Escarce Lab

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NIH R01 · 2024

The Medicaid expansion in the age of COVID-19: Effects on coverage, access, use, financial stress, and health.

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has posed an unprecedented threat to the health and well-being of Americans, especially low-income and minority Americans and those in poor health or who lost jobs in the economic downturn. The proposed project will examine the protective effect of access to affordable health insurance for poor and low-income Americans in the setting of major health, economic, and social disruptions to their lives. Access to affordable health insurance differs across states because only 35 states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Medicaid expansion to all working-age adults with incomes below 138% of poverty permitted under the Affordable Care Act. The proposed…

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