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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Finkelstein 2006<br />

Impact of Medicare on hospital spending is six times larger than<br />

predicted by individual-level changes in RAND experiment<br />

Estimates imply that increased health insurance can explain half of<br />

increase in health spending between 1950 and 1990<br />

No direct normative implications: could be a liquidity or moral hazard<br />

effect.<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> () <strong>Part</strong> 6: Social Insurance 192 / 207

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