It’s Not Just Insurance: The Affordable Care Act and Population Health

The Affordable Care Act and insurance coverage for young adults.

overdose and may reveal changes in prescribing practices that are shaping the evolving epidemic. Like Yokell et al, we have also noted—both in our own clinical practice and in that of colleagues—that real-time access to prescription databases for health professionals facilitates a patient-centered approach to addressing opioid abuse. In addition, we have encountered physicians managing chronic ...

Changes in Self-reported Insurance Coverage, Access to Care, and Health Under the Affordable Care Act.

IMPORTANCE The Affordable Care Act (ACA) completed its second open enrollment period in February 2015. Assessing the law's effects has major policy implications. OBJECTIVES To estimate national changes in self-reported coverage, access to care, and health during the ACA's first 2 open enrollment periods and to assess differences between low-income adults in states that expanded Medicaid and i...

Health Insurance, Risk, and Responsibility after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Young adults, cancer, health insurance, socioeconomic status, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

During the last 50 years, the majority of improvements in survival in Americans with cancer have been noted in children and older adults and not in older adolescent and young adult (AYA) patients. When evaluated by 5-year age intervals, the increase in the 5-year relative survival rate in the United States during the 3 decades since 1975 has been lower for all age groups between ages 15 years a...

The Future of Employment-Based Health Insurance After the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act