Gain in Insurance Coverage and Residual Uninsurance Under the Affordable Care Act: Texas, 2013–2016.

Objectives.To examine the effects of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) Marketplace on Texas residents and determine which population subgroups benefited the most and which the least. Methods. We analyzed insurance coverage rates among nonelderly Texas adults using the Health Reform Monitoring Survey...

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Publicado en:American Journal of Public Health Vol. 107; no. 1; pp. 120 - 127
Autores principales: Pickett, Stephen, Marks, Elena, Ho, Vivian
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: American Public Health Association Jan2017
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          Pickett, Stephen
          Marks, Elena
          Ho, Vivian
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          Department of Economics, Rice University, Houston, TX.
          Episcopal Health Foundation, Houston.
          Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University.
          Baker Institute for Public Policy and the Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston.
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        United States
        Texas
        Insurance
        Age distribution
        Medicaid
        Race
        Sex distribution
        Socioeconomic factors
        Health & social status
        Medically uninsured persons
        Probability theory
        Logistic regression analysis
        Disease prevalence
        Data analysis software
        Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act
        Health insurance exchanges
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          Insurance
          Age distribution
          Medicaid
          Race
          Sex distribution
          Socioeconomic factors
          Health & social status
          United States
          Texas
          Other Insurance Funds
          Third Party Administration of Insurance and Pension Funds
          All Other Insurance Related Activities
          Administration of Human Resource Programs (except Education, Public Health, and Veterans' Affairs Programs)
          Medically uninsured persons
          Probability theory
          Logistic regression analysis
          Disease prevalence
          Data analysis software
          Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act
          Health insurance exchanges
      ab: Objectives.To examine the effects of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) Marketplace on Texas residents and determine which population subgroups benefited the most and which the least. Methods. We analyzed insurance coverage rates among nonelderly Texas adults using the Health Reform Monitoring Survey-Texas from September 2013, just before the first open enrollment period in the Marketplace, through March 2016. Results. Texas has experienced a roughly 6–percentage-point increase in insurance coverage (from 74.7% to 80.6%; P= .012) after implementation of the major insurance provisions of the ACA. The 4 subgroups with the largest increases in adjusted insurance coverage between 2013 and 2016 were persons aged 50 to 64 years (12.1 percentage points; P = .002), Hispanics (10.9 percentage points;P = .002),persons reporting fair or poor health status (10.2 percentage points; P = .038), and those with a high school diploma as their highest educational attainment (9.2 percentage points; P = .023). Conclusions. Many population subgroups have benefited from the ACA’s Marketplace, but approximately 3 million Texas residents still lack health coverage. Adopting the ACA’s Medicaid expansion is a means to address the lack of coverage.
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