Policy Points Social policies might not only improve economic well‐being, but also health.
Health policy experts have therefore advocated for investments in social policies both to …

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 …

Background: Although the Affordable Care Act has been successful in expanding Medicaid
to> 17 million people, insurance alone may not translate into access to health care. Even …

Context The Affordable Care Act provides new Medicaid coverage to an estimated 12 million
low‐income adults. Barriers to access or quality could hamper the program's success. One …

There is a popular perception that insurance coverage will reduce overuse of the emergency
department (ED). Both opponents and advocates of expanding insurance coverage under …

Objectives. We examined reports of insurance-based discrimination and its association with
insurance type and access to care in the early years of the Patient Protection and Affordable …

Purpose Reduced access to care and barriers have been shown in rural populations and in
publicly insured populations. Barriers limiting health care access in publicly insured …

Objectives To estimate the frequency and factors associated with foregone and delayed
medical care attributed to the COVID‐19 pandemic among nonelderly adults from August to …

With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), millions of low-income adults
gained health coverage. We examined how the ACA's expansion of Medicaid eligibility …

The Affordable Care Act expands health insurance coverage to millions of Americans, but
the availability of health care services for the newly insured population remains uncertain …