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  1. State Medicaid Expansions and Mortality, Revisited: A Cost-Benefit Analysis

    Article • American Journal of Health Economics, July 2017, The MIT Press

    Benjamin Sommers

  2. Recessions, Poverty, and Mortality in the United States: 1993–2012

    Article • American Journal of Health Economics, September 2016, The MIT Press

    Benjamin Sommers

  3. Universal health coverage for US veterans: a goal within reach

    Article • The Lancet, June 2015, Elsevier

    Benjamin Sommers

  4. Using Drugs to Discriminate — Adverse Selection in the Insurance Marketplace

    Article • The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Collateral Branches of Science, January 2015, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS)

    Benjamin Sommers

  5. Dependent Coverage Provision Led To Uneven Insurance Gains And Unchanged Mortality Rates In Young Adult Trauma Patients

    Article • Health Affairs, January 2015, Health Affairs

    Benjamin Sommers, Dr Thomas C. Tsai, Dr Zirui Song

  6. Low-Income Residents In Three States View Medicaid As Equal To Or Better Than Private Coverage, Support Expansion

    Article • Health Affairs, October 2014, Health Affairs

    Benjamin Sommers

  7. Health Reform and Changes in Health Insurance Coverage in 2014

    Article • The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Collateral Branches of Science, August 2014, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS)

    Benjamin Sommers

  8. A potential new data source for assessing the impacts of health reform: Evaluating the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index

    Article • Healthcare, July 2014, Elsevier

    Benjamin Sommers

  9. Changes in Health and Medical Spending Among Young Adults Under Health Reform

    Article • JAMA, June 2014, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Benjamin Sommers

  10. Changes in Mortality After Massachusetts Health Care Reform

    Article • Annals of Internal Medicine, May 2014, American College of Physicians

    Benjamin Sommers

  11. Insurance Cancellations In Context: Stability Of Coverage In The Nongroup Market Prior To Health Reform

    Article • Health Affairs, April 2014, Health Affairs

    Benjamin Sommers

  12. Pinching the Poor? Medicaid Cost Sharing under the ACA

    Article • The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Collateral Branches of Science, March 2014, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS)

    Benjamin Sommers

  13. Medicaid And Marketplace Eligibility Changes Will Occur Often In All States; Policy Options Can Ease Impact

    Article • Health Affairs, March 2014, Health Affairs

    Benjamin Sommers

  14. Moving For Medicaid? Recent Eligibility Expansions Did Not Induce Migration From Other States

    Article • Health Affairs, January 2014, Health Affairs

    Benjamin Sommers

  15. New Evidence On The Affordable Care Act: Coverage Impacts Of Early Medicaid Expansions

    Article • Health Affairs, January 2014, Health Affairs

    Benjamin Sommers

  16. The poverty-reducing effect of Medicaid

    Article • Journal of Health Economics, September 2013, Elsevier

    Benjamin Sommers

  17. Stuck between Health and Immigration Reform — Care for Undocumented Immigrants

    Article • The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Collateral Branches of Science, August 2013, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS)

    Benjamin Sommers

  18. Using Medicaid to Buy Private Health Insurance — The Great New Experiment?

    Article • The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Collateral Branches of Science, July 2013, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS)

    Benjamin Sommers

  19. Emergency Department–Based Brief Intervention to Reduce Risky Driving and Hazardous/Harmful Drinking in Young Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Article • Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research, June 2013, Wiley

    Benjamin Sommers

  20. Recession Led To A Decline In Out-Of-Pocket Spending For Children With Special Health Care Needs

    Article • Health Affairs, June 2013, Health Affairs

    Benjamin Sommers

  21. Insurance Coverage of Emergency Care for Young Adults under Health Reform

    Article • The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Collateral Branches of Science, May 2013, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS)

    Benjamin Sommers

  22. U.S. Governors and the Medicaid Expansion — No Quick Resolution in Sight

    Article • The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Collateral Branches of Science, February 2013, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS)

    Benjamin Sommers

  23. Prevalence and Predictors of Underinsurance Among Low-Income Adults

    Article • Journal of General Internal Medicine, February 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Benjamin Sommers

  24. Lessons from Early Medicaid Expansions Under Health Reform: Interviews with Medicaid Officials

    Article • Medicare & Medicaid Research Review, January 2013, Office of Research, Development and Information (ORDI)

    Benjamin Sommers

  25. The Affordable Care Act Has Led To Significant Gains In Health Insurance And Access To Care For Young Adults

    Article • Health Affairs, December 2012, Health Affairs

    Benjamin Sommers

  26. Mortality and Access to Care among Adults after State Medicaid Expansions

    Article • The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Collateral Branches of Science, September 2012, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS)

    Benjamin Sommers

  27. Creation Of State Basic Health Programs Would Lead To 4 Percent Fewer People Churning Between Medicaid And Exchanges

    Article • Health Affairs, June 2012, Health Affairs

    Benjamin Sommers

  28. An Educational Intervention to Improve Cost-Effective Care Among Medicine Housestaff

    Article • Academic Medicine, June 2012, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Benjamin Sommers

  29. Reasons For The Wide Variation In Medicaid Participation Rates Among States Hold Lessons For Coverage Expansion In 2014

    Article • Health Affairs, May 2012, Health Affairs

    Benjamin Sommers

  30. The Affordable Care Act and Insurance Coverage for Young Adults

    Article • JAMA, March 2012, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Benjamin Sommers

  31. Policy Makers Should Prepare For Major Uncertainties In Medicaid Enrollment, Costs, And Needs For Physicians Under Health Reform

    Article • Health Affairs, October 2011, Health Affairs

    Benjamin Sommers

  32. Why States Are So Miffed about Medicaid — Economics, Politics, and the “Woodwork Effect”

    Article • The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Collateral Branches of Science, July 2011, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS)

    Benjamin Sommers

  33. Societal Costs of Risky Driving: An Economic Analysis of High-Risk Patients Visiting an Urban Emergency Department

    Article • Traffic Injury Prevention, March 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Benjamin Sommers

  34. Children's Health Insurance and Access to Care During and After the CHIP Expansion Period

    Article • Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, January 2011, Project Muse

    Benjamin Sommers, Dr J Michael McWilliams

  35. Routine Screening for Silent Pulmonary Embolism Is Harmful and Unnecessary

    Article • The American Journal of Medicine, December 2010, Elsevier

    Benjamin Sommers

  36. Medicaid Expansion — The Soft Underbelly of Health Care Reform?

    Article • The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Collateral Branches of Science, November 2010, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS)

    Benjamin Sommers

  37. A Death in Primary Care

    Article • Journal of General Internal Medicine, November 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Benjamin Sommers

  38. Targeting in Medicaid: The costs and enrollment effects of Medicaid's citizenship documentation requirement

    Article • Journal of Public Economics, February 2010, Elsevier

    Benjamin Sommers

  39. Predictors of patient preferences and treatment choices for localized prostate cancer

    Article • Cancer, October 2008, Wiley

    Benjamin Sommers

  40. Loss of Health Insurance Among Non-elderly Adults in Medicaid

    Article • Journal of General Internal Medicine, September 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Benjamin Sommers

  41. Obesity and Presenteeism: The Impact of Body Mass Index on Workplace Productivity

    Article • Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, January 2008, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Benjamin Sommers

  42. An Analysis of Price Discrimination in Brand Name Drug Wholesaling

    Article • International Journal of the Economics of Business, November 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Benjamin Sommers

  43. Decision analysis using individual patient preferences to determine optimal treatment for localized prostate cancer

    Article • Cancer, September 2007, Wiley

    Benjamin Sommers

  44. Insuring children or insuring families: Do parental and sibling coverage lead to improved retention of children in Medicaid and CHIP?

    Article • Journal of Health Economics, November 2006, Elsevier

    Benjamin Sommers

  45. The Impact of Gender and Marital Status on End-of-Life Care: Evidence from the National Mortality Follow-Back Survey

    Article • Journal of Palliative Medicine, April 2006, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Benjamin Sommers

  46. Who Really Pays for Health Insurance? The Incidence of Employer-Provided Health Insurance with Sticky Nominal Wages

    Article • International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, March 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Benjamin Sommers

  47. From Medicaid to Uninsured: Drop‐Out among Children in Public Insurance Programs

    Article • Health Services Research, January 2005, Wiley

    Benjamin Sommers