The recent nation-wide health reform --- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or simply ACA --- drastically altered the functioning of the health insurance industry in the US, opening many questions about how the system should be designed and regulated. While previous literature largely...

We study the dependence of health insurance availability of near-elderly inpatients in the United States with respect to their ages. We show that the likelihood that near-elderly inpatients are uninsured continuously declines until the early ages of 60 but the trend is reversed for the last few...