AHRQ Study Tracks Changes In Health Status and Care Use After Affordable Care Act Expansions
On average, the health status of people enrolled in Medicaid was better in 2014 than in 2013 following passage of the Affordable Care Act, according to an AHRQ study published in the July issue ofHealth Affairs. Researchers concluded the change probably occurred because previously uninsured people who signed up for Medicaid coverage were healthier than Medicaid enrollees. By contrast, people with individual private insurance coverage appeared less healthy as a group in 2014 than in 2013. That shift may have occurred because people who previously would have had difficulty purchasing a policy from an insurer were guaranteed access to plans in the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces, researchers concluded. Access the abstract.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2016 Jul 1;35(7):1184-8. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2015.1539.
Changes In Health Status And Care Use After ACA Expansions Among The Insured And Uninsured.
Abstract
Project HOPE—The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.
KEYWORDS:
Cost of Health Care; Health Reform; Insurance Coverage < Insurance, Medicaid
- PMID:
- 27385232
- DOI:
- 10.1377/hlthaff.2015.1539
- [PubMed - in process]
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