Childhood Medicaid Coverage and Later Life Health Care Utilization

Policy-makers have argued that providing public health insurance coverage to the uninsured lowers long-run costs by reducing the need for expensive hospitalizations and emergency department visits later in life. In this paper, we provide evidence for such a phenomenon by exploiting a legislated政策制定者主张，为未参保人群提供公共健康保险覆盖，可通过减少其后续人生阶段中昂贵住院治疗与急诊就诊的需求，降低长期医疗成本。本文通过利用一项已立法的（原文未完整给出后续内容），为该现象提供了实证依据。