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The impact of health insurance on health.
TLDR
Solid answers to the multitude of important questions about how specific health insurance policy options may affect health seem likely to be forthcoming only with investment of substantial resources in social experiments.
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What Do We Really Know About Whether Health Insurance Affects Health
Insurance status and access to urgent ambulatory care follow-up appointments.
CONTEXT There is growing pressure to avoid hospitalizing emergency department patients who can be treated safely as outpatients, but this strategy depends on timely access to follow-up care. …
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Effect of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion on Emergency Department Visits: Evidence From State‐Level Emergency Department Databases
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Worker Sorting and the Risk of Death on the Job
This article examines worker sorting across occupations in response to the risk of death on the job. We use family structure as a proxy for willingness to trade safety for wages to test the…
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Recent Trends in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Coverage: are Bad Jobs Getting Worse?
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Who Pays for Health Insurance? Employee Contributions to Health Insurance Premiums
TLDR
It is concluded that while imperfect worker sorting on the basis of demand for health insurance does not explain all employee contributions, it may play a significant role in explaining why firms require contributions.
Take-Up of Medicare Part D: Results from the Health and Retirement Study
  • Helen Levy, D. Weir
  • Medicine, Political Science
    The journals of gerontology. Series B…
  • 1 January 2009
TLDR
For the most part, Medicare beneficiaries seem to have been able to make economically rational decisions about Part D enrollment despite the complexity of the program.
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Effect of the Affordable Care Act on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Insurance Coverage.
TLDR
The ACA has reduced racial/ethnic disparities in coverage, although substantial disparities remain and further increases in coverage will require Medicaid expansion by more states and improved program take-up in states that have already done so.
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Health Literacy and the Digital Divide Among Older Americans
TLDR
Low health literacy is associated with significantly less use of the Internet for health information among Americans aged 65 and older and web-based health interventions targeting older adults must address barriers to substantive use by individuals with low health literacy, or risk exacerbating the digital divide.
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