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Current Work on the Distributional Analysis of Household Income Resulting From Changes to Medicaid Policies: Working Paper 2026-09

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  • Justin Falk

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Most of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO's) existing work on estimating the distributional effects of changes to health care programs assigns government subsidies per enrollee to the household of the enrollee. This working paper describes a framework for allocating changes in subsidies resulting from changes to Medicaid policy that accounts for changes in income for health care providers and private insurers in addition to changes in health care use and costs for Medicaid enrollees. That framework can result in different distributional effects because most

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  • Justin Falk, 2026. "Current Work on the Distributional Analysis of Household Income Resulting From Changes to Medicaid Policies: Working Paper 2026-09," Working Papers 62266, Congressional Budget Office.
    • Handle: RePEc:cbo:wpaper:62266
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    JEL classification:

    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • H20 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - General
    • H50 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - General
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs

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