President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010 with no Republican support. The ACA has been politically divisive ever since, with the House repeatedly voting for repeal. Earlier this year, Congress successfully passed a repeal, with the Senate using a legislative process...

A large literature examines the effect of health insurance on mortality. We add to this literature by emphasizing two challenges in using quasi-experimental variation provided by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage expansions to study mortality. The first is non-parallel pre-treatment trends....

This Appendix contains additional methods details and results for Black, Hollingsworth, Nunes, and Simon, The Effect of Health Insurance on Mortality: Power Analysis and What Can We Learn from the Affordable Care Act Coverage Expansions? (working paper 2018), at...

A large literature examines the effect of health insurance on mortality. We contribute by emphasizing two challenges in using the Affordable Care Act (ACA)'s quasi-experimental variation to study mortality. The first is non-parallel pretreatment trends. Rising mortality in Medicaid non-expansion...