全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Childhood Medicaid Coverage and Later Life Health Care Utilization

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w20929
来源ID	Working Paper 20929
	Childhood Medicaid Coverage and Later Life Health Care Utilization
	Laura R. Wherry; Sarah Miller; Robert Kaestner; Bruce D. Meyer
发表日期	2015-02-09
出版年	2015
语种	英语
摘要	Policy-makers have argued that providing public health insurance coverage to the uninsured lowers long-run costs by reducing the need for expensive hospitalizations and emergency department visits later in life. In this paper, we provide evidence for such a phenomenon by exploiting a legislated discontinuity in the cumulative number of years a child is eligible for Medicaid based on date of birth. We find that having more years of Medicaid eligibility in childhood is associated with fewer hospitalizations and emergency department visits in adulthood for blacks. Our effects are particularly pronounced for hospitalizations and emergency department visits related to chronic illnesses and those of patients living in low-income neighborhoods. Furthermore, we find evidence suggesting that these effects are larger in states where the difference in the number of Medicaid-eligible years across the cutoff birthdate is greater. Calculations suggest that lower rates of hospitalizations and emergency department visits during one year in adulthood offset between 3 and 5 percent of the initial costs of expanding Medicaid.
主题	Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Education
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w20929
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578603
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Laura R. Wherry,Sarah Miller,Robert Kaestner,et al. Childhood Medicaid Coverage and Later Life Health Care Utilization. 2015.