Aparna Soni is a PhD candidate in the Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Indiana University, in Bloomington.
Marguerite E. Burns is an assistant professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2017 Aug 1;36(8):1485-1488. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2016.1632.
The Affordable Care Act made low-income nonelderly adults eligible for Medicaid in 2014 without requiring them to obtain disabled status through the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. In states that participated in the Medicaid expansion, we found that SSI participation decreased by about 3 percent after 2014.
平价医疗法案于 2014 年使低收入非老年成年人有资格获得医疗补助,而无需通过补充保障收入(SSI)计划获得残疾身份。在参与医疗补助扩大计划的州,我们发现 2014 年后 SSI 的参与率下降了约 3%。