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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) increased demand for healthcare across the U.S., but it is unclear … if or how the supply side has responded to meet this demand. In this paper, we take advantage of plausibly exogenous … geographical heterogeneity in the ACA in order to examine the response of the healthcare education sector to increased demand for …
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) increased demand for healthcare across the U.S., but it is unclear … if or how the supply side has responded to meet this demand. In this paper, we take advantage of plausibly exogenous … geographical heterogeneity in the ACA to examine the healthcare education sector's response to increased demand for healthcare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865563
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) increased demand for healthcare across the U.S., but it is unclear … if or how the supply side has responded to meet this demand. In this paper, we take advantage of plausibly exogenous … geographical heterogeneity in the ACA in order to examine the response of the healthcare education sector to increased demand for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863393
This paper examines, theoretically and empirically, how changes in the demand for health insurance and medical services … factors that increase coverage and hence demand for medical services in the non-Medicare population generate contemporaneous … increases in the demand for medical services in the non-Medicare population are not associated with increases in the total …
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Medical divorce occurs when couples split up so that one spouse's medical bills do not deplete the assets of the healthy spouse. It has not been studied in the economics literature, but it has been discussed by attorneys and widely reported in the media. We develop a model of medical divorce...
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Medical divorce occurs when couples split up so that one spouse's medical bills do not deplete the assets of the healthy spouse. It has not been studied in the economics literature, but it has been discussed by attorneys and widely reported in the media. We develop a model of medical divorce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828001
Firms often exploit loopholes in government contracts to boost revenues. The welfare consequences of this behavior depend on how firms use the marginal windfall dollar, yet little evidence exists to guide policymakers. This paper studies how hospitals allocated over $3 billion obtained from...
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Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax-funded, subsidized provision of health care through publicly operated facilities. This paper discusses two rationales for this transition. First, health insurance would boost...
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Medicaid to satisfy 'pent-up' demand, consuming care they would have otherwise consumed later under Medicare …
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