Measuring Health Insurance Benefits: The Case of People with Disabilities

Richard Burkhauser, Jeff Larrimore and Sean Lyons

No 21629, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Since 2012 the Congressional Budget Office has included an estimate of the market value of government-provided health insurance coverage in its measures of household income. We follow this practice for both public and private health insurance to capture the impact of greater access to government-provided health insurance for working-age people with disabilities, whose value rose in 2010 dollars from $11.7B in 1980 to $114.3B in 2012. We then consider the more general implications of incorporating estimates of the market price of insurance, equivalent to that provided by the government, into policy analyses in a post-Affordable Care Act world.

JEL-codes: D31 H24 I18 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-10
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Published as Burkhauser, Richard V., Jeff Larrimore and Sean Lyons. Forthcoming. “Measuring Health Insurance Benefits: The Case of People with Disabilities.” Contemporary Economic Policy.

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