IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/28256.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Public and Private Options in Practice: The Military Health System

Author

Listed:
  • Michael D. Frakes
  • Jonathan Gruber
  • Timothy Justicz

Abstract

Recent debates over health care reform, including in the context of the Military Health System (MHS) and Veterans Health Administration, highlight the dispute between public and private provision of health care services. Using novel data on childbirth claims from the MHS and drawing on the combination of plausibly exogenous patient moves and heterogeneity across bases in the availability of base hospitals, we identify the impact of receiving obstetrical care on versus off military bases. We find evidence that off-base care is associated with slightly greater resource intensity, but also notably better outcomes, suggesting marginal efficiency gains from care privatization.

Suggested Citation

  • Michael D. Frakes & Jonathan Gruber & Timothy Justicz, 2020. "Public and Private Options in Practice: The Military Health System," NBER Working Papers 28256, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:28256
    Note: AG EH LS PE POL
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.nber.org/papers/w28256.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • H1 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government
    • H51 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Health
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:28256. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/nberrus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.