Affordable Care Act Impact in Kentucky: Increasing Access, Reducing Disparities

To examine health insurance disparities since Kentucky's implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Using the American Community Survey, we estimated coverage rates by race/ethnicity before and after implementation of the ACA (2013 and 2015), and we estimated whether groups were over- or...

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Published in:American journal of public health (1971) 2018-07, Vol.108 (7), p.924-929
Main Authors: Blewett, Lynn A, Planalp, Colin, Alarcon, Giovann
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access
Accounting
Adolescent
Adult
African Americans
African Americans/Blacks
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
AJPH Policy
Bevin, Matt
Black people
Child
Child, Preschool
Childrens health insurance programs
Cross-Sectional Studies
Cultural differences
Enrollments
Ethnic factors
Ethnic groups
Ethnicity
Ethnicity - statistics & numerical data
Government programs
Health care
Health care industry
Health care policy
Health insurance
Health Policy
Health Reform
Hispanic Americans
Historical account
Humans
Implementation
Indigent care
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Insurance coverage
Insurance Coverage - statistics & numerical data
Insurance, Health - statistics & numerical data
Kentucky
Medicaid
Medicaid - statistics & numerical data
Medically Uninsured - ethnology
Medically Uninsured - statistics & numerical data
Middle Aged
Minority & ethnic groups
Other Race/Ethnicity
Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act 2010-US
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - statistics & numerical data
Population
Public health
Race
Racial Groups - statistics & numerical data
Statistical significance
Uninsured people
United States
White people
Young Adult
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Summary:To examine health insurance disparities since Kentucky's implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Using the American Community Survey, we estimated coverage rates by race/ethnicity before and after implementation of the ACA (2013 and 2015), and we estimated whether groups were over- or underrepresented among the uninsured, compared with their share of the state population. Kentucky's uninsurance rate declined from 14.4% in 2013 to 6.1% in 2015 (P 
ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2018.304413