The impact of the Affordable Care Act on health care access and self-assessed health in the Trump Era (2017-2018).

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the impact of the major components of the ACA (Medicaid expansion, subsidized Marketplace plans, and insurance market reforms) on health care access and self-assessed health during the first 2 years of the Trump administration (2017 and 2018).

Data source

The 2011-2018 waves of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), with the sample restricted to nonelderly adults. The BRFSS is a commonly used data source in the ACA literature due to its large number of questions related to access and self-assessed health. In addition, it is large enough to precisely estimate the effects of state policy interventions, with over 300 000 observations per year.

Design

We estimate difference-in-difference-in-differences (DDD) models to separately iden

SUBMITTER: Courtemanche C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7518825 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature