Will Health Insurance Mandates Increase Coverage? Synthesizing Perspectives from Health, Tax, and Behavioral Economics: Working Paper 2010-05

David Auerbach, Janet Holtzblatt, Paul Jacobs and Alexandra Minicozzi

No 21600, Working Papers from Congressional Budget Office

Abstract: This paper provides an analytical framework for evaluating the effects of individual health insurance mandates on coverage. That framework draws from the literature in three disciplines—health economics, tax compliance, and behavioral economics—to identify the factors that affect people’s responses to health insurance mandates. The health economics literature examines how people value health insurance and how changes in its costs affect coverage. The tax compliance literature indicates that the probability of detection and people’s attitudes toward risk affect perceptions

Date: 2010-08-21
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