Impacts of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion on Health Insurance, Health Care Utilization, and Health Outcomes for Mexican Americans
Latinos in the U.S. are the least likely to have health insurance compared to other racial and ethnic groups. Mexican Americans, the largest subgroup of U.S. Latinos, have particularly great barriers to healthcare access, and experience disparities in care and in health outcomes. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), enacted in 2010 and mostly implemented by January 1st, 2014, was designed in part to improve health insurance access for uninsured groups, including an option for states to expand Medicaid. We assess the ACA’s effect on six health-related outcomes for Mexican American adults (18-64 years of age). We estimate a difference-in-differences models using the IPUMS National Health Interview Survey data; Mexican Americans living in the West are assigned as the treatment group (where ~97% of Mexican Americans live in states which expanded Medicaid) and the South as a control group (where ~4% of Mexican Americans live in states which expanded Medicaid). We designate 2010-2013 as the pre-treatment period and 2014-2018 as the post-treatment period.The results for the full sample suggest that Medicaid expansion increased Mexican Americans' probability of having: health insurance, a physician visit in the past year, and self-reported diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and hypertension; and decreased the probability of reporting self-assessed health of “very good” or “excellent.”Heterogeneity analyses suggest remarkably large gains for those who are men, foreign born, undocumented, with less than high school levels of education, with incomes less than 100% of the federal poverty line (FPL), and those who have lived more than 5 and less than 10 years in the U.S
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[2022]
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Authors: | Naher, Samsun ; Amoah, Dinah ; Cartwright, Kate ; van der Goes, David |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung | Public health insurance | Wirkungsanalyse | Impact assessment | Mexiko | Mexico | Versicherungsschutz | Insurance coverage | Krankenversicherung | Health insurance |
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Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (41 p) |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments February 19, 2022 erstellt |
Other identifiers: | 10.2139/ssrn.4038612 [DOI] |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013294569
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