T M Selden

..Our results provide evidence regarding the distribution of tax subsidies and net benefits under a range of scenarios that we believe bound the true incidence of employer premium contributions...

..The public sector accounted for 56.1 percent of health spending within the civilian noninstitutionalized population. Our analysis highlights this sector's role in financing the care of seniors and people in poor health...

..Our results strengthen the benefit-cost argument against implementing rollbacks in SCHIP...

..Nevertheless, we find evidence of dramatic improvements in program participation, reflecting the success of efforts to improve outreach, simplify enrollment, and increase retention...

..We also examine indicators for ambulatory visits, well-child visits, dental visits, emergency room use, and inpatient hospital stays...

..Our results also suggest that implementing income-based caps on family spending can help address the burden of high spending for low-income families...

..A range of health expenditure burden measures are computed, with and without tax subsidies, showing the impact that tax subsidies have on both the prevalence and magnitude of high health care spending burdens among the nonelderly...

..We examine burdens for this population using data from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey (NMES) and the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)...

..We adjusted the NHA for differences in included populations and types of services covered, finding a much smaller difference between MEPS and a comparably-defined NHA...

..To examine the within-year concentration of family health care and the resulting exposure of families to short periods of high expenditure burdens...

..We present per worker tax-subsidy estimates and an analysis of insurance incidence by establishment characteristics...

..The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey provides nationally representative information on preventative care for children, combining visit-level data over a 2-year period with a rich array of socioeconomic and health status measures...

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..Our estimates also raise concerns about equity, insofar as those who stand to lose the most tend to be poorer and in families with infant children...

..We also examine the impact of potential changes in SCHIP income thresholds--both an expansion and a rollback--and estimate the number and characteristics of the children potentially affected...

..Indeed, a capped premium subsidy may mitigate adverse selection without creating incentives for excessive coverage...

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..Most of the burden was due to other medical conditions and lower average incomes among families with mental health problems...

..Families of workers who decline coverage represent a substantial share of the uninsured and publicly-insured population in the United States...

..Associated estimates of SCHIP crowd-out had wide confidence intervals and were sensitive to estimation strategy...

..In addition, we present family-level elasticities that allow for joint decision-making in two-worker families...

..No single test is likely to be definitive in this rapidly-evolving area of econometric research; however, our results help to mitigate concern that panel data analyses of national health care expenditures are misspecified...

..We argue that while formal risk adjustment is rare, employers commonly use strategies that accomplish some of the same objectives at less cost...

..This article compares MEPS and NHEA expenditure estimates for 2002 and discusses the differences. When MEPS and the NHEA are adjusted to be on a consistent basis, their expenditure estimates differ by 13.8 percent...

..Comparison of our linear, nonlinear, and nonparametric results suggests researchers may face a trade-off between robustness and precision when selecting among decomposition methodologies for discrete outcomes...