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. 2016 Sep-Dec;37(3-4):785-819.
doi: 10.1111/j.1475-5890.2016.12126. Epub 2016 Nov 21.

Out-of-Pocket Medical Expenditures in the United States: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Sean Fahle  1 , Kathleen McGarry  2 , Jonathan Skinner  3
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Out-of-Pocket Medical Expenditures in the United States: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Sean Fahle et al. Fisc Stud. 2016 Sep-Dec.
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FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
Mean total spending by age and cohort Note: Three-year moving average. A given cell is dropped when the number of observations in that cell and in the two adjacent cells combined is less than 50. This results in 2 observations being dropped.
FIGURE 2
FIGURE 2
Lorenz curves for selected expenditure categories
FIGURE 3
FIGURE 3
Lorenz curves for 1-wave spending (2008–12) versus 3-wave average
FIGURE 4
FIGURE 4
Lorenz curves for spending versus income and wealth
FIGURE 5
FIGURE 5
Mean total spending by insurance status and age Note: Three-year moving average. A given cell is dropped when the number of observations in that cell and in the two adjacent cells combined is less than 50. This results in 14 observations being dropped.
FIGURE 6
FIGURE 6
Spending by months until death Note: Figure plots the fitted values from a (weighted least squares) regression of cumulative (not annualised) total out-of-pocket spending until death on a constant and a 4th order polynomial of the cumulative number of months until death. No other covariates are included. Data from core and exit interviews from the 1998–2012 waves are used, and only respondents whose survivors provided an exit interview are included in the estimation.
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