Spillover Effects of the Affordable Care Act? Exploring the Impact on Young Adult Dental Insurance Coverage.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess whether the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) dependent coverage health insurance mandate had a spillover impact on young adult dental insurance coverage and whether any observed effects varied by household income.

Data

Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys from 2006 through 2011.

Study design

We employed a difference-in-difference regression approach comparing changes in insurance rates for young adults ages 19-25 years to changes in insurance rates for adults ages 27-30 years. Separate regressions were estimated by categories of household income as a percentage of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) to understand whether the mandate had heterogeneous spillover effects.

Results

Private dental insurance increased by 6.7 percentage points among young adul

SUBMITTER: Shane DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4545349 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature