Accounting for the burden and redistribution of health care costs: Who uses care and who pays for it.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To measure the burden of financing health care costs and quantify redistribution among population groups.

Data sources

A synthetic population using data combined from multiple sources, including the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF)/Health Research Educational Trust (HRET) Employer Health Benefits Survey, American Community Survey (ACS), and National Health Expenditure Accounts (NHEA).

Study design

We estimate two dollar amounts for each individual in the synthetic population: (a) payments to finance health care services, which includes all payments by a household and their employers to finance health care, including premiums, out-of-pocket payments, federal and state ta

SUBMITTER: Carman KG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7080400 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature