Dafny, Leemore; Ramanarayanan, Subramaniam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The majority of private health insurance in the U.S. is administered or issued by for-profit insurers, but little is known about how for-profit status affects outcomes. We find that plausibly exogenous increases in local for-profit market share induced by conversions of Blue Cross and Blue...