Arbeitspapier

Did the ACA Medicaid Expansion Save Lives?

We estimate the effect of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on county-level mortality in the first four years following expansion. We find a reduction in all-cause mortality in ages 20 to 64 equaling 11.36 deaths per 100,000 individuals, a 3.6 percent decrease. This estimate is largely driven by reductions in causes of death likely to be influenced by access to health care, and equates to one life saved per 310 newly covered individuals. A cost-benefit analysis shows that the improvement in welfare due to mortality responses may offset the entire net-of-transfers expenditure associated with the expansion.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 12552

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
Health Insurance, Public and Private
Health and Inequality
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
Thema
health insurance
Medicaid
mortality
public health insurance
healthcare
Affordable Care Act

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Borgschulte, Mark
Vogler, Jacob
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2019

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Borgschulte, Mark
  • Vogler, Jacob
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2019

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