New Findings on Insurance from Gettysburg College Summarized (Entrepreneurship Lock and the Demand for Health Insurance: Evidence From the Us Affordable Care Act): Insurance

2024 JAN 03 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Data detailed on Insurance have been presented. According to news originating from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, “Most US workers have health insurance plans sponsored and subsidized by their employers. The US Affordable Care Act (ACA) improved and expanded the availability of non-employer-based health insurance, with protections for pre-existing conditions, guaranteed issue, and community rating in non-group markets.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Gettysburg College, “Using National Health Interview Survey data for 2009 to 2018 and a difference-in-differences modeling approach, this study finds that the ACA increased self-employment in 2015 and 2016 among US adults with higher demand for health insurance. The probability of self-employment increased by 1.4 to 1.8 percentage points among adults ages 30 to 64 with at least one pre-ACA declinable condition and no alternative source of health insurance through a spouse’s employer or public programs. However, these effects were short-lived.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “As uncertainty about the long-term viability of the ACA’s health insurance exchanges increased in 2017 and 2018, the probability of self-employment among individuals with high demand for insurance fell to pre-ACA levels.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Entrepreneurship Lock and the Demand for Health Insurance: Evidence From the Us Affordable Care Act. ILR Review, 2023. ILR Review can be contacted at: Sage Publications Inc, 2455 Teller Rd, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320, USA.

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Margaret E. Blume-Kohout, Gettysburg College, Econ, Gettysburg, PA 17325, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1177/00197939231211561. 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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