1. Does Medicare Reduce Medical Debt?
- Author
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John H. Goddeeris and Kyle J. Caswell
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Actuarial science ,Exploit ,business.industry ,Health Policy ,media_common.quotation_subject ,education ,Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,humanities ,Debt ,Health care ,Financial strain ,Health insurance ,sense organs ,Business ,health care economics and organizations ,media_common - Abstract
We study the effect of Medicare on financial strain, measured by annual changes in medical debt in collections, using credit bureau data. We exploit the program’s eligibility age at 65 and ...
- Published
- 2020
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