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- Title
How Do Public Health Expansions Vary by Income Strata? Evidence from Illinois' All Kids Program.
- Authors
Lo, James
- Abstract
This paper examines how income levels affected the substitution of public health insurance for private health coverage under expansions of Illinois' State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Building on a technique developed by Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003), I estimate that among children whose family incomes are between 200% and 300% of the federal poverty level (FPL), 35% of those covered by SCHIP would have retained private coverage in the absence of SCHIP. Significant substitution also appears between 300% and 400% FPL, but surprisingly I find evidence that the introduction of SCHIP caused an increase in private health insurance coverage for those with family incomes between 400% and 500% FPL.
- Subjects
ILLINOIS; MEDICAID; ATTRIBUTION (Social psychology); COMPUTER simulation; CONCEPTUAL structures; STATISTICAL correlation; HEALTH care reform; HEALTH services accessibility; INCOME; INSURANCE; POVERTY; PRIVATE sector; ELIGIBILITY (Social aspects); PREDICTIVE validity; CONTROL groups; STATISTICAL models
- Publication
Inquiry (00469580), 2013, Vol 50, Issue 1, p27
- ISSN
0046-9580
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5034/inquiryjrnl_50.01.06