The effect of the state children's health insurance program on health insurance coverage [An article from: Journal of Health Economics]

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Release: 2004-09-01
Publisher: Elsevier
Binding: Digital
ISBN/ASIN: B000RQYIBY
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This paper presents the first national estimates of the effects of the SCHIP expansions on insurance coverage. Using CPS data on insurance coverage during the years 1996-2000, we estimate instrumental variables regressions of insurance coverage. Our regression results imply that 9% of children meeting income eligibility standards for SCHIP gained public insurance. While low, our estimates indicate that states were more successful in enrolling children in SCHIP than they were with prior Medicaid expansions that were focused on children just above the poverty line. Crowd-out of private health insurance was estimated to be nearly 50%, which is in line with estimates for the Medicaid expansions of the early Download The effect of the state children's health insurance program on health insurance coverage [An article from for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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