Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Further Understanding of Healthcare Economics (The Effect of Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansions On Foster Care Admissions): Economics – Healthcare Economics

2021 SEP 28 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- New research on Economics - Healthcare Economics is the subject of a report. According to news reporting from Troy, New York, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Recent papers have documented positive externalities of Medicaid expansions on several non-health related variables, such as crime, financial stress, child support, and child abuse.”

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, “In this paper, we investigate the relationship between access to public health insurance and foster care admissions following state decisions to expand Medicaid coverage after the Affordable Care Act. Over 70% of all foster care admissions are related to child abuse incidents, which have been found to decrease following the Medicaid expansions.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Our results suggest that the Medicaid expansions are associated with a large decrease in foster care admissions, driven by neglect incidents.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: The Effect of Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansions On Foster Care Admissions. Health Economics, 2021. 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)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Jason Huh, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Dept. of Economics, Troy, NY 12180, United States. Additional authors for this research include Louis-Philippe Beland and Dongwoo Kim.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4419. 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.

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