What Does (Formal) Health Insurance Do, and for Whom?

© 2018 by Annual Reviews. All rights reserved. Health insurance confers benefits to the previously uninsured, including improvements in health, reductions in out-of-pocket spending, and reduced medical debt. However, because the nominally uninsured pay only a small share of their medical expenses, h...

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Main Authors: Finkelstein, Amy, Mahoney, Neale, Notowidigdo, Matthew J
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Annual Reviews 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/135798