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Spillover Effects of Medicaid Expansion on Private Premiums : Evidence from Cost-Sharing Subsidy Thresholds

Ellis, Cameron; Esson, Meghan; Frederick, Joshua - 2019

The Affordable Care Act is one of the most debated and dividing pieces of legislation in recent memory. One of the main elements of the ACA is the optional expansion of Medicaid eligibility to 138\% of the federal poverty line. The current debate has focused on the direct effects of the newly...

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Health insurance coverage and health care utilization : evidence from the affordable care

Yörük, Barış K. - 2016

This paper investigates the impact of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) dependent coverage mandate on health insurance coverage rates and health care utilization among young adults. Using data from the Medical Panel Expenditure Survey, I exploit the discontinuity in health insurance coverage...

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From Bushfires to COVID-19 : Forewarning Indicators of Coronavirus Pandemic in Australia

Bosupeng, Mpho - 2021

The purpose of this study is to determine the leading indicators of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia using daily data … predict a financial crisis to examine 30 COVID-19 indicators in Australia. The results show that the best indicator of the … current pandemic in Australia is the number of new tests. Other significant variables that are important for monitoring the …

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Health Insurance and the Supply of Entrepreneurs : New Evidence from the Affordable Care Act's Dependent Coverage Mandate

Bailey, James B. - 2017

Is the difficulty of purchasing health insurance as an individual or small business a major barrier to entrepreneurship in the United States? I answer this question by taking advantage of the natural experiment provided by the Affordable Care Act’s dependent coverage mandate, which allowed...

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Measuring the ACA’s Parental Mandate Using Difference-in-Differences

Slusky, David - 2014

The Affordable Care Act lets young adults stay on their parents’ insurance. Several recent papers use broad age-time difference-in-differences strategies to argue that this causes significant health insurance and labor effects. Using SIPP and CPS data, I show that difference-in-differences...

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How Protected Classes in Medicare Part D Influence Drug Spending and Utilization : Evidence from the Synthetic Control Method

Yarbrough, Courtney - 2017

When the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit was implemented in 2006, six drug classes were designated “protected classes.” Because responsibility for obtaining favorable drug prices depends on private insurers’ abilities to negotiate with pharmaceutical manufacturers using the...

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The Affordable Care Act : Moving Forward in the Coming Years

Gostin, Lawrence O.; Hyman, David A.; Jacobson, Peter D. - 2016

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...

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Impact of Medicaid Policy Changes on Immigrant parents

Unuigbe, Aig - 2022

During the 1990s and early 2000s many states expanded Medicaid eligibility for parents particularly after the 1996 welfare reform. At the same time, welfare reform also put in place policies that limited the eligibility of recent immigrants for public programs including Medicaid. This paper...

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The Effect of Universal Health Care on the Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditures : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Asali, Muhammad; Pantsulaia, Valida - 2022

In the first two quarters of 2013 the Georgian government introduced and fully implemented a universal health care (UHC) plan covering all those not-yet publicly or privately insured. We estimate the effect of the introduction of the universal healthcare plan on the level of out-of-pocket (OOP)...

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Does the ACA Medicaid Expansion Encourage Labor Market Exits of Older Workers?

Ozcan Onal, Sezen - 2022

In this study, I examine the effects of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on the labor supply decisions of non-disabled, low-educated, childless adults ages 50-64. I employ a triple-differences (DDD) methodology, exploiting variation in individuals’ health insurance status and the...

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