Insurance Churn and the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Many individuals in the US face a high risk of losing their health insurance coverage and experiencing insurance churn, especially those enrolled in Medicaid. Prior research has found that the risk of losing insurance coverage remains high in the US even after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act significantly reduced the number of uninsured individuals.

Objective

To estimate whether the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) decreased insurance churn.

Design, setting, and participants

This study used 2 quasi-experimental approaches: an interrupted time series approach and a difference-in-difference approach. Both approaches use individual-level data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey from January 2015 to December 2022. In the diff

SUBMITTER: Shubeck SP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12205398 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature