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Article: Crowd-in: the effect of private health insurance markets on the demand for Medicaid.(Health Insurance)(health care coverage for workers)
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- Health Services Research
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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As eligibility for public health insurance expands, individuals may drop private insurance coverage and switch to public insurance. This problem, known as crowd-out, has been a key issue in debates regarding the expansion of Medicaid to women and children living above 100 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) (Cutler and Gruber 1996; Dubay and Kenney 1997; Shore-Sheppard, Buchmueller, and Jensen 2000; Long and Marquis 2002; Lo Sasso and Buchmueller 2004). Rather than strictly reducing the number of uninsured, in the presence of crowd-out, increases in Medicaid eligibility shift the burden of health care coverage for the working-poor from employers to federal and state ...