Findings in Medicare and Medicaid Reported from Ohio State University (Medicaid Expansion and ACA Repeal: Evidence From Ohio)

Managed Care Weekly Digest

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Managed Care Weekly Digest -- New research on Medicare and Medicaid is the subject of a report. According to news reporting out of Columbus, Ohio, by NewsRx editors, research stated, "To examine the health insurance coverage options for Medicaid expansion enrollees if the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is repealed, using evidence from Ohio, where more than half a million adults have enrolled in the state's Medicaid program through the ACA expansion. The Ohio Medicaid Assessment Survey interviewed 42 000 households in 2015."

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Ohio State University, "We report data from a unique battery of questions designed to identify insurance coverage immediately prior to Medicaid enrollment. Ninety-five percent of new Medicaid enrollees in Ohio did not have a private health insurance option immediately before enrollment. These new enrollees are predominantly older, low-income Whites with a high school education or less. Only 5% of new Medicaid enrollees were eligible for an employer-sponsored insurance plan to which they could potentially return in the case of repeal of the ACA. The vast majority of Medicaid expansion enrollees would have no plausible pathway to obtaining private-sector insurance if the ACA were repealed."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "Demographic similarities between the expansion population and 2016 exit polls suggest that coverage losses would fall disproportionately on members of the winning Republican coalition."

For more information on this research see: Medicaid Expansion and ACA Repeal: Evidence From Ohio. American Journal of Public Health, 2017;107(6):889-892. American Journal of Public Health can be contacted at: Amer Public Health Assoc Inc, 800 I Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001-3710, USA (see also Medicare and Medicaid).

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting E.E. Seiber, Ohio State University, Coll Public Hlth, Div Hlth Serv Management & Policy, Columbus, OH 43210, United States.

Keywords for this news article include: Columbus, Ohio, United States, North and Central America, Medicare and Medicaid, Health Insurance, Health Policy, Medicaid, Ohio State University.