Changes in Noninsurance and Care Unaffordability Among Cancer Survivors Following the Affordable Care Act.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little is known about changes in socioeconomic disparities in noninsurance and care unaffordability among nonelderly cancer survivors following the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Methods

Cancer survivors aged 18-64 years nationwide were identified from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Trend and difference-in-differences analyses were conducted to examine changes in percent uninsured and percent reporting care unaffordability pre-(2011 to 2013) and post-(2014 to 2017) ACA Medicaid expansion, by sociodemographic factors.

Results

A total of 118 631 cancer survivors were identified from Medicaid expansion (n = 72 124) and nonexpansion (n = 46 507) states. Following the ACA, percent uninsured and percent reporting care unaffordability decreased nation

SUBMITTER: Han X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7357320 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature