The 2020 election, uniting control of the political branches in the Democratic party, opened up a realistic possibility of immigration reform. Reform of the immigration system is long overdue, but in pursuing such reform, Congress should cast a broad net and recognize the health policies...

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), enacted in 2010 is an essential milestone for improving the health care coverage of American citizens. This article explores the effects of the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act on the racial diversity of the admissions of nursing home residents in...

This study estimates the financial burden of healthcare in Korea using the National Survey of Tax and Benefit panel data from 2009 to 2019. The sum of a household's premium and out-of-pocket medical expenses defines the household financial burden of healthcare. We find that the household...

Public health insurance schemes in China are mostly location-based. This makes it challenging for patients to claim reimbursement for medical expenses incurred outside of the cities or provinces where they have health insurance coverage. These patients are comparable to out-of-network patients...

This country report provides a description of the emergence of a health care system under public responsibility in Vietnam. The inception of the health care system refers to the first legislation stipulating entitlements to medical care. The report also includes a brief description of major...

The role of health in retirement should depend on the labor demand side. In particular, job requirement is heterogeneous and health is multidimensional. I first document a novel fact that physical and cognitive health, respectively, are more associated with retirement when required by the...

Over the last few decades, health care services in the United States have become more geographically centralized. We study how the loss of hospital-based obstetric units in over 400 counties affect maternal and infant health via a difference-in-differences design. We find that closures lead...

We study the effect of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion on coverage dynamics following the sudden loss of coverage from an employer plan. This analysis leverages novel administrative data capturing monthly health insurance coverage for the U.S. population. Using these data, we...

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...