Public Health Insurance and Medical Spending: Evidence from the ACA Medicaid Expansion
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Keywords
public health insurance; risk protection; MVPF; Medicaid; out-of-pocket expenditures; Affordable Care Act;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D04 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Policy: Formulation; Implementation; Evaluation
- D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
- H44 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Publicly Provided Goods: Mixed Markets
- I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HEA-2021-02-08 (Health Economics)
- NEP-IAS-2021-02-08 (Insurance Economics)
- NEP-PBE-2021-02-08 (Public Economics)
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