Browsing by Author "Baicker, Katherine"
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Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: Addressing Market Failures or Providing a Social Floor?
Baicker, Katherine; Chandra, Amitabh; Shepard, Mark (Harvard Kennedy School, 2023-01)The United States spends substantially more on health care than most developed countries, yet leaves a greater share of the population uninsured. We suggest that incremental insurance expansions focused on addressing market ... -
Changes in Mortality After Massachusetts Health Care Reform
Sommers, Benjamin Daniel; Long, Sharon K.; Baicker, Katherine (American College of Physicians, 2014)Background: The Massachusetts 2006 health care reform has been called a model for the Affordable Care Act. The law attained near-universal insurance coverage and increased access to care. Its effect on population health ... -
Evaluating Health Interventions Over Time: Empirical Tests of the Validity of the Single Interrupted Time Series Design
Svoronos, Theodore (2016-08-29)Single interrupted time series (ITS) is a quasi-experimental evaluation design used frequently in the health policy literature. This manuscript investigates the validity of single ITS through two within-study comparisons ... -
Mortality and Access to Care among Adults after State Medicaid Expansions
Sommers, Benjamin Daniel; Baicker, Katherine; Epstein, Arnold M. (New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS), 2012)Background: Several states have expanded Medicaid eligibility for adults in the past decade, and the Affordable Care Act allows states to expand Medicaid dramatically in 2014. Yet the effect of such changes on adults’ ... -
Testing the Validity of the Single Interrupted Time Series Design
Baicker, Katherine; Svoronos, Theodore (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2019-07)Given the complex relationships between patients’ demographics, underlying health needs, and outcomes, establishing the causal effects of health policy and delivery interventions on health outcomes is often empirically ... -
Uncomfortable Arithmetic — Whom to Cover versus What to Cover
Baicker, Katherine; Chandra, Amitabh (Massachusetts Medical Society, 2009)Much of the current debate about expanding health insurance coverage avoids addressing an uncomfortable trade-off: with a limited budget, making benefits more generous means being able to cover fewer people. Moreover, ...