We study two mechanisms used by public health insurance programs for rationing health
care: outsourcing to private managed care plans and quantity limits for prescription drugs …

Public health insurance benefits in the US are increasingly provided by private firms, despite
mixed evidence on welfare effects. We investigate the impact of privatization in Medicaid by …

We study the effect of privatizing Medicaid drug benefits on drug prices and utilization. Drug
spending would decrease by 21.3 percent if private insurers administered all drug benefits …

Abstract The United States health care system faces ongoing academic and policy debates
concerning the most effective ways to administer publicly funded health insurance plans …

Medicaid has increasingly transitioned from a government-run fee-for-service system (FFS)
to a managed care system (MMC) administered by private insurers. To examine the effect of …

In this paper, we study the consequences of the shift to private provision of public health
insurance benefits in Medicaid, the program for providing health insurance coverage to …