How Losing Your Job Might Impact Your Health
Samuel Dresner
Abstract
Using data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, the impact of job loss on healthcare utilization is evaluated. Employment is often tied to insurance and the economic theories about how job loss might impact healthcare utilization. The major conclusion from this study is that job loss seems to increase utilization of health care through its intermediate impact on worsening health outcomes. This is an intriguing finding especially since an initial hypothesis was that job loss leads to negative health outcomes through the mechanism of loss of insurance.
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Roundtable Journal on Health Policy | Volume 2 | Issue 1
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