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SUBMITTER: Card D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2777733 | biostudies-literature | 2009
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Card David D Dobkin Carlos C Maestas Nicole N
The quarterly journal of economics 20090101 2
Health insurance characteristics shift at age 65 as most people become eligible for Medicare. We measure the impacts of these changes on patients who are admitted to hospitals through emergency departments for conditions with similar admission rates on weekdays and weekends. The age profiles of admissions and comorbidities for these patients are smooth at age 65, suggesting that the severity of illness is similar on either side of the Medicare threshold. In contrast, the number of procedures per ...[more]