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   How did the Affordable Care Act affect low-income people?

   • The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was designed to improve access to health care by expanding insurance coverage. Although some aspects of the ACA applied to people of all socioeconomic strata—such as eliminating exclusions due to preexisting conditions—key features of the law sought to increase coverage among lower-income people specifically.

   The Affordable Care Act Reduced Socioeconomic Disparities In Health

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   Did the Affordable Care Act redistribute income between different populations?

   • The Affordable Care Act (ACA) ushered in the biggest health insurance coverage expansion in the US health care system since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965 and may have redistributed income between different populations.

   The Affordable Care Act Reduced Income Inequality In The US

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   Does the Affordable Care Act affect income inequality?

   • To demonstrate the impact of ACA on income inequality at a point in time, we used the Urban Institute’s Health Insurance Policy Simulation Model to replicate health coverage and costs under the ACA based on the most recent available enrollment data and compared these estimates to a simulated baseline scenario without the ACA.

   The Affordable Care Act Reduced Income Inequality In The US

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   How has the Affordable Care Act changed health care?

   • As the report notes, “Since its passage in 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has helped cut the U.S. uninsured rate nearly in half while significantly reducing racial and ethnic disparities in both insurance coverage and access to care — particularly in states that expanded their Medicaid programs.”

   In depth: How the Affordable Care Act changed America

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   How did the Affordable Care Act affect racial/ethnic minority groups?

   • These disparities in insurance coverage contributed to poorer access to care and worse health outcomes for members of racial/ethnic minority groups. 2–6 By introducing new affordable insurance options for low-income Americans, the ACA had the potential to reduce these disparities and improve access and health among disadvantaged groups.

   The ACA’s Impact On Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Health Insurance

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   How does the Affordable Care Act affect health insurance disparities?

   • Large disparities in health insurance coverage and access to health services have long persisted in the US health care system. We considered how the insurance coverage expansions of the Affordable Care Act have affected disparities related to race and ethnicity.

   The ACA’s Impact On Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Health Insurance

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2. www.healthaffairs.org › doi › 10The Affordable Care Act Reduced Income Inequality In The US

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   To explore the distributional effects of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) expansion of health benefits and the resulting income inequality, this study used alternative income measures...

   • Author: Matthew Buettgens, Fredric Blavin, Clare Pan

   • Publish Year: 2021

3. www.obama.org › stories › 13-years-acaIn depth: How the Affordable Care Act changed America

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   Since 2010, The ACA has given more than 40 million Americans access to health care, expanded Medicaid to 40 states to cover 21 million low-income adults under 65, and protected as many as 133 million with pre-existing conditions from losing their health insurance.

4. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › articles › PMC4940635Effect of the Affordable Care Act on Racial and Ethnic ...

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   The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has made new health insurance options available to uninsured individuals in low- and middle-income households, a group in which Blacks and Hispanics are overrepresented.

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6. www.healthaffairs.org › doi › 10The Affordable Care Act Reduced Socioeconomic Disparities In ...

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   Aug 1, 2017 · In its first two years of full implementation, the ACA improved health care access for Americans in low-income households, people who were not college graduates, and the unemployed.

   • Author: Kevin Griffith, Leigh Evans, Jacob Bor

   • Publish Year: 2017

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   Jul 1, 2020 · In promising to extend health insurance to most of the uninsured, the ACA had the potential to offset the toll that low incomes and financial uncertainty take on the large share of poor and uninsured citizens.

   • Author: Andrea Louise Campbell, Lara Shore-Sheppard

   • Publish Year: 2020

8. www.brookings.edu › articles › potential-effects-ofPotential Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Income Inequality

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   Jan 27, 2014 · The Affordable Care Act will significantly increase net income and boost insurance coverage and for low-income Americans, according to new analysis from Henry Aaron and Gary Burtless.

9. www.healthaffairs.org › doi › 10The ACA’s Impact On Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Health ...

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   By introducing new affordable insurance options for low-income Americans, the ACA had the potential to reduce these disparities and improve access and health among disadvantaged groups.