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Title: Changes in Health Insurance Coverage 2013–2016: Medicaid Expansion States Lead the Way
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Publication Year: 2018
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Abstract: The primary health insurance coverage reforms of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) began to take effect on January 1, 2014. Between 2013 and 2016, the most recent year of American Community Survey (ACS) data available, the share of nonelderly Americans aged 0 to 64 without health insurance fell from 17.0 percent to 10.0 percent, meaning 18.5 million more Americans with health insurance coverage during the first three years of ACA implementation. Virtually all of these gains are attributable to the ACA, as uninsurance had been predicted to be stable over this period without the ACA.1 Moreover, there were secular declines in employer-sponsored insurance between 2000 and 2013.2 Holding demographic, socioeconomic, and region characteristics constant, we . . .
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Authors: Skopec, Laura; Holahan, John; Elmendorf, Caroline
Publisher: Urban Institute
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Health, Other, Population Health and Health Systems
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