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Take‐Up of Public Insurance and Crowd‐Out of Private Insurance under Recent CHIP Expansions to Higher Income Children
Author(s) -
Gresenz Carole Roan,
Edgington Sarah E.,
Laugesen Miriam,
Escarce José J.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
health services research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.706
H-Index - 121
eISSN - 1475-6773
pISSN - 0017-9124
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2012.01408.x
Subject(s) - health insurance , current population survey , poverty , actuarial science , public health insurance , private insurance , population , crowding out , poverty level , business , medicaid , public health , demographic economics , demography , medicine , economics , environmental health , economic growth , health care , nursing , sociology , monetary economics
Objective To analyze the effects of states' expansions of Children's Health Insurance Program ( CHIP ) eligibility to children in higher income families on health insurance coverage outcomes. Data Sources 2002–2009 Current Population Survey linked to multiple secondary data sources. Study Design Instrumental variables estimation of linear probability models. Outcomes are whether the child had any public insurance, any private insurance, or no insurance coverage during the year. Principal Findings Among children in families with incomes between two and four times the federal poverty line ( FPL ), four enrolled in CHIP for every 100 who became eligible. Roughly half of the newly eligible children who took up public insurance were previously uninsured. The upper bound “crowd‐out” rate was estimated to be 46 percent. Conclusions The CHIP expansions to children in higher income families were associated with limited uptake of public coverage. Our results additionally suggest that there was crowd‐out of private insurance coverage.