Findings from M. Levere and Co-Authors Provides New Data about Healthcare Economics (Contemporaneous and Long-term Effects of Children’s Public Health Insurance Expansions On Supplemental Security Income Participation)

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2019 MAY 31 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Investigators publish new report on Economics - Healthcare Economics. According to news reporting out of Princeton, United States, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “This study explores the interplay between two important public programs for vulnerable children: Medicaid and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. Children’s public health insurance eligibility increased dramatically during the late 1990s with the launch of the Children’s Health Insurance Program along with concurrent Medicaid expansions.”

Financial support for this research came from U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA), Disability Research Consortium.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research, “We use a measure of simulated eligibility as an exogenous source of variation in Medicaid generosity to identify the effects of the eligibility expansions on SSI outcomes. Though increases in eligibility for public health insurance did not affect contemporaneous youth SSI applications or awards on average, expansions in coverage significantly decreased both applications and awards in states where SSI recipients did not automatically receive Medicaid. We attribute the difference in findings to the higher transactions costs associated with entering Medicaid via SSI in such states.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “In the long-term, increased public insurance eligibility during childhood reduces young adult SSI applications to some extent, consistent with recent findings that Medicaid coverage in youth improves adult health and economic outcomes.”

For more information on this research see: Contemporaneous and Long-term Effects of Children’s Public Health Insurance Expansions On Supplemental Security Income Participation. Journal of Health Economics, 2019;64():80-92. Journal of Health Economics can be contacted at: Elsevier Science Bv, PO Box 211, 1000 Ae Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Journal of Health Economics - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-health-economics/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting M. Levere, Mathemat Policy Res, Pob 2393, Princeton, NJ 08543, United States. Additional authors for this research include S. Orzol, L. Leininger and N. Early.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2019.02.003. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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