Subsidized Marketplace Purchases Reduced Racial Disparities in Private Coverage Under the Affordable Care Act.

ABSTRACT: The Affordable Care Act's Marketplaces, by allowing subsidized purchase of insurance coverage by persons with incomes from the poverty line to middle income, and through active outreach and enrollment assistance efforts, are well situated to reduce large African American-white private coverage disparities. Using data from the National Health Interview Survey for multiyear periods before and after Affordable Care Act implementation, from 2011-2013 to 2015-2018, this study assessed how much disparity reduction occurred when Marketplaces were implemented. Analysis compared private coverage take-up by African Americans and whites for persons with incomes between 100 and 400% of the Federal Poverty Line (FPL), controlling for African American-white income differences and other covariates. Afric

SUBMITTER: Snowden LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8760123 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature