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I'm an Economics Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley focusing on public finance topics at the intersection of labor economics and macroeconomics. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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Tag Archives: Medicare
Short post: Good News, Bad News
Good News: Obama taps Brian Deese for Deputy Budget Director Bad News: HHS scraps proposed cuts to private Medicare plans
Regional Variation in Health Insurance Premia, Wages, & Health Costs
While I’m certainly not the first to point these features out, it is astounding to look at how quickly health insurance premia have grown overtime, especially when you compare this growth to that of average wages, total Medicare spending per … Continue reading
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Tagged Healthcare, Healthcare Costs, Medicaid, Medicare, Regional Variation in Health Costs, Wages
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The Effect of U.S. Health Insurance Expansions on Medical Innovation
Here’s an interesting recent paper by Jeff Clemens on the effect of health insurance expansions on medical innovation. Abstract: I study the effect of health insurance expansions on medical innovation. Innovation by practitioners creates important roles for local patient flows and payment … Continue reading
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Tagged Health Costs, Health Insurance, Healthcare Costs, Jeff Clemens, Medicaid, Medicare, patents
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The Medicare Eligibility Age: Demographics and Medical Care Spending
In contrast to Social Security Reform, we do not find a large effect of potential increases in the age of eligibility on the long-term ability to finance medical spending. This is partly because the oldest old spend much more on … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Auerbach, David Culter, Demographics, Fiscal Cliff, Fiscal Policy, Government, Healthcare, inequality, Louise Sheiner, Medicare, Ronald Lee, Spending
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The Medicare Eligibility Age: Impacts on Health Behavior and Outcomes
Since many people are talking about raising the medicare eligibility age (e.g. Maya MacGuineas vs. Aaron E. Carroll, Matt Yglesias, Jared Bernstein, etc), I thought I’d highlight an AER paper by David Card, Carlos Dobkin, and Nicole Maestas that uses Medicare eligibility rules (i.e. … Continue reading
The Growing Burden of Payroll Taxes
Here’s a column on reforming the payroll tax that I wrote in NYTimes Economix today: Payroll taxes and corporate income taxes accounted for an equal share of federal tax revenue in 1969. By 2009, payroll taxes generated more than six times as much … Continue reading
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Tagged Baumol's cost, Corporate Income Tax, debt, Disability Insurance, Economic Policy, Fiscal Cliff, Healthcare, income taxes, inequality, Jobs, Medicare, Middle Class, NYTimes, Payroll tax, Progressivity, Revenue, skills, social insurance, social security, Stimulus, Tax Cuts for Whom, Tax Reform, Taxes, technology
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