Impact of the Medicaid expansions on heart disease mortality in the United States: A county-level analysis

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ECONOMIC AFFAIRS Pub Date : 2025-02-12 DOI:10.1111/ecaf.12685

Grady King, Srinivas Palanki

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Abstract

Despite the significant changes that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has made to the US healthcare system since 2010, little statistical analysis of its impact on the deadliest chronic diseases has been made. County-level data from the United States is used in conjunction with difference-in-difference models to isolate the effect of the Affordable Care Act on preventable deaths due to heart disease. Our national causal inference analysis found a significant decrease of preventable heart disease mortality due to the Medicaid expansions.

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医疗补助扩大对美国心脏病死亡率的影响：一项县级分析

尽管自2010年以来，《平价医疗法案》（ACA）对美国医疗体系做出了重大改变，但关于其对最致命的慢性疾病影响的统计分析却很少。来自美国的县级数据与差中差模型结合使用，以分离《负担得起的医疗法案》对可预防的心脏病死亡的影响。我们的全国因果推理分析发现，由于医疗补助计划的扩大，可预防的心脏病死亡率显著下降。

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ECONOMIC AFFAIRS ECONOMICS-

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1.40

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14.30%

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