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Take-Up of Public Insurance and Crowd-out of Private Insurance Under Recent CHIP Expansions to Higher Income Children

Year: 2011

Type: report

Abstract: We analyze the effects of states' expansions of CHIP eligibility to children in higher income families during 2002-2009 on take-up of public coverage, crowd-out of private coverage, and rates of uninsurance.Our results indicate these expansions were associated with limited uptake of public coverage and only a two percentage point reduction in the uninsurance rate among these children.Because not all of the take-up of public insurance among eligible children is accounted for by children who transfer from being uninsured to having public insurance, our results suggest that there may be some crowd-out of private insurance coverage; the upper bound crowd-out rate we calculate is 46 percent.

Source: National Bureau of Economic Research

DOI: 10.3386/w17658

Authors: Carole Roan Gresenz, Sarah Edgington, Miriam Laugesen, José Escarce

Institutions: RAND Corporation, University of California, Los Angeles, Columbia University

Language: English

Topic: Healthcare Policy and Management

Subfield: Economics and Econometrics

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: No poverty, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

OpenAlex ID: W2890323732

Cites: 3

Cited by: 6

Related to: 10