An Empirical Evaluation On The Effectiveness Of Medicaid Expansion Across 49 States

• Tác giả: Tung Yu Marco Chan
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 610.9172 Medicine and health
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2020
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 165845

Tóm tắt

In 2014 the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) introduced the expansion of Medicaid where states can opt to expand the eligibility for those in need of free health insurance. In this paper, we attempt to assess the effectiveness of Medicaid expansion on health outcomes of state populations using Difference-in-Difference (DD) regressions to seek for causal impacts of expanding Medicaid on health outcomes in 49 states. We find that in the time frame of 2013 to 2016, Medicaid expansion seems to have had no significant impact on the health outcomes of states that have chosen to expand.