Early Coverage, Access, Utilization, and Health Effects Associated With the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansions: A Quasi-experimental Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2014, only 26 states and the District of Columbia chose to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansions for low-income adults.

Objective

To evaluate whether the state Medicaid expansions were associated with changes in insurance coverage, access to and utilization of health care, and self-reported health.

Design

Comparison of outcomes before and after the expansions in states that did and did not expand Medicaid.

Setting

United States.

Participants

Citizens aged 19 to 64 years with family incomes below 138% of the federal poverty level in the 2010 to 2014 National Health Interview Surveys.

Measurements

Health insurance coverage (private, Medicaid, or none); improvements in coverage over the previ

SUBMITTER: Wherry LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5021068 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature