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In this paper I employ a dynamic general equilibrium model to study macroeconomic effects and welfare implications of health policies for universal coverage in the U.S. The model is calibrated to the U.S. data. Numerical simulations indicate that adopting universal coverage has several important macroeconomic effects on health expenditures, hours worked, and increases welfare by improving aggregate health status, and removing adverse selection.
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Feng, Z. (2010). Macroeconomic Analysis of Universal Coverage in the U.S.. In: Chai, SK., Salerno, J.J., Mabry, P.L. (eds) Advances in Social Computing. SBP 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6007. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12079-4_13
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