New Health Insurance Research from Hastings Center Discussed (Inequalities in hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in New York City before and after the affordable care act): Health Insurance

2023 AUG 24 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Investigators publish new report on health insurance. According to news reporting originating from Garrison, New York, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law by U.S.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Hastings Center: “President Obama in 2010 and fully implemented in 2014. The ACA expanded health insurance by expanding the Medicaid program, creating health insurance exchanges (now called “marketplaces”) in which people with incomes between 139% and 400% of the federal poverty level, could purchase subsidized insurance coverage, and by regulating health insurance to eliminate practices such as denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions, or basing premiums on health status. We investigate the effects of the ACA’s implementation on access to ambulatory health services in New York City by comparing rates of hospitalizations for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSC) before and after the full implementation of the law.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Although the ACA was associated with a significant decrease in the rate of ACSC in NYC, we find that there continue to be systemic inequalities by gender, race, ethnicity, income, and insurance status. We argue that the broader social and economic inequalities at the national and state levels, including tax and spending policies that have led to increased income and wealth inequalities, help explain why we see persistent inequalities in hospitalizations for ACSC.”

For more information on this research see: Inequalities in hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in New York City before and after the affordable care act. World Medical & Health Policy, 2022. The publisher for World Medical & Health Policy is Wiley.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1002/wmh3.548.

Our news journalists report that more information may be obtained by contacting Daniel Weisz, Research Scholar, Department of Research, Hastings Center, Garrison New York, United States. Additional authors for this research include Michael K. Gusmano, Victor G. Rodwin.

ORCID is an identifier for authors and includes bibliographic information. The following is ORCID information for the author of this research: Michael K. Gusmano (http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2337-3067).

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