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Rationing Medicine Through Bureaucracy : Authorization Restrictions in Medicare

Brot-Goldberg, Zarek C.; Burn, Samantha; Layton, Timothy; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

High administrative costs in U.S. health care have provoked concern among policymakers over potential waste, but many of these costs are generated by managed care policies that trade off bureaucratic costs against reductions in moral hazard. We study this trade-off for prior authorization...

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Revisiting the connection between state Medicaid expansions and adult mortality

Courtemanche, Charles; Jones, Jordan; Koumpias, Antonios M. - 2022

This paper examines the impact of Medicaid expansions to parents and childless adults on adult mortality. Specifically, we evaluate the long-run effects of eight state Medicaid expansions from 1994 through 2005 on all-cause, healthcare-amenable, non-healthcareamenable, and HIV-related mortality...

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Pandemic-Era Changes to Medicaid Enrollment and Funding : Implications for Future Policy and Research

Dague, Laura; Ukert, Benjamin D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The COVID-19 related public health emergency led to federal legislation that changed the landscape of Medicaid coverage for low-income people in the United States. Beginning in 2020, policy responses led to a surge in Medicaid enrollment due to federal rules preventing Medicaid disenrollment,...

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In-Kind Welfare Benefits and Reincarceration Risk : Evidence from Medicaid

Burns, Marguerite; Dague, Laura - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Most of the 600,000 adults returning to the community from state and federal prisons annually in the U.S. carry substantial debt, have low income and low education, and limited formal employment prior to entering prison. Upon reentry, they face financial hardship, high rates of morbidity and...

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Access to Health Insurance and Social Security Claiming : Evidence from Medicaid Expansion

Welch, Tyler Q. - 2023

When to claim Social Security benefits is an important financial decision for seniors, and Medicaid expansion provides new incentives with which to study claiming. Expansion could ultimately delay or hasten claiming, depending on employment changes and income-driven incentives. Within those...

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The Affordable Care Act's Medicaid Expansion Is Shifting Resources away from Low-Income Children

Blahous, Charles; Sigaud, Liam - 2022

In this study, we find that Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is generally associated in expansion states with a shift of program financial resources away from children toward nonaged nondisabled adults. We examine Medicaid expenditures per capita for beneficiary categories...

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Medicaid and Long-Term Care : The Effects of Penalizing Strategic Asset Transfers

Liu, Junhao - 2020

Medicaid provides a critical source of insurance for long-term care, and individuals may strategically offload assets (typically to children) to meet the means-tested eligibility requirement. In this paper, we quantify the extent of such behavior using variation in the penalty for improper...

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The effects of access to health insurance for informally employed individuals in Peru

Bernal, Noelia; Carpio, Miguel A.; Klein, Tobias J. - 2014

Many developing countries have recently increased health insurance coverage at a large scale. While it is commonly believed that this has positive effects, to date, it is not well understood through which channels health insurance coverage contributes to the well-being of individuals. More...

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The effects of private versus public health insurance on health and labor market outcomes

Dauth, Christine - 2021

Deutschland), stellt sich die Frage, ob die Art der Krankenversicherung die Arbeitsmarktkarrieren der Versicherten beeinflusst …. Wir untersuchen, ob der Wechsel von der gesetzlichen in die private Krankenversicherung bestimmte Gesundheits- und … langfristigen Einfluss der Art der Krankenversicherung auf lange Krankheitsepisoden oder den Arbeitsmarkterfolg von Beschäftigten …

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The value of health insurance during a crisis : effects of Medicaid implementation on pandemic influenza mortality

Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R.; Wang, Xiao - 2020

This paper studies how better access to public health insurance affects infant mortality during pandemics. Our analysis combines cross-state variation in mandated eligibility for Medicaid with two influenza pandemics - the 1957-58 "Asian Flu" pandemic and the 1968-69 "Hong Kong Flu" - that...

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