Changes in Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Care and Health Among US Adults at Age 65 Years.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Medicare provides nearly universal health insurance to individuals at age 65 years. How eligibility for Medicare affects racial and ethnic disparities in access to care and health is poorly understood.

Objective

To assess the association of Medicare with racial and ethnic disparities in access to care and health.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study uses regression discontinuity to compare racial and ethnic disparities before and after age 65 years, the age at which US adults are eligible for Medicare. There are a total of 2 434 320 respondents in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and 44 587 state-age-year observations in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Researc

SUBMITTER: Wallace J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8314180 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature