Sentence examples for a premium structure from inspiring English sources

The Class Act promises a lot: eligibility for most people, no matter their health status, as long as they are working at least a little; a benefit of at least $50 or so a day that lasts until death if necessary; and a premium structure that will offer big discounts for lower-income people but still won't require any federal money.

Using 2003 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) merged with CHIP premiums, we compare health insurance outcomes for CHIP eligible children as of January 2003 in states with a two-tier premium structure using a cross-sectional regression discontinuity methodology.

By December 2003, an additional state adopted a two-tier premium structure, so these 19 states are used in the longitudinal DD analysis.

However, in every state with a two tier premium structure, the underlying principle is the same: for a given child age, families with family income I below a state specific income cut-off pay a smaller CHIP premium compared to families with income at or above the cut-off.

We apply a Difference-in-Differences (DD) method to states with a two tier premium structure as of December 2003 to evaluate the impact of premium increases over time: y ist = ∑ s ∈ S * * α s D s + β 0 + β 1 P it s 1 I it ≥ I ¯ t s + γ 0 + γ 1 P it s t + δ 0 + δ 1 P it s t * 1 I it ≥ I ¯ t s + β z ' z ist + u ist, i ∈ ℑ s where S ** is the relevant group of states.

Characteristics for children in low premium and high premium groups in 18 states with a two tier premium structure, January 2003.

Table  2 shows descriptive statistics for children in low premium and high premium groups in 19 states with a two-tier premium structure as of January 2003 and December 2003.

Characteristics for children in low premium and high premium groups in 19 states with a two tier premium structure, January and December, 2003.

Table  1 presents descriptive statistics for children in low and high premium groups in 18 states with a two tier premium structure as of January 2003.

As of January 2003, 18 CHIP programs with at least a two tier premium structure charged families up to $61 per child per month if in the low premium group and up to $77 if in the high premium group.

Since MEPS (described in the next section) is designed to produce nationally representative estimates, we first evaluate data on all states with a two tier premium structure as of January 2003.