When evaluating the welfare effects of public health insurance reform, I find that the price elasticity of medical demand is crucial. First, reforms that increase copayments improve future generations’ welfare more in the calibrated economy with elastic demand than in the counterfactual economy with ...
Analysis: Misapplication of welfare reform law by state agencies may be the cause of health insurance coverage loss among the poorNOAH ADAMS
8Theliteraturediscussesdifferentfactorsaffectingtake-upofsocialprograms,includinglevelsanddurationofbenefits(moregenerousbenefitsgrantedforlongerperiodsleadtohighertake-up),informationaboutaprogram’srulesandapplicationprocedure,delaysanduncertaintiesabouttheapplicationoutcomes,andsocialandpsychologicalfactorssuchasstigma(Hernanz...
ACA; wellness program design and implementation; cafeteria plans; COBRA; ERISA; HIPAA privacy, security, and breach rules; health savings accounts (HSAs); and general plan administration and tax issues for employer-sponsored health and welfare benefits and individual and group health insurance ...
The latter paper in particular explains the positive correlation between marginal tax rates (used as a proxy for social preferences toward redistribution) across different countries and the extent of public provision of health insurance. Fleurbaey’s paper in fact proposes to maximin the lowest level...
Welfare Criterion The basis by which one measures the benefits of a change against its drawbacks. For example, one may elect to make a change if everyone gains and no one loses, or if the number or the quality of the gains outpaces the number or quality of the losses. There is no sin...
Among the more significant problems with the Census’s measure are that: 1) it excludes taxes, transfers, and compensation like employer-provided health insurance; and 2) it is based on surveys rather than data. Even if precisely measured, income data exclude important determinants ...
How Did Welfare Reform Affect the Health Insurance Coverage of Women and Children? Objective. To measure the change in U.S. women and children's health insurance coverage as a result of welfare reform (i.e. the creation of Temporary Assis... J Cawley,M Schroeder,KI Simon - 《Health ...
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