The Effect of the Affordable Care Act on Coverage

What is it about?

This paper examines what effect the regulations in the Affordable Care Act had on health insurance coverage, specifically excluding the effects of subsidies and the Medicaid expansion.

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Why is it important?

The regulations in the Affordable Care Act (as opposed to the subsidies and Medicaid expansion) have potentially ambiguous effects on coverage, which has led to public policy and political debates on whether and how to reform the law. This paper contributes to that debate by showing that the regulations increased coverage on net.