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Medicaid-ing uninsurance? : the impact of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion on uninsurance spells
Heim, Bradley T.; Lurie, Ithai; Patel, Elena; Ramnath, … - 2023
We study the effect of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion on coverage dynamics following the sudden loss of coverage from an employer plan. This analysis leverages novel administrative data capturing monthly health insurance coverage for the U.S. population. Using these data, we...
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The Affordable Care Act's Medicaid Expansion Is Shifting Resources away from Low-Income Children
Blahous, Charles; Sigaud, Liam - 2022
In this study, we find that Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is generally associated in expansion states with a shift of program financial resources away from children toward nonaged nondisabled adults. We examine Medicaid expenditures per capita for beneficiary categories...
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Did the ACA Medicaid Expansion save lives?
Borgschulte, Mark; Vogler, Jacob - 2019
We estimate the effect of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on county-level mortality in the first four years following expansion. We find a reduction in all-cause mortality in ages 20 to 64 equaling 11.36 deaths per 100,000 individuals, a 3.6 percent decrease. This estimate is largely...
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The effects of the Affordable Care Act medicaid expansion on subjective well-being
Kim, Seonghoon; Koh, Kanghyock - 2019
This study analyzes the effects of the 2014 Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion on the subjective well-being of individuals in the United States. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we find that the expansion has significantly improved the overall life satisfaction of...
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Revisiting the connection between state Medicaid expansions and adult mortality
Courtemanche, Charles; Jones, Jordan; Koumpias, Antonios M. - 2022
This paper examines the impact of Medicaid expansions to parents and childless adults on adult mortality. Specifically, we evaluate the long-run effects of eight state Medicaid expansions from 1994 through 2005 on all-cause, healthcare-amenable, non-healthcareamenable, and HIV-related mortality...
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Accessing the safety net : how Medicaid affects health and recidivism
Packham, Analisa; Slusky, David - 2023
We estimate the causal impact of access to means-tested public health insurance coverage (Medicaid) on health outcomes and recidivism for those recently released from incarceration. To do so, we leverage a policy change in South Carolina that allowed simplified Medicaid re-enrollment for...
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Regulated Age-Based Pricing in Subsidized Health Insurance : Evidence from the Affordable Care Act
Orsini, Joe - 2017
most buyers are subsidized, although age-rating restrictions affect pre-subsidy premiums, participation is primarily driven … by subsidy generosity rather than pricing decisions. Combining pre and post-reform data on prices and enrollment we find … that age-rating restrictions altered pre-subsidy premiums: $230/year for under-50 buyers and -$900/year for over-50 buyers …
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Economic Effects of Risk Classification Bans
Dionne, Georges - 2014
Risk classification refers to the use of observable characteristics by insurers to group individuals with similar expected claims, to compute the corresponding premiums, and thereby to reduce asymmetric information. Permitting risk classification may reduce informational asymmetry-induced...
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Health insurance as an income stabilizer
Gallagher, Emily A.; Blascak, Nathan; Roll, Stephen P.; … - 2020
We evaluate the effect of health insurance on the incidence of negative income shocks using the tax data and survey responses of nearly 14,000 low income households. Us-ing a regression discontinuity (RD) design and variation in the cost of nongroup pri-vate health insurance under the Affordable...
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Who increases emergency department use? : new insights from the Oregon health insurance experiment
Denteh, Augustine; Liebert, Helge - 2022
We provide new insights regarding the finding that Medicaid increased emergency department (ED) use from the Oregon experiment. We find meaningful heterogeneous impacts of Medicaid on ED use using causal machine learning methods. The treatment effect distribution is widely dispersed, and the...
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