Health insurance, medical debt, and financial well-being

Benedic Ippolito, Michael Batty and Christa Gibbs
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Benedic Ippolito: American Enterprise Institute
Michael Batty: Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Christa Gibbs: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

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Abstract: We use credit reports, survey data, and two natural experiments that increase health insurance coverage—Medicare eligibility and the Affordable Care Act's Under 26 provision—to study the financial protection provided by health insurance.

Keywords: Affordable Care Act Obamacare; debt; economics; Health Care Policy; Medicare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-06
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