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100 1  Baicker, Katherine.
245 10 Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: |bAddressing Market Failures or Providing a Social Floor? / |cKatherine Baicker, Amitabh Chandra, Mark Shepard.
260    Cambridge, Mass. |bNational Bureau of Economic Research |c2023.
300    1 online resource: |billustrations (black and white);
490 1  NBER working paper series |vno. w30854
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520 3  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 failures will propagate inefficiencies and are not likely to facilitate active policy decisions that align with societal coverage goals.  By instead defining a basic bundle of services that is publicly financed for all, while allowing individuals to purchase additional coverage, policymakers could both expand coverage and maintain incentives for innovation, fostering universal access to innovative care in an affordable system.
500    January 2023.
650  7 Publicly Provided Goods |2jelc
650  7 Government Expenditures and Health |2jelc
650  7 Health Insurance, Public and Private |2jelc
710 2  National Bureau of Economic Research.
700 1  Chandra, Amitabh.
700 1  Shepard, Mark.
830  0 Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) |vno. w30854.
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