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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Medicaid Expansion"”.
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Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Adherence to Antidiabetic Medications Among Low-Income Adults
… significant barriers adhering to drug regimens. Medicaid, the primary source of health insurance among low-income people, mitigates access and cost barriers by providing access to health services and prescription drugs at a reduced cost. In 2014, Medicaid expansion, a provision of the Patient …
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Examining the effects of the Medicaid expansion on: Social welfare, healthcare utilization, and uncompensated care
… three chapters examining various effects of the Medicaid expansion through the Affordable Care Act (ACA). I explore the topic of implementation and how it can lead to reformulation of policies, to other outcomes not expected, or even to outright failure. I then apply the theory of implementation …
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Three Essays on the Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Cancer Care and Mis-Measured Self-Reports of Cancer Screening Status
… examines the impact of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion on time to oral cancer treatment initiation since diagnosis, quality of hospital care such as length of stay in the hospital, planned and unplanned readmissions post-surgery, and care outcome such as ninety-day mortality since …
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The U.S. Opioid Crisis and the Affordable Care Act (ACA): The Politics of Health Policy Decision-Making by Republican Governors, Senators, and States
… (ACA) in 2010 represented the most significant expansion of access to healthcare and health insurance in the modern United States. Support for the ACA, as well as a major component Medicaid expansion, was significantly dictated by partisan affiliation; Republicans largely opposed the bill while …
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Three Essays in Health Insurance
… health insurance enrollees?”, “The Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Coverage Among Those Lacking Housing Basics, 2010-19” and “Health Insurance Coverage Changes under Affordable Care Act among High Housing Cost Households, 2010-19”. My first chapter conducts factor importance analysis on the …
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Essays in Applied Economics Linking Policy, Obesity, and Health Economics
… Chronic Disease Conditions: Evidence from 2014 Medicaid Expansion. This study examined health insurance coverage rates among low-income adults with chronic disease conditions before and after Medicaid expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Data for this study was …
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The effect of the ACA Medicaid expansions on mortality : evidence from state border counties.
… effects of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid Reform on adult mortality at the county level. This thesis uses a difference-in-difference (DD) causal inference research design to study the impacts of the ACA Medicaid expansion on adult mortality rates and the spillover effects …
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Essays on Inequalities in Labor and Health
… for women relative to men.</p> <p>Chapter 3. The Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) aimed to improve health coverage for low-income population. However, unintended consequences are believed to relate to work effort. This paper aims to quantify the impact of the ACA Medicaid …
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Interdepdence Of Community Mental Health Care Providers In An Urban County: A Spatial Panel Approach
… significance of mental health managed care and Medicaid expansion. As the first study to consider this feature of the mental health care system, the results provide theoretical insights to policy makers.</p>
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Examining the state policies and external organizational ties that affect women’s access to and engagement in substance use disorder treatment services
… macro-level public policies, particularly the expansion of Medicaid with the Affordable Care Act and state laws that specifically criminalize drug use by mothers. In Study 1, I reviewed the literature on access to SUD treatment services among pregnant women and women who have children. I found …
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Medicaid Administrative Costs: Trends, Expansion Effects, and Express Lane Eligibility
Medicaid covers 21% of Americans which includes over 65 million children and adults, making it the largest single source of health insurance for Americans. As a public program jointly administered between the federal and state governments, states exhibit substantial control over the structure of …
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Essays on insurance
… the effects of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on a number of labor supply indicators and find no significant evidence of a labor supply response.
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Contextual Factors and Reproductive Control in U.S. Women
… States were classified based on 2006 Medicaid family planning waiver status (income expansions, limited expansions, or no Medicaid family planning expansions), 2006 public funding for family planning in dollars per woman, and insurance coverage of contraceptive mandate status …
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Postcolonialism and the Marshallese Diaspora: Structural Violence and Health in the Marshallese Community in Springdale, Arkansas
… of the publicly funded health benefits (e.g., Medicaid) they were promised in the original COFA. While Marshallese COFA migrants are eligible for subsidized health insurance plans offered by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010, the Marshallese </p> <p>community’s low income qualifies them for …
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An Examination of How National Policies are Driving Population Health Outcomes and Organizational Change in Private and Public Sectors
… addressing tobacco use with policies to increase Medicaid coverage for tobacco cessation services, and 3) an empirical examination to identify hospital strategic partnerships to address population health and determine hospital and market characteristics associated with these partnerships. The main …
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Health Care and Policy Interventions to Improve the Health of Patients Experiencing Homelessness
… state-level panel data to examine the impact of Medicaid expansion on rates of adult homelessness by comparing states that opted to expand their Medicaid eligibility requirements under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) with states that did not. Finally, the third study uses multiple years of national …
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Essays in health economics and public policy
… estimate the effect of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on county-level mortality in the first four years following expansion using restricted-access microdata covering all deaths in the United States. To adjust for pre-expansion differences in mortality rates between treatment and …
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The Incentive Effects of Health Insurance on Labor Market Outcomes and SSDI/SSI Utilization
… impact of the Employer Sponsored Insurance (ESI) expansion, part of the 2006 Massachusetts health reform, on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) participation decisions. I exploit the variation across SSDI beneficiaries among married couples to identify the causal effect of the reform. I …
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THE EFFECTS OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT ON PHARMACEUTICAL PRICES, DEMAND, AND INNOVATION
… 2010 (ACA) led to the largest health insurance expansion in the U.S. since Medicare and Medicaid were introduced in 1965. This dissertation studies the causal effects of the ACA on pharmaceutical prices, demand, and innovation using a difference-in-differences framework with continuous treatment …