Studies from Baylor University College of Medicine Reveal New Findings on Affordable Care Act (Gain in Insurance Coverage and Residual Uninsurance…

Studies from Baylor University College of Medicine Reveal New Findings on Affordable Care Act (Gain in Insurance Coverage and Residual Uninsurance Under the Affordable Care Act: Texas, 2013-2016)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Managed Care Weekly Digest -- Current study results on Affordable Care Act have been published. According to news reporting originating in Houston, Texas, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, "To examine the effects of the Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) Marketplace on Texas residents and determine which population subgroups benefited the most and which the least. We analyzed insurance coverage rates among nonelderly Texas adults using the Health Reform Monitoring Survey-Texas from September 2013, just before the first open enrollment period in the Marketplace, through March 2016."

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the Baylor University College of Medicine, "Texas has experienced a roughly 6-percentage-point increase in insurance coverage (from 74.7% to 80.6%; P = .012) after implementation of the major insurance provisions of the ACA. The 4 subgroups with the largest increases in adjusted insurance coverage between 2013 and 2016 were persons aged 50 to 64 years (12.1 percentage points; P = .002), Hispanics (10.9 percentage points; P = .002), persons reporting fair or poor health status (10.2 percentage points; P = .038), and those with a high school diploma as their highest educational attainment (9.2 percentage points; P = .023). Many population subgroups have benefited from the ACA's Marketplace, but approximately 3 million Texas residents still lack health coverage."

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: "Adopting the ACA's Medicaid expansion is ameans to address the lack of coverage."

For more information on this research see: Gain in Insurance Coverage and Residual Uninsurance Under the Affordable Care Act: Texas, 2013-2016. American Journal of Public Health, 2017;107(1):120-126. American Journal of Public Health can be contacted at: Amer Public Health Assoc Inc, 800 I Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001-3710, USA (see also Affordable Care Act).

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting V. Ho, Baylor College of Medicine, Dept. of Med, Houston, TX 77030, United States. Additional authors for this research include E. Marks and V. Ho.

Keywords for this news article include: Houston, Texas, United States, North and Central America, Affordable Care Act, Baylor University College of Medicine.

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