[HTML][HTML] Racial and ethnic disparities in health care access and utilization under the Affordable Care Act

J Chen, A Vargas-Bustamante, K Mortensen… - Medical care, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To examine racial and ethnic disparities in health care access and utilization after
the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance mandate was fully implemented in 2014 …

Social equity and COVID‐19: The case of African Americans

JE Wright, CC Merritt - Public Administration Review, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Emerging statistics demonstrate that COVID‐19 disproportionately affects African
Americans. The effects of COVID‐19 for this population are inextricably linked to areas of …

The impact of patient-provider race/ethnicity concordance on provider visits: updated evidence from the medical expenditure panel survey

A Ma, A Sanchez, M Ma - Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 2019 - Springer
Objective To examine the association between race/ethnicity concordance and in-person
provider visits following the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Design Using 2014 …

Impact of the Affordable Care Act on health care access and utilization among Latinos

HE Alcalá, J Chen, BA Langellier… - The Journal of the …, 2017 - Am Board Family Med
Introduction: In the United States, Latinos have poorer access to and utilization of health
care than non-Latino whites. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) may …

Impact of the Affordable Care Act's dependent coverage expansion on the health care and health status of young adults: what do we know so far?

J Breslau, BD Stein, B Han… - … Care Research and …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
The dependent coverage expansion (DCE), a component of the Affordable Care Act,
required private health insurance policies that cover dependents to offer coverage for …

Beyond health insurance: remaining disparities in US health care in the post‐ACA era

BD Sommers, CL McMURTRY, RJ Blendon… - The Milbank …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Methods: Using a novel 2015 national survey of more than 8,000 Americans, we examined
disparities between low-income and high-income adults and between racial/ethnic …

Health care access and utilization among US immigrants before and after the Affordable Care Act

AV Bustamante, J Chen, RM McKenna… - Journal of immigrant and …, 2019 - Springer
We examine changes in health insurance coverage and access to and utilization of health
care before and after the national implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable …

Treatment use, sources of payment, and financial barriers to treatment among individuals with opioid use disorder following the national implementation of the ACA

RM McKenna - Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2017 - Elsevier
Introduction Despite increasing rates of opioid misuse and hospitalizations, rates of
treatment for those with opioid use disorder (OUD) are very low. This study examined the …

Racial disparities in health care utilization, the affordable care act and racial concordance preference

A Ma, A Sanchez, M Ma - International Journal of Health Economics and …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Affordable Care Act was implemented with the aim of increasing coverage and
affordable access with hopes of improving health outcomes and reducing costs. Yet …

The Affordable Care Act appears to have narrowed racial and ethnic disparities in insurance coverage and access to care among young adults

BJ Lipton, SL Decker… - Medical Care Research …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Prior to the Affordable Care Act, one in three young adults aged 19 to 25 years were
uninsured, with substantial racial/ethnic disparities in coverage. We analyzed the separate …