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Risk Protection, Service Use, and Health Outcomes Under Colombia's Health Insurance Program for the Poor / Grant Miller, Diana M. Pinto, Marcos Vera-Hernández.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Grant.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w15456.
- NBER working paper series no. w15456
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2009.
- Summary:
- Unexpected medical care spending imposes considerable financial risk on developing country households. Based on managed care models of health insurance in wealthy countries, Colombia's Régimen Subsidiado is a publicly financed insurance program targeted to the poor, aiming both to provide risk protection and to promote allocative efficiency in the use of medical care. Using a "fuzzy" regression discontinuity design, we find that the program has shielded the poor from some financial risk while increasing the use of traditionally under-utilized preventive services - with measurable health gains.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- October 2009.
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