کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
7359986 1478764 2018 14 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Macroeconomic effects of Medicare
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
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Macroeconomic effects of Medicare
چکیده انگلیسی
This paper develops an overlapping generations model to study the macroeconomic effects of an unexpected elimination of Medicare. We find that a large share of the elderly respond by substituting Medicaid for Medicare. Consequently, the government saves only 46 cents for every dollar cut in Medicare spending. We argue that a comparison of steady states is insufficient to evaluate the welfare effects of the reform. In particular, we find lower ex-ante welfare gains from eliminating Medicare when we account for the costs of transition. Lastly, we find that a majority of the current population benefits from the reform but that aggregate welfare, measured as the dollar value of the sum of wealth equivalent variations, is higher with Medicare.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: The Journal of the Economics of Ageing - Volume 11, May 2018, Pages 27-40
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