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Politico | Health care’s move from paper to pixels slow
Electronic health records are at the center of some of the key reforms of the Affordable Care Act, because having reliable data to track patients, trends and possible fraud is one of the ways reformers think they will eventually be able to bend the cost curve.
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NBER | Estimates of Crowd-Out from a Public Health Insurance Expansion Using Administrative Data
We use a combination of administrative and survey data to estimate the fraction of individuals newly enrolled in public health coverage that had access to private, employer-sponsored health insurance at the time of their enrollment and the fraction that dropped this coverage. We estimate that after expansion of eligibility for public coverage, approximately 20% of new enrollees had access to private health insurance at the time of enrollment and that only 8% dropped this coverage (with the remaining.
