led to sizeable improvements in access to health care in both Medicaid expansion and non-expansion states, with the gains …The goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to achieve nearly universal health insurance coverage through a … combination of mandates, subsidies, marketplaces, and Medicaid expansions, most of which took effect in 2014. We use data from the …

design to examine effects of the expansion on health insurance coverage, hospital use, and patient health. We then link these … changes to effects on hospital finances. We show that a substantial share of the federally-funded Medicaid expansion … significant improvements in patient health, although the expansion led to substantially greater hospital and emergency room use …

design to examine effects of the expansion on health insurance coverage, hospital use, and patient health. We then link these … changes to effects on hospital finances. We show that a substantial share of the federally-funded Medicaid expansion … significant improvements in patient health, although the expansion led to substantially greater hospital and emergency room use …