TY - JOUR
T1 - Effects of the affordable care act on health care access and self-assessed health after 3 years
AU - Courtemanche, Charles
AU - Marton, James
AU - Ukert, Benjamin
AU - Yelowitz, Aaron
AU - Zapata, Daniela
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2018.
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we examine the causal impact of the Affordable Care Act on health-related outcomes after 3 years. We estimate difference-in-difference-in-differences models that exploit variation in treatment intensity from 2 sources: (1) local area prereform uninsured rates from 2013 and (2) state participation in the Medicaid expansion. Including the third postreform year leads to 2 important insights. First, gains in health insurance coverage and access to care from the policy continued to increase in the third year. Second, an improvement in the probability of reporting excellent health emerged in the third year, with the effect being largely driven by the non-Medicaid expansions components of the policy.
AB - Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we examine the causal impact of the Affordable Care Act on health-related outcomes after 3 years. We estimate difference-in-difference-in-differences models that exploit variation in treatment intensity from 2 sources: (1) local area prereform uninsured rates from 2013 and (2) state participation in the Medicaid expansion. Including the third postreform year leads to 2 important insights. First, gains in health insurance coverage and access to care from the policy continued to increase in the third year. Second, an improvement in the probability of reporting excellent health emerged in the third year, with the effect being largely driven by the non-Medicaid expansions components of the policy.
KW - Access to care
KW - Affordable care act
KW - Health
KW - Health care access
KW - Health insurance
KW - Self-assessed health
KW - Self-reported health
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U2 - 10.1177/0046958018796361
DO - 10.1177/0046958018796361
M3 - Article
C2 - 30188235
AN - SCOPUS:85056380243
SN - 0046-9580
VL - 55
JO - Inquiry (United States)
JF - Inquiry (United States)
ER -