Studies from Georgia State University Further Understanding of Medicaid (Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access and Self-Assessed…

Studies from Georgia State University Further Understanding of Medicaid (Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access and Self-Assessed Health After 3 Years)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Managed Care Weekly Digest -- Fresh data on Medicare and Medicaid - Medicaid are presented in a new report. According to news reporting from Atlanta, Georgia, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, "Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we examine the causal impact of the Affordable Care Act on health-related outcomes after 3 years. We estimate difference-in-difference-in-differences models that exploit variation in treatment intensity from 2 sources: (1) local area prereform uninsured rates from 2013 and (2) state participation in the Medicaid expansion."

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Georgia State University, "Including the third postreform year leads to 2 important insights. First, gains in health insurance coverage and access to care from the policy continued to increase in the third year."

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: "Second, an improvement in the probability of reporting excellent health emerged in the third year, with the effect being largely driven by the non-Medicaid expansions components of the policy."

For more information on this research see: Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access and Self-Assessed Health After 3 Years. Inquiry-The Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and Financing, 2018;55():1-10. Inquiry-The Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and Financing can be contacted at: Sage Publications Inc, 2455 Teller Rd, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320, USA (see also Medicare and Medicaid - Medicaid).

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting J. Marton, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, United States. Additional authors for this research include C. Courtemanche, B. Ukert, A. Yelowitz and D. Zapata.

Keywords for this news article include: Atlanta, Georgia, United States, North and Central America, Medicare and Medicaid, Health and Medicine, Risk and Prevention, Health Policy, Legal Issues, Georgia State University.

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