2022 OCT 21 (NewsRx) — By a News Reporter – Staff News Editor at Health policy and daily law — A new study on geriatrics and gerontology is now available. According to reports from Iowa City, Iowaby NewsRx correspondents, the research said, “We examine how Medicaid’s expansion of the Affordable Care Act has affected insurance coverage and sources of coverage among low-income health care aides in the aid for the period 2010-2019. American Community Survey The data.”
Our reporters got a quote from the research of University of Iowa: “Insurance coverage for low-income caregivers increased from about 60% to nearly 90% in expanding states, but only reached about 80% in non-expanding states. Using a difference-in-differences regression design, we find that Medicaid expansion was associated with a 5.1 percentage point increase in overall insurance coverage.Expanding states experienced a gain of 12, 2 percentage points in Medicaid which was partially offset by a 6.4 percentage point reduction in private insurance coverage.
According to the news editors, the research concluded, “Our findings show that ACA Medicaid expansion increased insurance coverage for low-income caregivers; however, there was a significant crowding out of private insurance coverage in this population. Policymakers should consider expanding Medicaid while encouraging affordable private health insurance options for low-income caregivers to improve insurance coverage.
For more information on this research, see: Effect of Medicaid expansion on Health insurance for low income people Caregivers. Journal of Applied Gerontology2022. The editor of Journal of Applied Gerontology is SAGE Publications.
A free version of this review article is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/07334648221132121.
Our journalists report that more information can be obtained by contacting Lili Xu, Department of Health Management and Policy, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Other authors of this research include Hari Sharma.
ORCID is an identifier for authors and includes bibliographic information. Here is the ORCID information for the authors of this research: Lili Xu (http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2120-7118), Hari Sharma (http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7857-8545).
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