ArticleHealth affairs (Project Hope)2021
The Affordable Care Act Increased Medicaid Coverage Among Former Foster Youth.
Article in Health affairs (Project Hope), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Economic insecurity in young adulthood among children maltreated during early adolescence.Child abuse & neglect · 2024Article
- Foster Care and Health in Medicaid-Enrolled Children Experiencing Parental Opioid Use Disorder.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Comparative impact of the affordable care act on breast cancer outcomes among women in two US states.Frontiers in oncology · 2024Article
- Sex-related differences in the prevalence of substance use disorders, treatment, and overdose among parents with young children.Addictive behaviors reports · 2023Article
- Impact of prenatal substance use policies on commercially insured pregnant females with opioid use disorder.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2022Article
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Abstract
Youth aging out of the foster care system in the US are a vulnerable population. When in foster care, youth are eligible for their state's Medicaid program, but they lose eligibility when they age out of foster care. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has the potential to address some of the health care needs of former foster youth through the Medicaid eligibility expansion to low-income adults and by extending Medicaid eligibility up to age twenty-six for former foster youth. Using the 2011-18 National Youth in Transition Database, we found that Medicaid expansion increased Medicaid coverage among former foster youth by 10.1 percentage points, and the age extension increased coverage by 3.4 percentage points. There is suggestive evidence of positive spillovers for both policies. Our findings imply that the ACA improved Medicaid coverage among former foster youth, with the largest effects from Medicaid expansion. The modest effects of the Medicaid age extension may imply a need to revise enrollment, recertification, outreach, and eligibility determination processes to further increase Medicaid coverage among former foster youth.
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