New Health Insurance Findings from K. Liu and Co-Researchers Reported (Insuring against health shocks: Health insurance and household choices)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- Researchers detail new data in Health Insurance. According to news reporting out of Berlin, Germany, by VerticalNews editors, the research stated, "This paper provides empirical evidence on the role of public health insurance in mitigating adverse outcomes associated with health shocks."

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research, "Exploiting the rollout of a universal health insurance program in rural China, I find that total household income and consumption are fully insured against health shocks even without access to health insurance. Household labor supply is an important insurance mechanism against health shocks."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "Access to health insurance helps households to maintain investment in children's human capital during negative health shocks, which suggests that one benefit of health insurance could arise from reducing the use of costly smoothing mechanisms."

For more information on this research see: Insuring against health shocks: Health insurance and household choices. Journal of Health Economics, 2016;46():16-32. 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 - www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-health-economics/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting K. Liu, IZA, Berlin, Germany.

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