| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w26292 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 26292 |
| Does Medicare Coverage Improve Cancer Detection and Mortality Outcomes? | |
| Rebecca Mary Myerson; Reginald Tucker-Seeley; Dana Goldman; Darius N. Lakdawalla | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-09-30 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Medicare is a large government health insurance program in the United States which covers about 60 million people. This paper analyzes the effects of Medicare insurance on health for a group of people in urgent need of medical care: people with cancer. We used a regression discontinuity design to assess impacts of near-universal Medicare insurance at age 65 on cancer detection and outcomes, using population-based cancer registries and vital statistics data. Our analysis focused on the three tumor sites for which screening is recommended both before and after age 65: breast, colorectal, and lung cancer. At age 65, cancer detection increased by 72 per 100,000 population among women and 33 per 100,000 population among men; cancer mortality also decreased by 9 per 100,000 population for women but did not significantly change for men. In a placebo check, we found no comparable changes at age 65 in Canada. This study provides the first evidence to our knowledge that near-universal access to Medicare at age 65 is associated with improvements in population-level cancer mortality and provides new evidence on the differences in the impact of health insurance by gender. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Education |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26292 |
| 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/583981 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Rebecca Mary Myerson,Reginald Tucker-Seeley,Dana Goldman,et al. Does Medicare Coverage Improve Cancer Detection and Mortality Outcomes?. 2019. |
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| w26292.pdf（1194KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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