| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| Does health insurance and seeing the doctor keep you out of the hospital? | |
| Robert Kaestner; Anthony Lo Sasso | |
| 发表日期 | 2011-09-13 |
| 出处 | American Enterprise Institute |
| 出版年 | 2011 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Read the full text of this paper as a PDF The underlying logic of these two quotes is consistent with most people’s intuition, which is that health insurance lowers the cost of medical care services and encourages consumers to obtain more timely and appropriate care from primary care doctors. In turn, this greater use of primary care services keeps people healthier and out of emergency rooms and hospitals. Moreover, the belief that health insurance and the increased use of primary care associated with it leads to fewer hospitalizations has played an important role in the recent health care reform debate, as illustrated by the quote from Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Indeed, increased access to primary care is emphasized in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which includes several programs to expand the supply and use of primary care services (Abrams et al., 2011). While it is plausible that health insurance and greater use of primary care can reduce emergency room use and hospitalization, there is a substantial amount of empirical evidence that is inconsistent with this hypothesis. For example, a recent study by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that those who are uninsured are no more likely to use the emergency room than those with health insurance (Garcia et al., 2010). A similar conclusion was reached by Newton et al. (2008) who reviewed 127 studies that examined correlates of use of emergency department services. Robert Kaestner is a visiting scholar at AEI. Anthony Lo Sasso is a professor Health Policy and Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago. |
| 主题 | Health Care |
| 标签 | health insurance |
| URL | https://www.aei.org/research-products/working-paper/does-health-insurance-and-seeing-the-doctor-keep-you-out-of-the-hospital/ |
| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/207131 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Robert Kaestner,Anthony Lo Sasso. Does health insurance and seeing the doctor keep you out of the hospital?. 2011. |
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| Kaestner.pdf（689KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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