Affordable Care Act-dependent Insurance Coverage and Access to Care Among Young Adult Women With a Recent Live Birth.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Affordable Care Act (ACA)-dependent coverage Provision (the Provision), implemented in 2010, extended family insurance coverage to adult children until age 26.

Objectives

To examine the impact of the ACA Provision on insurance coverage and care among women with a recent live birth.

Research design, subjects, and outcome measures

We conducted a difference-in-difference analysis to assess the effect of the Provision using data from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System among 22,599 women aged 19-25 (treatment group) and 22,361 women aged 27-31 years (control group). Outcomes include insurance coverage in the month before and during pregnancy, and at delivery, and receipt of timely prenatal care, a postpartum check-up, and postpartum contraceptiv

SUBMITTER: Li R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10427222 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature