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The Value of Health Insurance during a Crisis: Effects of Medicaid Implementation on Pandemic Influenza Mortality

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  • Karen Clay

    (Carnegie Mellon and NBER)

  • Joshua Lewis

    (Université de Montréal)

  • Edson Severnini

    (Carnegie Mellon, IZA, and NBER)

  • Xiao Wang

    (Hunan University)

Abstract

This paper studies how better access to public health insurance affects infant mortality during pandemics. The analysis combines cross-state variation in mandated eligibility for Medicaid with two influenza pandemics that arrived shortly before and after the program’s introduction in 1965. We find that better access to public health insurance in high-eligibility states substantially reduced pandemic infant mortality. The reductions in pandemic infant mortality are too large to be attributable solely to new Medicaid recipients, suggesting that expanded access to public health insurance helped mitigate disease transmission among the broader population.

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  • Karen Clay & Joshua Lewis & Edson Severnini & Xiao Wang, 2024. "The Value of Health Insurance during a Crisis: Effects of Medicaid Implementation on Pandemic Influenza Mortality," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 106(5), pages 1393-1402, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:restat:v:106:y:2024:i:5:p:1393-1402
    DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_01239
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