Impact of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion on Access to Care and Hospitalization Charges for Lupus Patients

Effect of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access.

ISSUE: The Affordable Care Act's (ACA) coverage provisions have extended health insurance coverage to millions of Americans. While the effects of the Medicaid expansion and marketplace establishments on coverage have been well studied, the resulting effects of coverage on access to health care remain unclear. GOAL: To examine how the 2014 coverage expansions affected health care access followin...

On Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act in Connecticut

BACKGROUND Medicaid is the federal program, administered by states, for health care for the poor. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has added a large number of new recipients to this program. HYPOTHESIS Medicaid programs in some, if not many, states do not provide patients uniform access to subspecialty care guaranteed by the federal statutes. Insofar as the ACA does not address this pre-existing...

ACOG Committee opinion no. 552: benefits to women of Medicaid expansion through the Affordable Care Act.

Many U.S. women are uninsured and face avoidable adverse obstetric and gynecologic health outcomes. The Affordable Care Act requires an expansion of Medicaid that would increase the percentage of U.S. women with health insurance, with the anticipated benefit of improved health. The 2012 Supreme Court decision allows states to opt out of Medicaid expansion. The American College of Obstetricians ...

Medicaid on the eve of expansion: a survey of state Medicaid officials on the Affordable Care Act.

Premium subsidies, the mandate, and Medicaid expansion: Coverage effects of the Affordable Care Act.

Using premium subsidies for private coverage, an individual mandate, and Medicaid expansion, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has increased insurance coverage. We provide the first comprehensive assessment of these provisions' effects, using the 2012-2015 American Community Survey and a triple-difference estimation strategy that exploits variation by income, geography, and time. Overall, our model...