Medicaid Expansion and the Unemployed

Thomas C. Buchmueller, Helen Levy and Robert Valletta

Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, vol. 39, issue S2, S575 - S617

Abstract: We examine how a key provision of the Affordable Care Act—the expansion of Medicaid eligibility—affected health insurance coverage, access to care, and labor market transitions of unemployed workers. Comparing trends in states that implemented the Medicaid expansion to those that did not, we find that the expansion substantially increased insurance coverage and improved access to health care among unemployed workers. We then test whether the expansion affected transitions from unemployment to employment or out of the labor force. We find no meaningful statistical evidence in support of moral hazard effects that reduce job finding or labor force attachment.

Date: 2021
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