Barriers to Care and Health Care Utilization Among the Publicly Insured.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although the Affordable Care Act has been successful in expanding Medicaid to >17 million people, insurance alone may not translate into access to health care. Even among the insured, substantial barriers to accessing services inhibit health care utilization.

Objectives

We examined the effect of selected barriers to health care access and the magnitude of those barriers on health care utilization.

Research design

Data come from a 2008 survey of adult enrollees in Minnesota's public health care programs. We used multivariate logistic regression to estimate the effects of perceived patient, provider, and system-level barriers on past year delayed, foregone, and lack of preventive care.

Subjects

A total of 2194 adults enrolled in Minnesota Health Care P

SUBMITTER: Allen EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5309146 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature