High Out-Of-Pocket Health Care Spending By The Elderly
- 1 May 2003
- journal article
- Published by Health Affairs (Project Hope) in Health Affairs
- Vol. 22 (3) , 194-202
- https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.22.3.194
Abstract
We use data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine the elderly’s out-of-pocket health care spending. We find that Medicare HMOs, employer supplements, and Medicaid effectively insulate aga...Keywords
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