Medicaid Expansions and Crowd-Out: Evidence from HIFA Premium Assistance Programs.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the effect of the Oregon and New Mexico Health Insurance Flexibility and Accountability (HIFA) demonstrations. HIFA is an optional state Medicaid expansion targeted at adults and children with incomes below 200 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL). The study has five research questions: What type of health insurance do HIFA enrollees self report in surveys? What are the demographic characteristics of these enrollees? What type of health insurance coverage, if any, did HIFA enrollees have just prior to enrollment in the HIFA program? Among those with prior coverage, what prompted participation in the HIFA program? What type of health insurance, if any, would HIFA enrollees have in the absence of HIFA?

Methods

Data were collected via telephone inter

SUBMITTER: Atherly A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4722208 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature