Income Inequities and Medicaid Expansion are Related to Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Delayed or Forgone Care Due to Cost.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Monitoring political and social determinants of delayed or forgone care due to cost is necessary to evaluate efforts to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in access to care. Our objective was to examine the extent to which state Medicaid expansion decisions and personal household income may be associated with individual-level racial and ethnic disparities in delayed or forgone care due to cost, at baseline, before the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

Methods

We used 2012 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey data to examine racial and ethnic differences in delayed or forgone care due to cost in states that do and do not plan Medicaid expansion. We examined personal household income as a social factor that could contribute to racial and ethn

SUBMITTER: Clark CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5830941 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature