Presentation Title
The Effects of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion On Breast And Cervical Cancer Screening Rates On Low-income Childless Women
Panel Name
Mental Health and Health Care Policies: Body Image, Maternal Care, and Breast Cancer Risk
Location
Lecture Centre Concourse
Start Date
3-5-2019 3:00 PM
End Date
3-5-2019 5:00 PM
Presentation Type
Poster Session
Academic Major
Economics
Abstract
On March 23rd, 2010, the Obama administration passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) commonly known as Obamacare. One of the main tenets of the ACA aimed at expanding the already existing Medicaid program to cover all adults under the age of 65 with income below 138% of the federal poverty level. Prior to ACA, Federal Health agencies had strict categorical eligibility requirements which excluded childless and non-pregnant women regardless of their income (Adams and Johnston, 2016).
This research focuses on women preventive services rate (Pap smear and mammogram) in states that have expanded Medicaid versus those that did not. Using the self-reported data from 2011-2016 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey, we used a difference-in-difference method to identify the change before and after Medicaid Expansion. We set two hypotheses for this study. The first one is that there will be a gap in screening rates between the expansion states and non-expansion states. The second one is that black women with the lowest level of education are the most affected as preventive care can be costly for uninsured women with low income.
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First Faculty Advisor
Pinka Chatterji
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pchatterji@albany.edu
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Pinka Chatterji
The Effects of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion On Breast And Cervical Cancer Screening Rates On Low-income Childless Women
Lecture Centre Concourse
On March 23rd, 2010, the Obama administration passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) commonly known as Obamacare. One of the main tenets of the ACA aimed at expanding the already existing Medicaid program to cover all adults under the age of 65 with income below 138% of the federal poverty level. Prior to ACA, Federal Health agencies had strict categorical eligibility requirements which excluded childless and non-pregnant women regardless of their income (Adams and Johnston, 2016).
This research focuses on women preventive services rate (Pap smear and mammogram) in states that have expanded Medicaid versus those that did not. Using the self-reported data from 2011-2016 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey, we used a difference-in-difference method to identify the change before and after Medicaid Expansion. We set two hypotheses for this study. The first one is that there will be a gap in screening rates between the expansion states and non-expansion states. The second one is that black women with the lowest level of education are the most affected as preventive care can be costly for uninsured women with low income.