Health Insurance and Income Inequality
评估了影响健康保险的主要政府项目对收入不平等的影响，指出健康保险等非现金补偿通常未被纳入收入和不平等分析中，而这一遗漏在美国医疗成本高昂的背景下尤为重要。
Health insurance and other in-kind forms of compensation and government benefits are typically not included in measures of income and analyses of inequality. This omission is important. Given the large and growing cost of health care in the United States and the presence of large government health insurance programs such as Medicaid and Medicare, it is crucial to understand how health insurance and related public policies contribute to measured economic well-being and inequality. Our paper assesses the effect on inequality of the primary government programs that affect health insurance.