Tag Archives: Healthcare Costs

Does Privatized Health Insurance Benefit Patients or Producers? Evidence from Medicare Advantage

Posted on September 8, 2014 by ozidar

From Marika Cabral, Michael Geruso, and Neale Mahoney: The debate over privatizing Medicare stems from a fundamental disagreement about whether privatization would primarily generate consumer surplus for individuals or producer surplus for insurance companies and health care providers. This paper investigates … Continue reading →

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Mandate-Based Health Reform and the Labor Market: Evidence from the Massachusetts Reform

Posted on June 11, 2014 by ozidar

From Jonathan Kolstad and Amanda Kowalski: We model the labor market impact of the three key provisions of the recent Massachusetts and national “mandate-based” health reforms: individual and employer mandates and expansions in publicly-subsidized coverage. Using our model, we characterize the … Continue reading →

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More Insurers Lower Premiums: Evidence from Initial Pricing in the Health Insurance Marketplaces

Posted on May 19, 2014 by ozidar

From Leemore Dafny, Jonathan Gruber, and Christopher Ody: First-year insurer participation in the Health Insurance Marketplaces (HIMs) established by the Affordable Care Act is limited in many areas of the country. There are 3.9 participants, on (population-weighted) average, in the 395 … Continue reading →

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Does Medical Malpractice Law Improve Health Care Quality?

Posted on February 11, 2014 by ozidar

From Michael Frakes and Anupam Jena: Despite the fundamental role of deterrence in justifying a system of medical malpractice law, surprisingly little evidence has been put forth to date bearing on the relationship between medical liability forces on the one … Continue reading →

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Bargaining in the Shadow of a Giant: Medicare’s Influence on Private Payment Systems

Posted on October 7, 2013 by ozidar

From Jeff Clemens and Joshua Gottlieb: We analyze Medicare’s influence on private payments for physicians’ services. Using a large administrative change in payments for surgical procedures relative to other medical services, we find that private payments follow Medicare’s lead. On average, a … Continue reading →

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Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending

Posted on August 19, 2013 by ozidar

From David Cutler, Jonathan Skinner, Ariel Dora Stern, and David Wennberg: There is considerable controversy about the causes of regional variations in healthcare expenditures. We use vignettes from patient and physician surveys, linked to Medicare expenditures at the level of … Continue reading →

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Incomes & the Cost of a Colonoscopy across US Cities

Posted on June 6, 2013 by ozidar

I’m a bit late to posting this since I had my qualifying exams on Monday, but I saw this map for the front page story of this Sunday’s NYTimes and thought it was interesting. It shows how much the cost … Continue reading →

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A Nice Profile of Leemore Dafny & Her Work on Competition in Health Insurance Markets

Posted on May 30, 2013 by ozidar

She […] determine[d] that insurers charge more profitable businesses higher premiums, a relationship strongest in geographic markets with a small number of carriers. Beyond higher costs, scant competition also probably causes “a lack of innovation,” she said. She published her … Continue reading →

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From the Archives: The Promise of Progressive Cost Consciousness in Health-care Reform

Posted on May 29, 2013 by ozidar

From Jason Furman in April 2007: This paper proposes a template for a progressive cost sharing plan that would require typical families to pay half of their health costs until they reached 7.5 percent of their income; low-income families would not … Continue reading →

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Links I liked: Health Premium Increases, Immigration, and Closemindedness

Posted on April 25, 2013 by ozidar

1. With health law looming, one large insurer wants a 25 percent premium hike by Sarah Kliff 2. 5 ways immigration reform will help low wage workers by Ezra Klein 3. Why well informed people are also close minded by … Continue reading →

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