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Title: Impacts of the ACA's Medicaid Expansion on Health Insurance Coverage and Health Care Access among Young Adults
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Publication Year: 2021
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Abstract: Young adults ages 19 to 25 have historically had limited access to both employersponsored insurance and public insurance coverage, resulting in the highest rates of uninsurance among all age groups before passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010. 1 Coverage and access to care for young adults improved following the ACA (Lipton, Decker, and Sommers 2017; McMorrow et al. 2015), with specific improvements attributed to the dependent coverage provision (Antwi, Moriya, and Simon 2013; Cantor et al. 2012; Sommers and Kronick 2012; Sommers et al. 2013; Wallace and Sommers 2015). But to date, no study has examined the specific impacts of the ACA’s Medicaid expansion on young adult coverage and access to care. In this report, we examine trends between 2011 and 2018 in insurance coverage and access to care for young adults ages 19 to 25 and assess the impact of expanding Medicaid eligibility to young adults.
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Authors: Gangopadhyaya, Anuj; Johnston, Emily M
Publisher: Low-Income Working Families
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Population Health and Health Systems
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