A key test of a political system is its capacity to solve important societal problems. Few policy areas in the U.S. are more problem-ridden than health care. Medical care is expensive and wasteful, and the quality often falls short of best practice. One idea to improve health care is to...

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) allows state variation in implementing health reform. Critical to a stable health insurance market under reform is the use of risk adjustment to share risks across insurance plans. The ACA requires states to implement risk adjustment, but a California-specific risk...

This study was designed to examine the perspectives and concerns of California healthcare policymakers and stakeholders about the upcoming expansion of Medicaid. Key California stakeholders show general support for the expansion of Medicaid, with concerns about the cost to implement expansion,...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act expands Medicaid and in-troduces health insurance subsidies, thereby changing work incentives for single mothers. To undertake an ex ante policy evaluation of the employment effects of the PPACA, I structurally estimate a model of labor supply and...