The economic crisis and medical care usage
By: Annamaria Lusardi, Daniel Schneider, Peter Tufano
Contributors: Tufano, Peter; Schneider, Daniel (Daniel Jonathan); Harvard Business School
Series: Working paper / Harvard Business School -- 10-079; Working paper (Harvard Business School) -- 10-079.
Publisher: Harvard Business School
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [Boston]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Description: We use a unique, nationally representative cross-national dataset to document the reduction in individuals' usage of routine non-emergency medical care in the midst of the economic crisis. A substantially larger fraction of Americans have reduced medical care than have individuals in Great Britain, Canada, France, and Germany, all countries with universal health care systems. At the national level, reductions in medical care are related to the degree to which individuals must pay for it, and within countries are strongly associated with exogenous shocks to wealth and employment.
Notes: "March 2010"--Publisher's website.

"Rev. 1/24/2010"--t.p.

Includes bibliographical references.