Private vs. Public Provision of Social Insurance: Evidence from Medicaid

We thank Kate Bundorf, Heinrich Kögel, Jessica Van Parys, and Matt Rutledge for serving as discussants for the paper as well as seminar participants at Harvard Medical School, the Leonard David Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, the NBER Spring Aging Meeting, ASHEcon, the American-European Health Economics Study Group, the Disability Research Consortium Annual Meeting, the University of Minnesota, the Schaeffer Center at the University of Southern California, the Institute on Health Economics, Health Behaviors, and Disparities at Cornell University, Harvard University, the APPAM Annual Fall Research Conference, Yale School of Public Health, and RAND for useful comments. We thank Mike Geruso, Jon Kolstad, Jenn Kowalski, Chris Ody, Bastian Ravesteijn, Mark Shepard, Amanda Starc, and Jacob Wallace for helpful conversations about earlier drafts of this paper. Special thanks to Francoise Becker at the Social Security Administration (SSA) for data analysis support with the Disability Analysis File. Julia Yates provided excellent research assistance. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, the Social Security Administration through grant #5 DRC12000002-06 to the National Bureau of Economic Research as part of the SSA Disability Research Consortium, the National Institute on Aging (P30-AG012810), and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (K01-HS25786-01). The findings and conclusions expressed are solely those of the authors and do not represent the opinions or policy of SSA, any agency of the Federal Government, or the National Bureau of Economic Research.