Investigators at Harvard University Release New Data on Health Insurance (The Affordable Care Act’s insurance market regulations’ effect on coverage)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- Current study results on Health Insurance have been published. According to news reporting originating in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by VerticalNews editors, the research stated, "Much of the debate surrounding reform of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) revolves around its insurance market regulation. This paper studies the impact on health insurance coverage of those provisions."

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Harvard University, "Using data from the American Community Survey, years 2008-2015, I focus on individuals, ages 26 to 64, who are ineligible for the subsidies or Medicaid expansions included in the ACA to isolate the effect of its market regulation. To account for time trends, I utilize a differences-in-differences approach with a control group of residents of Massachusetts who were already subject to a similarly regulated health insurance market. I find that the ACA's regulations caused an increase of 0.95 percentage points in health insurance coverage for my sample in 2014."

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: "This increase was concentrated among younger individuals, suggesting that the law's regulations ameliorated adverse selection in the individual health insurance market."

For more information on this research see: The Affordable Care Act's insurance market regulations' effect on coverage. Health Economics, 2017;():. (Wiley-Blackwell - www.wiley.com/; Health Economics - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1050)

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting G. Wettstein, Dept. of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.3585. 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.

Keywords for this news article include: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, Health Insurance, North and Central America.

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