Health Payer Intelligence January 14, 2021
The ACA reduced income inequality within and between social determinant of health categories, especially for states with Medicaid expansion.
Affordable Care Act (ACA) expansion led to reduced income inequality, especially in states that enhanced Medicaid, according to a new study published in Health Affairs.
Additionally, the ACA reduced within-group and between-group income inequality based on the following social determinants of health: race/ethnicity, age, and family educational attainment.
The researchers’ evidence warns of a reversal in reduced inequality if efforts to repeal the ACA like California v. Texas come to fruition. Based on a projection that accounts for COVID-19, more than twenty million people would lose health insurance if the ACA were to be repealed.
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