Wednesday, July 20, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
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In 2019, Virginia expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, extending coverage to more than 500,000 low-income adults
in the state by the end of 2021.
In their ahead-of-print article published today, Hannah Shadowen and coauthors analyze results from the Medicaid Expansion New Member Survey, for which the follow-up survey period overlapped with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Their findings offer insights on the impact of public health insurance in a time of
economic and public health crisis.
They find that Medicaid enrollment was significantly associated with decreases in reporting nonmedical financial needs and decreases in concern about medical costs and medical debts.
Shadowen and coauthors report 5.0 and 7.7 percentage-point decreases in the likelihood of respondents being concerned about paying for housing costs and food, respectively, after twelve months of enrollment compared with the year before enrollment.
Further, the likelihood of being concerned about the cost of normal health care and the cost of catastrophic health care decreased by 33.7 percentage points and 23.8 percentage points, respectively.
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