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| DC Field | | Value | | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | | Ehrlich, Isaac | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Yin, Yong | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2012-10-23 | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2012-12-07T16:56:30Z | | - |
| dc.date.available | | 2012-12-07T16:56:30Z | | - |
| dc.date.issued | | 2012 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/67311 | | - |
| dc.description.abstract | | The problem of the uninsured - those eschewing the purchase of health insurance policies - cannot be fully understood without considering informal alternatives to market insurance called self-insurance and self-protection, including the publicly and charitably-financed safety-net health care system. This paper tackles the problem of the uninsured by formulating a full-insurance paradigm that includes all 4 measures of insurance as interacting components, and analyzing their interdependencies. We apply both a baseline and extended versions of the model through calibrated simulations to estimate the degree to which these non-market alternatives can account for the fraction of the non-elderly adults who are uninsured, and estimate their behavioral and policy ramifications. Our results indicate that policy analyses that do not consider the role of self-efforts to avoid health losses can grossly distort the success of the ACA mandate to insure the uninsured and to improve the health and welfare outcomes of the previously uninsured. | | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | | eng | | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | IZA Bonn | | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | | Discussion Paper Series, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 6920 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | G22 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | H42 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | I13 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | I28 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.ddc | | 330 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | health insurance | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | health care | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | uninsured | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | self-insurance | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | self-protection | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Krankenversicherung | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Gesundheitswesen | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Selbstversicherung | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Wohltätigkeit | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | USA | | en_US |
| dc.title | | The problem of the uninsured | | en_US |
| dc.type | | Working Paper | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.ppn | | 728348535 | | en_US |
| dc.rights | | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | | en_US |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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