scholarly journals Does Public Health Insurance Reduce Labor Market Flexibility or Encourage the Underground Economy? Evidence from Spain and the United States

10.3386/w4402 ◽  
1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara De La Rica ◽  
Thomas Lemieux
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Underground Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Health Insurance ◽  
Labor Market Flexibility

scholarly journals Delivering Public Health Insurance Through Private Plan Choice in the United States

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Gruber
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Private Insurance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Health Insurance ◽  
Market Failures ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Government

The United States has seen a sea change in the way that publicly financed health insurance coverage is provided to low-income, elderly, and disabled enrollees. When programs such as Medicare and Medicaid were introduced in the 1960s, the government directly reimbursed medical providers for the care that they provided, through a classic “single payer system.” Since the mid-1980s, however, there has been an evolution towards a model where the government subsidizes enrollees who choose among privately provided insurance options. In the United States, privatized delivery of public health insurance appears to be here to stay, with debates now focused on how much to expand its reach. Yet such privatized delivery raises a variety of thorny issues. Will choice among private insurance options lead to adverse selection and market failures in privatized insurance markets? Can individuals choose appropriately over a wide range of expensive and confusing plan options? Will a privatized approach deliver the promised increases in delivery efficiency claimed by advocates? What policy mechanisms have been used, or might be used, to address these issues? A growing literature in health economics has begun to make headway on these questions. In this essay, I discuss that literature and the lessons for both economics more generally and health care policymakers more specifically.

PERCENTAGE OF UNINSURED CHILDREN HAS INCREASED

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 88 (5) ◽  
pp. 1051-1051
Author(s):  
STUDENT
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Health Care Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Health Insurance ◽  
Care Policy ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Uninsured Children

The proportion of children in the United States without private or public health insurance increased from roughly 13 percent to 18 percent between 1977 and 1987, according to a new study by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR). The growth in the proportion of uninsured children in poor and low-income families over the decade was even more dramatic—it rose from 21 percent to 31 percent.

scholarly journals Geographic variation in health insurance coverage : United States, 2019

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin A. Cohen ◽  
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Emily P. Terlizzi ◽  
Amy E. Cha ◽  
Michael E. Martinez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Geographic Variation ◽  
Private Health Insurance ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
Health Insurance Coverage ◽  
Public Health Insurance ◽  
National Estimates ◽  
State Regional

This report presents state, regional, and national estimates of the percentage of persons who were uninsured, had private health insurance coverage, and had public health insurance coverage in 2019.

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