Paper Info
Title
Assessing Individual Health Insurance Coverage and Utilization Before and After the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Abstract
The adoption of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act PPACA in 2010 with the intent to improve the U.S. health care delivery system by expanding health insurance coverage and controlling health care costs has generated intense debate regarding its implementation. Marketplaces known as insurance exchanges have been established to provide coverage for Americans who otherwise could not get affordable health care benefits. These exchanges have been plagued with financial losses and other challenges leading to several large insurance providers discontinuing participation in the program. There are many possible remedies under consideration to make the program work better. This research seeks to support program evaluation as well as potential modifications to the law by providing baseline data to compare access and costs in states with state-based exchanges compared to states with federal exchanges. The authors perform an analysis by state for the years 2012 and 2013 pre-PPACA implementation using data from the Current Population Survey U.S. Census as well as de-identified claims data from Inovalon, Inc.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.4018/IJSDS.2016100105
IJSDS
Field
DocType
Volume
Health care,Current Population Survey,Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,Economics,Actuarial science,Health insurance,Self-insurance,Delivery system,Program evaluation
Journal
7
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
4
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Theresa Jefferson100.34
Gloria E. Phillips-wren213918.45
Phoebe Sharkey380.99