Data and Code for: Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Katherine Baicker, University of Chicago; Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University; Mark Shepard, Harvard University

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Project Citation:

Baicker, Katherine, Chandra, Amitabh, and Shepard, Mark. Data and Code for: Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2023. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-04-19. https://doi.org/10.3886/E183322V1

Project Description

Summary: The United States spends substantially more on health care than most developed countries, yet leaves a greater share of the population uninsured. We argue that incremental insurance expansions focused on addressing market failures will propagate inefficiencies and will fail to facilitate the active policy decisions needed to achieve socially optimal coverage. By instead defining a basic bundle of services that is publicly financed for all, while allowing individuals to to purchase additional coverage, policymakers could both expand coverage and maintain incentives for innovation, ensuring universal access to innovative care in an affordable system.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Universal Coverage

JEL Classification:
I13 Health Insurance, Public and Private
I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health

Geographic Coverage: OECD Nations, United States

Time Period(s): 1961 – 2019

Data Type(s): aggregate data

Collection Notes: We compiled publicly available data published by other sources for this paper. Please see the README for a description and citations.

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