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Research Update: NBER Studies Look at Medicaid Expansion and Mortality and Impact of Cost-Sharing On Prescription Drug Use
Two recent working papers from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) demonstrate how health policy decisions can affect mortality. The first examines how the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion reduces mortality and the second examines the mortality effects of cost-sharing for prescription drugs. Medicaid and Mortality: New Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data, […]
Study on Intergenerational Health Mobility Provides Strong Case for Early Childhood Interventions
Examining how children’s health compares to the health of their parents can offer valuable insight into the individual, family, and community-level factors that affect a child’s health status. This is the aim of a new Health Affairs article from Jason Fletcher and Katie Jajtner at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which seeks to bring an intergenerational […]
Medicaid Expansion Increased Preventive Care for Pregnant and Postpartum Women, New Study Finds
Medicaid expansion increased the use of key preventive health services by women before and after pregnancy, a new study published in Health Affairs found. The findings add to the evidence that expanding Medicaid coverage to all low-income adults does translate into more utilization of preventive care that can improve the health and wellbeing of women […]
KFF Brief Points to Need for Greater Investment in Consumer Assistance to Connect People to Health Coverage
This week, I’m reading findings from a new Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) brief about who uses consumer assistance programs established under the Affordable Care Act, who does and does not get help, why they seek assistance, and the difference the programs can make in consumers’ ability to obtain health coverage. Kaiser Family Foundation’s Consumer Assistance […]