| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w22265 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 22265 |
| The Impact of Health Insurance on Preventive Care and Health Behaviors: Evidence from the 2014 ACA Medicaid Expansions | |
| Kosali Simon; Aparna Soni; John Cawley | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-05-23 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The U.S. population receives suboptimal levels of preventive care and has a high prevalence of risky health behaviors. One goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to increase preventive care and improve health behaviors by expanding access to health insurance. This paper estimates how the ACA-facilitated state-level expansions of Medicaid in 2014 affected these outcomes. Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, and a difference-in-differences model that compares states that did and did not expand Medicaid, we examine the impact of the expansions on preventive care (e.g. dental visits, immunizations, mammograms, cancer screenings), risky health behaviors (e.g. smoking, heavy drinking, lack of exercise, obesity), and self-assessed health. We find that the expansions increased insurance coverage and access to care among the targeted population of low-income childless adults. The expansions also increased use of certain forms of preventive care but there is no evidence that they increased ex ante moral hazard (i.e., there is no evidence that risky health behaviors increased in response to health insurance coverage). The Medicaid expansions also modestly improved self-assessed health. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Education |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22265 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579937 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Kosali Simon,Aparna Soni,John Cawley. The Impact of Health Insurance on Preventive Care and Health Behaviors: Evidence from the 2014 ACA Medicaid Expansions. 2016. |
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| w22265.pdf（762KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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