People may have imperfect information about their health status and thus make suboptimal decisions in insurance …-economic status and poorer health are relatively less likely to realize how unhealthy they are and this overconfidence is associated … with no insurance participation. Accurate health information provided through physical examinations induces relatively …

elderly mortality by 2.2 percent annually. This was driven primarily by a reduction in cardiovascular mortality, the leading … implementation of Medicare Part D match the mortality patterns we observe. We calculate that the value of the mortality reduction is …

A recent paper estimates the effects of Taiwan’s National Health Insurance (NHI) on the elderly and concludes that NHI … greatly increased the medical care utilization of the elderly but did not reduce their mortality. Using more recent and more … accurate mortality data of the same group of elderly, this note re-estimates the NHI effect on mortality and finds that the …