We use large-scale federal survey data linked to administrative death records to investigate the relationship between Medicaid enrollment and mortality. Our analysis compares …
Importance Medicare provides nearly universal health insurance to individuals at age 65 years. How eligibility for Medicare affects racial and ethnic disparities in access to care and …
Importance Relatively little is known about the association of the Medicaid eligibility expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with emergency department …
There is substantial interest in using urgent care centers to decrease lower-acuity emergency department (ED) visits. Using 2008–19 insurance claims and enrollment data …
We exploit changes in the discontinuity in health insurance coverage at age 65 induced by the implementation of the Affordable Care Act to examine effects on coverage, hospital use …
This paper investigates how the expansion of social insurance affects households' accumulation of debt. Insurance can reduce reliance on debt by lessening the financial …
A Dunn, M Knepper, S Dauda - Journal of Health Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The 2010 Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (ACA) significantly expanded access to private and public health insurance for low-income individuals through income …
Recent papers have documented positive externalities of Medicaid expansions on several non‐health related variables, such as crime, financial stress, child support, and child abuse …
Objective: Using data on 5 years of postexpansion experience, we examined whether the coverage gains from Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion among Black, Hispanic, and …