Labor mobility and the Affordable Care Act: Heterogeneous impacts of the preexisting conditions provision.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) preexisting conditions provision ensures that insurance companies can no longer deny coverage, charge higher premiums, or exclude coverage due to a preexisting health condition. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of the provision on labor mobil...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Policy Analysis & Management Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 157 - 192 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
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