What The Study Did:
This observational study looked at the association between Medicaid expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and long-term home health care and nursing home use among newly eligible low-income adults and older adults whose eligibility did not change.
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Courtney Harold Van Houtven, Ph.D., of the Durham Veterans Affairs Health Care System in Durham, North Carolina, is the corresponding author.
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