Studies Conducted at University of New Hampshire on Insurance Recently Reported (The Affordable Care Act and Regulation: Coverage Effects of Guaranteed Issue and Ratings Reform): Insurance

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2022 SEP 28 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Investigators publish new report on Insurance. According to news originating from Durham, New Hampshire, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, “An important part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that has received relatively little research attention is regulatory reform in the small and non-group markets, particularly guaranteed issue and rating restrictions.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of New Hampshire, “In order to identify the effect of this part of the ACA, I use states that already had these policies before 2014 as a control group for states newly exposed to them under the ACA. Overall, the reforms do not have any effect in states that expanded Medicaid but are associated with a 1.64 percentage point (or 2.16%) increase in the probability of having health insurance coverage in states that did not expand Medicaid.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Effects are seen across broad age range, and are strongest for those whose incomes are slightly above the Medicaid threshold and qualify them for the highest Marketplace subsidy levels.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: The Affordable Care Act and Regulation: Coverage Effects of Guaranteed Issue and Ratings Reform. Health Economics, 2022. Health Economics can be contacted at: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA. (Wiley-Blackwell - http://www.wiley.com/; Health Economics - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1050)

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Reagan A. Baughman, University of New Hampshire, 10 Garrison Ave, Durham, NH 03857, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4596. 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.