The Effects of ACA Medicaid Expansions on Health After 5 Years.

ABSTRACT: We examine the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion effects on self-rated health status over 5 years. The study uses data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System for 2011-2018 and a difference-in-differences design. There is improvement in health status on a 1 to 5 point scale from poor to excellent health among individuals below 100% of the federal poverty line by 0.031, 0.068, 0.031, 0.064, and 0.087 points in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018, respectively. Changes in 2015, 2017, and 2018 are statistically significant (p < .05), and the 2014 change is marginally significant. The difference between 2014 and 2018 effects is statistically significant (p < .05). In most years, we cannot distinguish changes in days not in good physical or mental health from no effe

SUBMITTER: Semprini J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8218574 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature