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Income and Health Care Consumption: Evidence From Mortgage Payment Shocks
ABSTRACT During the Great Recession, monetary stimulus had asymmetric impacts on mortgages with different interest rate structures, leading to a significant and unexpected reduction in mortgage payments for adjustable‐rate mortgage (ARM) borrowers, which in turn increased their disposable income.
Hong Lee, Deokrye Baek, Joseph R. Mason
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The Health Effects of Medicare for the Near-Elderly Uninsured [PDF]
We study how the trajectory of health for the near-elderly uninsured changes upon enrolling into Medicare at the age of 65. We find that Medicare increases the probability of the previously uninsured having excellent or very good health, decreases their ...
Daniel Polsky+6 more
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The Freedom to Spend Your Own Money on Medical Care: A Common Casualty of Universal Coverage [PDF]
Most people would agree that a patient should always be able to spend his own money on the health care services he desires. Yet that freedom is often threatened or denied when government tries to provide universal health insurance coverage, as in the U.S.
Kent Masterson Brown
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Measuring Frailty in Medicare Data: Development and Validation of a Claims-Based Frailty Index
Dae Hyun Kim+5 more
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Classifying the Integration of Healthcare Providers and Insurers
ABSTRACT The value‐based payment reform prompted by the Affordable Care Act has stimulated vertical integrations of healthcare providers and insurers. The consequences of these integrations may vary significantly depending on the markets and entities involved.
Xiaodan Liang, John Mullahy
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Prostate Cancer Care Before and After Medicare Eligibility. [PDF]
Prior studies suggest Medicare eligibility confers significant and substantial reductions in mortality and beneficial increases in health service utilization.
Huesch, Marco D, Ong, Michael K
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The Medicare End-Stage Renal Disease Program [PDF]
Norman G. Levinsky, Richard A. Rettig
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Insurer Size and Negotiated Hospital Prices: Insights From the Affordable Care Act in Arkansas
ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of insurer size in price negotiations between commercial health insurers and hospitals in the United States. The empirical analysis focuses on a dominant insurer in the Arkansas individual health insurance market that experienced a size increase due to a policy change.
Jee‐Hun Choi
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