Effects of the Affordable Care Act's young adult insurance expansion on prescription drug insurance coverage, utilization, and expenditures

Effects of the Affordable Care Act's Dependent Coverage Mandate on Private Health Insurance Coverage in Urban and Rural Areas

“…This control group was selected because they overlap closely with the treatment group in key socioeconomic indicators and health status, but their eligibility for insurance coverage was unaffected by the ACA mandate . Individuals with any public health insurance were excluded from the sample, because private coverage was the only viable way to gain coverage as a result of the ACA mandate . After excluding individuals with missing values in demographic and socioeconomic covariates, the final sample combining the pre‐ and post‐periods included 11,042 persons in the young adult group (weighted = 46,825,531) and 13,380 persons in the older cohort (weighted = 55,738,668).…”

“…Beginning September 23, 2010, the US Affordable Care Act's dependent coverage mandate (ACA mandate) extended the age of eligibility for dependent coverage under parents’ health insurance, requiring that all private health plans cover dependents until they reach age 26 . Initial evaluations of the ACA mandate have shown decreases in the number of uninsured young adults after 1 year by increasing rates of private insurance coverage …”

“…adults after 1 year by increasing rates of private insurance coverage. [8][9][10][11][12][13][14] While the goal of the ACA's dependent coverage provision was to expand coverage to all eligible young adults, it is unknown whether the ACA mandate expansion has had an equal impact on insurance coverage among young adults in urban and rural areas. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of the ACA's dependent coverage mandate on insurance coverage among young adults in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas.…”

The History of Insulin Technology: A Brief Review of the Updates in Basal Insulin Therapy Through the Years

“…In the United States, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has generally increased the number of patients with prescription medication coverage and reduced out-of-pocket medication costs (127)(128)(129)(130). Nationally, escalating drug costs are a matter of concern for many patients, their healthcare providers, and payers (129,131,132).…”

Organizational Management Culture and Employers' Health Insurance Offering Strategies in the US: An Ubuntu Based Random Utility Modeling Approach

“…Understanding the employer-sponsored health insurance market is therefore central to understanding the U.S. health care system as a whole. However, much of the literature on Employer-provided Health insurance has focused on the factors affecting workers' insurance coverage decisions (Shane and Ayyagari, 2015;Look and Arora, 2015;Look et al, 2016). Relatively fewer studies (Vistness and Monheit, 1999;O'Brien, 2003;Collins et al, 2005) have looked at employers' decisions to offer the Health coverage in the first place.…”