Welfare effects of health insurance in Mexico: The case of Seguro Popular de Salud.

ABSTRACT: This study contributes with original empirical evidence on the distributional and welfare effects of one of the most important health policies implemented by the Mexican government in the last decade, the Seguro Popular de Salud (SPS). We analyze the effect of SPS on households' welfare using a decomposable index that considers insured and uninsured households' response to out-of-pocket (OOP) payments using both social welfare weights and inequality aversion. The disaggregation of the welfare index allows us to explore the heterogeneity of the SPS impact on households' welfare. We applied propensity score matching to reduce the self-selection bias of being SPS insured. Overall results suggest non-conclusive results of the impact of SPS on households' welfare. When we disaggregated the welf

SUBMITTER: Garcia-Diaz R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6028097 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature