Racial Differences in Health Insurance Coverage and Medical Expenditures in the United States
A Historical Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11203702 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Melissa A Thomasson (0000-0001-9669-4323, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 529-550 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0145-5532 • E-ISSN: 1527-8034 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0145553200013572 |
| OpenAlex | W2025941739 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 24 |
This article uses a unique data set from 1957 to examine the racial gap in health insurance coverage and the extent to which that gap influenced racial differences in health care spending. Results indicate that black households in 1957 were statistically significantly less likely to purchase health insurance than white households, even after controlling for differences in income, years of schooling, age, family size, marital status, and other personal and job-related characteristics. Findings in the article also provide weak support for the hypothesis that a racial gap in health insurance coverage contributed to racial differences in health care spending between blacks and whites; even after controlling for differences in income, education, and other characteristics, racial differences in medical expenditures were smaller for insured than for uninsured families, although the result is not statistically significant
Business · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Ethnic group · Family medicine · Health care · Health insurance · Marital status · Medical care · Political science · Population · Racial differences · Sociology · White (mutation · Demography · Global Health Care Issues · Healthcare Policy and Management · Healthcare Systems and Reforms · Medicine
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| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2010 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |