Medicaid expansion, health insurance coverage, and cost barriers to care among low-income adults with asthma: the Adult Asthma Call-Back Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine Medicaid expansion (ME) effects on health insurance coverage (HIC) and cost barriers to medical care among people with asthma.

Method

We analyzed 2012-2013 and 2015-2016 data from low-income adults with current asthma aged 18-64 years in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Asthma Call-Back Survey (state-level telephone survey). We calculated weighted percentages and 95% confidence intervals from ME and non-ME jurisdictions (according to 2014 ME status). Outcomes were HIC and cost barriers to buying asthma medication (MED), seeing a health care provider for asthma (HCP), or any asthma care (AAC). Using SUDAAN, we performed survey-weighted difference-in-differences analyses, adjusting for demographics. Subgroup analyses were stratified by demogr

SUBMITTER: Hsu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8842503 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature