This paper examines the impact of health insurance expansion on medical liability costs using the case of the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Medicaid expansion. Medicaid expansion has increased the demand for medical services, but in doing so it may also have increased physicians' liability in...

Background In China, public medical insurance has expanded rapidly in the past 20 years. Many studies have discussed the benefts of medical insurance in improving residents' health and fnancial stability, and increasing the utilization of medical services. Less attention is paid to the efect of...

Chronic disease is a kind of health shock that most people cannot avoid, which will increase households' medical expenditure and probably decrease other consumptions. Health insurance is a formal mechanism against health shocks. Theoretically, the integration policy of rural and urban residents...