(Forthcoming Article) - The vast majority of Americans become eligible for Medicare at age 65. This results in 7 percent of the near elderly transitioning from uninsurance to insurance and 60 percent switching from some source of insurance to Medicare. We develop an extension of two-sample IV to estimate the effect of uninsurance on access to care while accounting for the effects of the other transitions. We find that not having insurance results in much lower probabilities of having a medical provider or receiving inpatient care. The foregone hospitalizations are for life-threatening emergent conditions and elective surgeries that increase quality of life.

Many dictatorships have ended peacefully, so the end of Orbán’s rule in Hungary isn’t proof he was never really taking the country in an authoritarian direction, writes James Kirchick.

Hungarian election results at the settlement level show that Fidesz’s collapse happened everywhere across the country, from large cities to rural villages.