Association Between the ACA Medicaid Expansions and Changes in Cardiovascular Risk Factors Among Low-Income Individuals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evidence is limited as to whether the introduction of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)'s Medicaid expansions was associated with improvements in cardiovascular risk factors at the population level.

Objective

To examine the association between the ACA Medicaid expansions and changes in cardiovascular risk factors among low-income individuals during the first 3 years of the implementation of the ACA Medicaid expansions at the national level.

Design

A quasi-experimental difference-in-differences (DID) analysis to compare outcomes before (2005-2012) and after (2015-2016) the implementation of the ACA Medicaid expansions between individuals in states that expanded Medicaid and individuals in non-expansion states.

Participants

A nationally representative samp

SUBMITTER: Gotanda H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8298725 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature