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The health conditions and the health care consumption of the uninsured
This paper investigates the difference in the health conditions and the health care consumption of uninsured individuals as compared to individuals with private insurance, using a nationally representative data set of inpatient hospital admissions from the US. In line with the previous literature, o...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5142170/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27924584 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13561-016-0137-z |
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description | This paper investigates the difference in the health conditions and the health care consumption of uninsured individuals as compared to individuals with private insurance, using a nationally representative data set of inpatient hospital admissions from the US. In line with the previous literature, our results indicate that uninsured individuals are, on average, in worse health conditions. However, if we compare individuals within the same diagnosis category, the uninsured are actually healthier, with a lower number of chronic conditions and a lower risk of mortality. This indicates that the uninsured are admitted to the hospital only for more serious conditions. In addition, our results show that uninsured individuals consume less health care. In particular, conditional on being admitted to a hospital and controlling for health conditions, the uninsured have lower total charges, fewer procedures, and a higher mortality rate. |
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spelling | pubmed-51421702016-12-23 The health conditions and the health care consumption of the uninsured Castaneda, Marco A. Saygili, Meryem Health Econ Rev Research This paper investigates the difference in the health conditions and the health care consumption of uninsured individuals as compared to individuals with private insurance, using a nationally representative data set of inpatient hospital admissions from the US. In line with the previous literature, our results indicate that uninsured individuals are, on average, in worse health conditions. However, if we compare individuals within the same diagnosis category, the uninsured are actually healthier, with a lower number of chronic conditions and a lower risk of mortality. This indicates that the uninsured are admitted to the hospital only for more serious conditions. In addition, our results show that uninsured individuals consume less health care. In particular, conditional on being admitted to a hospital and controlling for health conditions, the uninsured have lower total charges, fewer procedures, and a higher mortality rate. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5142170/ /pubmed/27924584 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13561-016-0137-z Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Research Castaneda, Marco A. Saygili, Meryem The health conditions and the health care consumption of the uninsured |
title | The health conditions and the health care consumption of the uninsured |
title_full | The health conditions and the health care consumption of the uninsured |
title_fullStr | The health conditions and the health care consumption of the uninsured |
title_full_unstemmed | The health conditions and the health care consumption of the uninsured |
title_short | The health conditions and the health care consumption of the uninsured |
title_sort | health conditions and the health care consumption of the uninsured |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5142170/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27924584 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13561-016-0137-z |
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