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Medical savings accounts: microsimulation results from a model with adverse selection

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  • Zabinski, Daniel
  • Selden, Thomas M.
  • Moeller, John F.
  • Banthin, Jessica S.
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  • Zabinski, Daniel & Selden, Thomas M. & Moeller, John F. & Banthin, Jessica S., 1999. "Medical savings accounts: microsimulation results from a model with adverse selection," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 18(2), pages 195-218, April.
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    3. Christian Bührer & Stefan Fetzer & Christian Hagist, 2018. "Adverse Selection in the German Health Insurance System – The Case of Civil Servants," WHU Working Paper Series - Economics Group 18-06, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.
    4. Zhang, Hui & Yuen, Peter P., 2016. "Medical Savings Account balance and outpatient utilization: Evidence from Guangzhou, China," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 151(C), pages 1-10.
    5. Ye, Jinqi, 2015. "The effect of Health Savings Accounts on group health insurance coverage," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 44(C), pages 238-254.
    6. Pauly, Mark V. & Herring, Bradley J., 2000. "An efficient employer strategy for dealing with adverse selection in multiple-plan offerings: an MSA example," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 19(4), pages 513-528, July.
    7. Sherry Glied, 2003. "Health Insurance Expansions and the Content of Coverage: Is Something Better Than Nothing?," NBER Chapters, in: Frontiers in Health Policy Research, Volume 6, pages 55-86, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    8. Juergen Jung & Chung Tran, 2008. "The Macroeconomics of Health Savings Accounts," CAEPR Working Papers 2007-023, Center for Applied Economics and Policy Research, Department of Economics, Indiana University Bloomington.
    9. Richard Peter & Sebastian Soika & Petra Steinorth, 2016. "Health Insurance, Health Savings Accounts and Healthcare Utilization," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 25(3), pages 357-371, March.
    10. Marjorie A. Rosenberg & Paul H. Johnson, Jr. & Ian G. Duncan, 2010. "Perspectives Articles: Exploring Stakeholder Perspectives on What Is Affordable Health Care," Risk Management and Insurance Review, American Risk and Insurance Association, vol. 13(2), pages 251-263, September.
    11. Jessica Leight & Nicholas Wilson, 2020. "Framing Flexible Spending Accounts: A Large‐Scale Field Experiment on Communicating the Return on Medical Savings Accounts," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 29(2), pages 195-208, February.
    12. Jeremiah Hurley & G. Emmanuel Guindon & Vicki Rynard & Steve Morgan, 2008. "Publicly funded medical savings accounts: expenditure and distributional impacts in Ontario, Canada," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 17(10), pages 1129-1151, October.
    13. Bührer, Christian & Fetzer, Stefan & Hagist, Christian, 2020. "Adverse selection in the German Health Insurance System – the case of civil servants," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 124(8), pages 888-894.
    14. Steinorth, Petra, 2011. "Impact of health savings accounts on precautionary savings, demand for health insurance and prevention effort," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 30(2), pages 458-465, March.

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