Universal Health Insurance and the Adequacy and Efficiency of Health Care

描述(由申请人提供)：全民健康保险和医疗保健的充分性和效率这个项目将使用65岁以下和刚刚超过65岁的人之间的比较来衡量65岁以上的人获得几乎普遍的医疗保险对初级保健和急诊科服务的使用有何影响；医院外提供的保健服务的质量，以及因急性心肌梗死而入院的人的治疗强度和健康结果。该项目的结果将直接与政策有关，因为它们将有助于量化保险覆盖范围(或缺乏覆盖范围)对老年人保健提供系统的效率和效力的影响。它们还将为评估将医疗保险覆盖范围扩大到以前未覆盖的个人的成本提供有价值的信息。这些发现还将为不同患者组之间急性心肌梗死患者的治疗差异以及这些差异如何影响这些组的健康提供新的见解。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Universal Health Insurance and the Adequacy and Efficiency of Health Care This project will use comparisons between people just under and just over age 65 to measure how the availability of nearly universal health insurance for those over 65 affects the use of primary care versus Emergency Department services; the quality of health care services provided outside the hospital, and the treatment intensity and health outcomes of people admitted to the hospital for acute myocardial infarction. The results from this project will be directly policy-relevant as they will help to quantify the effects of insurance coverage (or lack of coverage) on the efficiency and efficacy of the health care delivery system for older adults. They will also provide valuable information for evaluating the costs of extending health insurance coverage to previously uncovered individuals. The findings will also provide new insights into the disparities in treatment of acute myocardial infarction patients across different patient groups, and how these disparities affect the health of these groups.