{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/open-source-economics/C-TAM/issues/68","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/open-source-economics/C-TAM","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/open-source-economics/C-TAM/issues/68/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/open-source-economics/C-TAM/issues/68/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/open-source-economics/C-TAM/issues/68/events","html_url":"https://github.com/open-source-economics/C-TAM/issues/68","id":313069518,"number":68,"title":"Some tax units have extremely high values of Medicaid and Medicare","user":{"login":"MaxGhenis","id":6076111,"avatar_url":"https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/6076111?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/MaxGhenis","html_url":"https://github.com/MaxGhenis","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/MaxGhenis/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/MaxGhenis/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/MaxGhenis/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/MaxGhenis/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/MaxGhenis/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/MaxGhenis/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/MaxGhenis/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/MaxGhenis/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/MaxGhenis/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":15,"created_at":"2018-04-10T20:03:16Z","updated_at":"2018-04-30T13:14:52Z","closed_at":null,"author_association":"NONE","body":"The maximum benefit amount per person is $455k for Medicaid and $692k for Medicare ([notebook](http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/MaxGhenis/taxcalc-notebooks/blob/master/exploratory/taxdata_benefit_cdfs.ipynb)). These are somewhat outliers but multiple percent have benefit values in excess of $20k.\r\n![download](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6076111/38580622-4d2e05f8-3cbf-11e8-97a7-bd219aac709c.png)\r\n Is this expected? Reading through the [updated C-TAM documentation](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OoWr18ZZkXC9jRI3PHkvKncfCK_BGrTez4syXBCMCK8/edit#heading=h.91rtosbtbpbd) I wonder if this has to do with using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, where some slices might have high medical expenditure. But is using per-person expenditures an appropriate estimate of the value? In lieu of these programs most people would pay for health insurance, not bear the treatment costs themselves.\r\n\r\ncc @Amy-Xu "},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/open-source-economics/C-TAM/issues/comments/385394516","html_url":"https://github.com/open-source-economics/C-TAM/issues/68#issuecomment-385394516","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/open-source-economics/C-TAM/issues/68","id":385394516,"user":{"login":"andersonfrailey","id":20684675,"avatar_url":"https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/20684675?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/andersonfrailey","html_url":"https://github.com/andersonfrailey","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/andersonfrailey/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/andersonfrailey/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/andersonfrailey/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/andersonfrailey/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/andersonfrailey/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/andersonfrailey/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/andersonfrailey/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/andersonfrailey/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/andersonfrailey/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2018-04-30T13:14:52Z","updated_at":"2018-04-30T13:14:52Z","author_association":"COLLABORATOR","body":"`other_ben` is simply the aggregate sum of administration reported costs of programs distributed proportionally to tax units. So an exceptionally high Medicaid value could also lead to an exceptionally high `other_ben` value."}}
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