Health insurance, treatment and outcomes
Subtitle: using auto accidents as health shocks
By: Joseph J. Doyle Jr.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- no. 11099.; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 11099.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 41
Subjects: Medically uninsured persons -- Medical care; Traffic accident victims -- Medical care
Description: "Previous studies find that the uninsured receive less health care than the insured, yet differences in health outcomes have rarely been studied. In addition, selection bias may partly explain the difference in care received. This paper focuses on an unexpected health shock -- severe automobile accidents where victims have little choice but to visit a hospital. Another innovation is the use of a comparison group that is similar to the uninsured: those who have private health insurance but do not have automobile insurance. The medically uninsured are found to receive twenty percent less care and have a substantially higher mortality rate"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: "February 2005."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 38-41).

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