New Affordable Care Act Study Findings Recently Were Published by a Researcher at University of Connecticut (Better Late Than Never: Effects of Late ACA Medicaid Expansions for Parents on Family Health-Related Financial Well-Being): Affordable Care Act

2022 NOV 25 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Fresh data on affordable care act are presented in a new report. According to news reporting originating from Storrs, United States, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Public health insurance eligibility for low-income adults has improved adult economic well-being.”

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from University of Connecticut: “But whether parental public health insurance eligibility has spillover effects on children’s health insurance coverage and family health-related financial well-being is less understood. We use the 2016 to 2020 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) to estimate the effects of Medicaid expansions through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for parents on child health insurance coverage, parents’ employment decisions due to child health, and family health-related financial well-being. We compare children in low-income families in states that expanded Medicaid for parents after 2015 to states that never expanded in a difference-in-differences framework. We find that these expansions were associated with increases in children’s public health insurance coverage by 5.5 percentage points and reductions in private coverage by 5 percentage points. We additionally find that parents were less likely to avoid changing jobs for health insurance reasons and children’s medical expenses were less likely to exceed $1000. We find no evidence that the expansions affected children’s dual coverage and uninsurance.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Our estimates are robust to falsification and sensitivity analyzes. Our findings also suggest that benefits on children’s medical expenses are concentrated in the families with the greatest financial need.”

For more information on this research see: Better Late Than Never: Effects of Late ACA Medicaid Expansions for Parents on Family Health-Related Financial Well-Being. INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2022,59. (INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing - https://journals.sagepub.com/home/inq). The publisher for INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing is SAGE Publications.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/00469580221133215.

Our news editors report that more information may be obtained by contacting Caitlin McPherran Lombardi, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CO, United States. Additional authors for this research include Lindsey Rose Bullinger, Maithreyi Gopalan.

ORCID is an identifier for authors and includes bibliographic information. The following is ORCID information for the author of this research: Lindsey Rose Bullinger (http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7990-7363).

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