The effect of tax subsidies on high health care expenditure burdens in the United States.
Previous analyses of families with high health care expenditure burdens have ignored the potentially mitigating effects of tax subsidies. This analysis uses data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) to fill this gap. A range of health expenditure burden measures are computed, with and without tax subsidies, showing the impact that tax subsidies have on both the prevalence and magnitude of high health care spending burdens among the nonelderly.
Selden
Thomas M
TM
Division of Modeling and Simulation, Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 540 Gaither Road, Rockville, MD 20850, USA. tselden@ahrq.gov
D017281:Cost of Illness; D005382:Financing, Personal / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007342:Insurance Benefits / Q000191:economics; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000191:economics*; D008483:Medical Assistance / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017057:Medically Uninsured / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017059:Models, Econometric; D011203:Poverty / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013660:Taxes / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States