Table 2.
The Effect of the New Jersey Health Care Reform Act on Mortality
| Insured Patients | Uninsured Patients | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Risk Adjustment | Risk Adjustment | |||
| No | Yes | No | Yes | |
| Constant | 0.1436*** | −0.1499*** | 0.1369*** | −0.1287*** |
| New Jersey | 0.0114*** | .0079*** | −0.0341*** | −0.0284*** |
| 1991 | −0.0067** | −0.0025 | −0.0128 | −0.0080 |
| 1992 | −0.0159*** | −0.0092*** | −0.0190 | −0.0104 |
| 1993 | −0.0193*** | −0.0108*** | −0.0313** | −0.0217 |
| 1994 | −0.0276*** | −0.0166*** | −0.0652*** | −0.0517*** |
| 1995 | −0.0308*** | −0.0148*** | −0.0543*** | −0.0369*** |
| 1996 | −0.0337*** | −0.0170*** | −0.0561*** | −0.0450*** |
| Interaction—NJ and 1993 | −0.0054 | −.0034 | 0.0047 | 0.0064 |
| Interaction—NJ and 1994 | 0.0020 | 0.0052 | 0.0469** | 0.0491*** |
| Interaction—NJ and 1995 | 0.0035 | 0.0021 | 0.0490** | 0.0519*** |
| Interaction—NJ and 1996 | 0.0045 | 0.0047 | 0.0367* | 0.0428*** |
| Age | 0.0030*** | 0.0035*** | ||
| Female sex | 0.0340*** | 0.0447*** | ||
| Anterior MI | −0.0791*** | 0.0112 | ||
| Inferior MI | −0.0741*** | −0.0450 | ||
| Other MI | 0.2264*** | 0.2363*** | ||
| Previous CABG | −0.0168*** | 0.0067 | ||
| Congestive heart failure | −0.0022 | −0.0445 | ||
| Complications of diabetes | 0.0175*** | 0.0314 | ||
| Cancer | 0.1308*** | 0.2866*** | ||
| Chronic renal failure | 0.0992*** | 0.0483 | ||
| Nutritional disorders | 0.1279*** | 0.0917 | ||
| Pacemaker | −0.0224*** | −0.0031 | ||
| Number of observations | 273,877 | 273,877 | 12,763 | 12,763 |
| F value | 34.8 | 95.3 | 5.2 | 45.3 |
| Adjusted R2 | .001 | .09 | .004 | .094 |
| Test of controls (p-value) | 1.74 (.17) | 0.83 (.44) | 0.85 (.43) | 1.24 (.29) |
Asterisks indicate the level of significance
*
<.05
**
<.01
***
<.001.