Findings from University of Hawaii Manoa Update Knowledge of Insurance (Who Did the Aca Medicaid Expansion Impact? Estimating the Probability of Being a Complier): Insurance

2023 MAY 15 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx Policy and Law Daily -- Researchers detail new data in Insurance. According to news reporting from Honolulu, Hawaii, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, “Who enrolled in Medicaid as a consequence of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)? Using the 2010-2017 American Community Survey, I estimate how characteristics relating to work status and race/ethnicity affect the probability that an individual will be a complier, defined as those induced by the ACA Medicaid expansion to obtain Medicaid coverage. Across all states, I find that part-time workers, not non-workers, are the most likely to be compliers.”

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from the University of Hawaii Manoa, “This finding is not consistent with certain notions that Medicaid participants are the ‘undeserving poor’ - a sentiment that may have hindered efforts to expand Medicaid in certain states. Additionally, I find that in non-expansion states, many of which have high Black populations, the probability of being a complier is higher for Blacks than for other racial/ethnic groups, suggesting that Black people in non-expansion states would be the largest beneficiaries of any new expansions.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “This paper not only identifies the types of individuals who were already impacted by the expansion but also identifies which populations would benefit the most from subsequent expansions.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Who Did the Aca Medicaid Expansion Impact? Estimating the Probability of Being a Complier. Health Economics, 2023. Health Economics can be contacted at: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA. (Wiley-Blackwell - http://www.wiley.com/; Health Economics - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1050)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Benjamin C. Chu, University of Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4682. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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