Changes in Health Care Access by Race, Income, and Medicaid Expansion During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The intersecting crises of the COVID-19 pandemic, job losses, and concomitant loss of employer-sponsored health insurance may have disproportionately affected health care access within minorized and lower-socioeconomic status communities.

Objective

To describe changes in access to care during the COVID-19 pandemic, stratified by race/ethnicity, household income, and state Medicaid expansion status.

Research design

We used interrupted time series and difference-in-differences regression models, controlling for respondent characteristics and preexisting trends.

Subjects

Data were extracted for all adults aged 18-64 surveyed in the 2015-2020 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (N=1,731,699) from all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Meas

SUBMITTER: Auty SG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9741953 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature