Changes in Health Care Workers' Economic Outcomes Following Medicaid Expansion.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The extent to which changes in health sector finances impact economic outcomes among health care workers, especially lower-income workers, is not well known.

Objective

To assess the association between state adoption of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion-which led to substantial improvements in health care organization finances-and health care workers' annual incomes and benefits, and whether these associations varied across low- and high-wage occupations.

Design, setting, and participants

Difference-in-differences analysis to assess differential changes in health care workers' economic outcomes before and after Medicaid expansion among workers in 30 states that expanded Medicaid relative to workers in 16 states that did not, by examining US indiv

SUBMITTER: Matta S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10900969 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature