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Medicaid Insurance in Old Age.
The old age provisions of the Medicaid program were designed to insure retirees against medical expenses. We estimate a structural model of savings and medical spending and use it to compute the distribution of lifetime Medicaid transfers and Medicaid valuations across currently single retirees. Compensating variation calculations indicate that current retirees value Medicaid insurance at more ...
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for old-age and survivors insurance to reach full maturi ty, it is still in its childhood. The number of beneficiaries today is only a fraction of the number who will be receiving benefits 1 0 or 1 5 years hence. Acceptance by employers and workers of the idea of social insurance protection for old people and survivors, however, has been little short of phenomenal. This general acceptance is th...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Economic Review
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0002-8282
DOI: 10.1257/aer.20140015