Premium Subsidies, the Mandate, and Medicaid Expansion: Coverage Effects of the Affordable Care Act

Molly Frean, Jonathan Gruber, Benjamin D. Sommers

NBER Working Paper No. 22213
Issued in April 2016, Revised in December 2016

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This project was supported by grant number K02HS021291 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). We are grateful to Kosali Simon, Jenny Kenney, participants in the economics research seminar series at the University of Virginia, and the 6th Biennial Conference of the American Society of Health Economists for helpful comments. Dr. Sommers has received research grants from AHRQ, the Commonwealth Fund, and the National Institute for Health Care Management. He served as a paid part-time advisor for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from Sept. 2012 through June 2016, and he is an unpaid member of the National Advisory Board for the non-profit Institute for Medicaid Innovation. The authors have no other disclosures to report. This paper does not represent the views of HHS, AHRQ, or the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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