New Health Insurance Study Results Reported from City University of New York (Estimating The Effects Of Health Insurance And Other Social Programs On…

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New Health Insurance Study Results Reported from City University of New York (Estimating The Effects Of Health Insurance And Other Social Programs On Poverty Under The Affordable Care Act)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- Investigators discuss new findings in Health Insurance. According to news reporting from New York City, New York, by VerticalNews journalists, research stated, "The effects of health insurance on poverty have been difficult to ascertain because US poverty measures have not taken into account the need for health care and the value of health benefits. We developed the first US poverty measure to include the need for health insurance and to count health insurance benefits as resources available to meet that need-in other words, a health-inclusive poverty measure."

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from the City University of New York, "We estimated the direct effects of health insurance benefits on health-inclusive poverty for people younger than age sixty-five, comparing the impacts of different health insurance programs and of nonhealth means-tested cash and in-kind benefits, refundable tax credits, and nonhealth social insurance programs. Private health insurance benefits reduced poverty by 3.7 percentage points. Public health insurance benefits (from Medicare, Medicaid, and Affordable Care Act premium subsidies) accounted for nearly one-third of the overall poverty reduction from public benefits. Poor adults with neither children nor a disability experienced little poverty relief from public programs, and what relief they did receive came mostly from premium subsidies and other public health insurance benefits."

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: "Medicaid had a larger effect on child poverty than all nonhealth means-tested benefits combined."

For more information on this research see: Estimating The Effects Of Health Insurance And Other Social Programs On Poverty Under The Affordable Care Act. Health Affairs, 2017;36(10):1828-1837. Health Affairs can be contacted at: Project Hope, 7500 Old Georgetown Rd, Ste 600, Bethesda, MD 20814-6133, USA.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting D.K. Remler, CUNY, Inst Demog Res, New York, NY 10021, United States. Additional authors for this research include S.D. Korenman and R.T. Hyson.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2017.0331. 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: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America, Medicare and Medicaid, Health Insurance, Health Policy, Public Health, City University of New York.