ArticleInternational journal of health economics and management2021
Impacts of insurance expansion on health cost, health access, and health behaviors: evidence from the medicaid expansion in the US.
Article in International journal of health economics and management, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- The causal effects of mandatory health insurance coverage expansion in Switzerland.International journal of health economics and management · 2025Article
- Evaluating catastrophic health expenditures among patients with long bone fractures in Ghana's major teaching hospitals: a hospital-based analysis.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Medicaid can and should play an active role in advancing health equity.Health services research · 2022Article
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Abstract
Expansion of subsidized health insurance may result in both safer and riskier health behavior and outcomes. While having insurance lowers cost barriers to receive both usual and preventive care, the lower potential cost from adverse health events may also promote risky behavior. In this paper, I exploit expansion in the Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act to estimate the impact of insurance expansion on health outcomes and behaviors for low-income individuals in the US. I find that expansion of coverage has significantly lowered cost and increased access, particularly among minority populations, but has had no significant impact on preventive health behaviors. At the same time, I also find no evidence of moral hazard or increase risky behavior like smoking and drinking among residents of expansion states.
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