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Medicare Part D and its Effect on the Use of Prescription Drugs, Use of Other Health Care Services and Health of the Elderly
Kaestner, Robert - 2010
We examine the effect of gaining prescription drug insurance as a result of Medicare Part D on use of prescription drugs, use of other medical services, and health for a nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries. Given the heightened importance of prescription drugs for those...
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The Role of Government Reimbursement in Drug Shortages
Yurukoglu, Ali - 2012
Beginning in the mid-2000s, the incidence of drug shortages rose, especially for generic injectable drugs such as anesthetics and chemotherapy treatments. We examine whether reimbursement changes contributed to the shortages, focusing on a reduction in Medicare Part B reimbursement to providers...
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Health Care Centralization : The Health Impacts of Obstetric Unit Closures in the US
Fischer, Stefanie; Royer, Heather; White, Corey D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Over the last few decades, health care services in the United States have become more centralized. We study how the loss of hospital-based obstetric units in over 400 rural counties affect maternal and infant health via a difference-in-differences design. We find that closures lead to...
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Impact of China's Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance on Health Care Expenditure and Health Outcomes
Huang, Feng - 2015
At the end of 1998, China launched a government-run mandatory insurance program, the Urban Employee Basic Medical … Insurance (UEBMI), to replace the previous medical insurance system. Using the UEBMI reform in China as a natural experiment … the demand for health-care services. Using data from the 1991-2006 waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we find …
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The Largest Insurance Expansion in History : Saving One Million Lives Per Year in China
Gruber, Jonathan; Lin, Mengyun; Yi, Junjian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) rolled out in China from 2003-2008 provided insurance to 800 million rural … in life expectancy in China over this period. We confirm these mortality effects using micro-data on mortality, other …
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Fünf Jahre Agenda 2010
Zimmermann, Klaus F. (ed.) - 2008
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The Impact of the Affordable Care Act : Evidence from California's Hospital Sector
Duggan, Mark - 2019
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) authorized the largest expansion of public health insurance in the U.S. since the mid-1960s. We exploit ACA-induced changes in the discontinuity in coverage at age 65 using a regression discontinuity based design to examine effects of the expansion on health...
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The Effect of Health Insurance on Mortality : Power Analysis and What We Can Learn from the Affordable Care Act Coverage Expansions
Black, Bernard - 2019
A large literature examines the effect of health insurance on mortality. We contribute by emphasizing two challenges in using the Affordable Care Act (ACA)'s quasi-experimental variation to study mortality. The first is non-parallel pretreatment trends. Rising mortality in Medicaid non-expansion...
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The Affordable Care Act’s Effects on Patients, Providers and the Economy : What We’ve Learned So Far
Gruber, Jonathan - 2019
As we approach the tenth anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act, it is important to reflect on what has been learned about the impacts of this major reform. In this paper we review the literature on the impacts of the ACA on patients, providers and the economy. We find strong...
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The Impact of the ACA on Insurance Coverage Disparities After Four Years
Courtemanche, Charles J. - 2019
The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impact of the major components of the ACA (Medicaid expansion, subsidized Marketplace plans, and insurance market reforms) on disparities in insurance coverage after four years. We use data from the 2011-2017 waves of the American Community Survey...
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