Hospital Ownership Changes and Employers’ Decision to Offer Insurance
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This study uses 1995 1999 Contingent Workers Supplement and hospital ownership data from the American Hospital Association’s Annual Surveys to how the employer sponsored insurance market responds to changes in hospital ownership. A Nested Multinomial Logit model estimates a two dimensional choice set of availability of an employer based plan and participation in that plan. The model indicates that access to a public hospital system produces a negligible effect on insurance availability and participation for all but the lowest income workers, and the data showed no appreciable difference for not-for-profit and for-profit hospitals.
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