Exploiting the late adoption of the Medicaid expansion in Pennsylvania and Indiana in 2015, I use both difference-in-differences and the synthetic control method to estimate the effect of the Medicaid expansion on marketplace premiums. The preferred estimates indicate that Medicaid expansion is ...
In the United States, Black and Latinx individuals have higher cancer mortality rates than patients of other races. Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2014, many states expanded Medicaid eligibility, promising significant gains in coverage for racial minorities. But it rem...
by which they mean spending is increasing too fast, while theleftargues that we mainly have a “revenue problem”, by which they mean taxes are too low.
Our analysis of the steel industry focuses on eight states: Alabama, California, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. These eight states had the largest employment in primary metals in 1970, accounting for nearly 69 percent of total primary metals employment in the Unite...
As internet competition has improved in the past decade, one benefit consumers have seen is the phasing out of term contracts. These days, only 24% of internet providers require you to sign a contract, and 13% of them are satellite internet companies. For the rest, you can switch your ser...
17“That Is What the Union Does for Me”In 2013, Indiana governor Mike Pence announced that he would not expand Medicaid health insurance to the state’s poor, even though the expansion was enabled and funded by the federal Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. In the following months, plenty...
As we have seen, many of the candidates, including the so-called moderates, are already playing to the primary voters who tend to lean to the right of the political spectrum. In early April, Jeb Bush praised Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s controversial religious freedom bill, though he backed ...
I find that with Medicaid expansion, insured workers without retirement health insurance (RHI) decreased full-time work by 7.06 percentage points relative to those with RHI and those without any employer-sponsored coverage at all. Among those no longer working full-time, 82 percent transitioned to...
ShoulderMedicaidhealth careaccessdislocateappointmentBackgroundThe purpose of this study was to assess the effect of individual state Medicaid expansion status on access to care for shoulder instability.doi:10.1016/j.jse.2019.07.008Graham E. Kirchner BS...
Recently, a number of states have expanded Medicaid coverage as part of the affordable care act, although it is unclear how this expansion impacts the ability of these patients to obtain access to orthopaedic surgeons. We questioned whether Medicaid patients face additional barriers...