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Is Fragmented Financing Bad for Your Health?
Americans finance health care through a variety of private insurance plans and public programs. This organizational fragmentation could threaten continuity of care and adversely affect outcomes. Using a large sample of veterans who were eligible for mixtures of Veterans Health Administration- and Me...
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Published in: | Inquiry (Chicago) 2011-06, Vol.48 (2), p.109-122 |
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Main Authors: | , |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Summary: | Americans finance health care through a variety of private insurance plans and public programs. This organizational fragmentation could threaten continuity of care and adversely affect outcomes. Using a large sample of veterans who were eligible for mixtures of Veterans Health Administration- and Medicare-financed care, we estimate a system of equations to account for simultaneity in the determination of financing configuration and the probability of hospitalization for an ambulatory care sensitive condition. We find that a change of one standard deviation in financing fragmentation increases the risk of an adverse outcome by one-fifth. |
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ISSN: | 0046-9580 1945-7243 |
DOI: | 10.5034/inquiryjrnl_48.02.02 |