New Findings from University of Iowa Describe Advances in Medical Research (The Effects of Aca Medicaid Expansions On Health After 5 Years)

2021 APR 16 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Investigators publish new report on Health and Medicine - Medical Research. According to news reporting originating from Iowa City, Iowa, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “We examine the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion effects on self-rated health status over 5 years. The study uses data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System for 2011-2018 and a difference-in-differences design.”

Financial support for this research came from NIH National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research (NIDCR).

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from the University of Iowa, “There is improvement in health status on a 1 to 5 point scale from poor to excellent health among individuals below 100% of the federal poverty line by 0.031, 0.068, 0.031, 0.064, and 0.087 points in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018, respectively. Changes in 2015, 2017, and 2018 are statistically significant (p < .05), and the 2014 change is marginally significant. The difference between 2014 and 2018 effects is statistically significant (p < .05). In most years, we cannot distinguish changes in days not in good physical or mental health from no effect.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Overall, there is only minimal evidence for effects intensifying over time, suggesting that health gains thus far have mostly occurred early on due to unmet needs among those previously uninsured.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: The Effects of Aca Medicaid Expansions On Health After 5 Years. Medical Care Research and Review, 2020. Medical Care Research and Review can be contacted at: Sage Publications Inc, 2455 Teller Rd, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320, USA.

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting George L. Wehby, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States. Additional authors for this research include Jason Semprini, Wei Lyu and Dan M. Shane.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1177/1077558720972592. 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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