ArticleHealth services research2017
Reducing Young Adults' Health Care Spending through the ACA Expansion of Dependent Coverage.
Article in Health services research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Impact of Coinsurance Reduction Policy on Healthcare Utilization Among Children Under 15.Journal of Korean medical science · 2023Article
- Disparities in Medical Debt Among U.S. Adults with Serious Psychological Distress.Health equity · 2020Article
- Health Care Access and Utilization Among U.S. Immigrants Before and After the Affordable Care Act.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2019Article
- Inequalities in Young Adult Health Insurance Coverage Post-federal Health Reform.Journal of general internal medicine · 2019Article
- Impact of an Individual Mandate and Other Health Reforms on Dependent Coverage for Adolescents and Young Adults.Health services research · 2018Article
- Lower barriers to primary care after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in the United States of America.Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2018Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo estimate health care expenditure trends among young adults ages 19-25 before and after the 2010 implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) provision that extended eligibility for dependent private health insurance coverage. DATA SOURCES: Nationally representative Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data from 2008 to 2012. STUDY
designWe conducted repeated cross-sectional analyses and employed a difference-in-differences quantile regression model to estimate health care expenditure trends among young adults ages 19-25 (the treatment group) and ages 27-29 (the control group). PRINCIPAL
findingsOur results show that the treatment group had 14 percent lower overall health care expenditures and 21 percent lower out-of-pocket payments compared with the control group in 2011-2012. The overall reduction in health care expenditures among young adults ages 19-25 in years 2011-2012 was more significant at the higher end of the health care expenditure distribution. Young adults ages 19-25 had significantly higher emergency department costs at the 10th percentile in 2011-2012. Differences in the trends of costs of private health insurance and doctor visits are not statistically significant.
conclusionsIncreased health insurance enrollment as a consequence of the ACA provision for dependent coverage has successfully reduced spending and catastrophic expenditures, providing financial protections for young adults.
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