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Health Insurance and the Homeless

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  • Brent Kreider
  • Sean Nicholson

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There is very little known about health care utilization among the homeless or about the role of health insurance on utilization patterns. Many health care reform proposals advocate expanding health insurance coverage for various segments of society, including the homeless. Although homeless people who lack health insurance face strong financial barriers to health services, providing them with health insurance may not appreciably increase their demand for health care if they also face important non‐financial barriers. We investigate the relationship between insurance and utilization for this group based on estimates from an empirical model of medical care use and insurance coverage. Using our estimates, we simulate potential effects of policy changes on various types of utilization, including use of mental health services and treatment for alcohol or other drug abuse. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Brent Kreider & Sean Nicholson, 1997. "Health Insurance and the Homeless," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 6(1), pages 31-41, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:hlthec:v:6:y:1997:i:1:p:31-41
    DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1050(199701)6:1<31::AID-HEC242>3.0.CO;2-M
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    1. Sylvain Chareyron, 2016. "Le non-recours aux aides sociales sous conditions de ressources," Erudite Ph.D Dissertations, Erudite, number ph16-01 edited by Yannick L'Horty & François Legendre.
    2. Sylvain Chareyron & Patrick Domingues, 2018. "Take‐Up of Social Assistance Benefits: The Case of the French Homeless," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 64(1), pages 170-191, March.
    3. Sylvain Chareyron & Patrick Domingues, 2015. "Take-up of Social Assistance Benefits: The case of Homeless," TEPP Working Paper 2015-07, TEPP.
    4. Cécile Vuillermoz & Stéphanie Vandentorren & Ruben Brondeel & Pierre Chauvin, 2017. "Unmet healthcare needs in homeless women with children in the Greater Paris area in France," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(9), pages 1-15, September.
    5. Sylvain Chareyron, 2015. "Take-up of social assistance benefits: The case of homeless Take-up of Social Assistance Benefits: The Case of Homeless," Working Papers hal-01292107, HAL.

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