The Costs and Benefits of Medicaid in Old Age

John Bailey Jones, Eric Baird French () and Mariacristina De Nardi ()
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John Bailey Jones: University at Albany, SUNY

No 111, 2011 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: We study the costs and benefits of Medicaid in a model in which retired single people optimally choose consumption, medical spending and saving, while facing uncertainty about their health, lifespan and medical needs. We document Medicaid take-up rates by age, permanent income, and gender in the data. We show how well the model matches important features of the data and we analyze the degree of insurance provided by current programs. We finally compute the costs and benefits of the Medicaid program for people of different ages and lifetime resources.

Date: 2011
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