Health Insurance, Medical Care, and Health Outcomes: A Model of Elderly Health Dynamics.
Prescription drug coverage creates a change in medical care consumption, beyond standard moral hazard, arising both from the differential cost-sharing and the relative effectiveness of different types of care. We model the dynamic supplemental health insurance decisions of Medicare beneficiaries, th...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Human Resources Vol. 44; no. 1; pp. 47 - 115 |
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University of Wisconsin Press
Winter2009
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