Effect of the Affordable Care Act on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Insurance Coverage
Author: Buchmueller, T.C.; Levinson, Z.M.; Levy, H.G.; Wolfe, B.L. Description: OBJECTIVES: To document how health insurance coverage changed for White, Black, and Hispanic adults after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) went into effect. METHODS: We used data from the American Community Survey from 2008 to 2014 to examine changes in the percentage of nonelderly adults who were uninsured, covered by Medicaid, or covered by private health insurance. In addition to presenting overall trends by race/ethnicity, we stratified the analysis by income group and state Medicaid expansion status. RESULTS: In 2013,…
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