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Daniela Zapata
Researcher at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Publications - 36
Citations - 981
Daniela Zapata is an academic researcher from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicaid & Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 34 publications receiving 821 citations. Previous affiliations of Daniela Zapata include University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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Early Impacts of the Affordable Care Act on Health Insurance Coverage in Medicaid Expansion and Non-Expansion States
TL;DR: The causal effects of the ACA on health insurance coverage in 2014 using data from the American Community Survey are estimated using difference- in-difference-in-differences models that exploit cross-sectional variation in the intensity of treatment arising from state participation in the Medicaid expansion and local area pre-ACA uninsured rates.
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Does Universal Coverage Improve Health? The Massachusetts Experience
TL;DR: Evidence is provided that health care reform in Massachusetts led to better overall self-assessed health and improvements in several determinants of overall health: physical health, mental health, functional limitations, joint disorders, and body mass index.
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Does Universal Coverage Improve Health? The Massachusetts Experience
TL;DR: In 2006, Massachusetts passed health care reform legislation designed to achieve nearly universal coverage through a combination of insurance market reforms, mandates, and subsidies that later served as the model for national reform as mentioned in this paper.
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Early Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access, Risky Health Behaviors, and Self‐Assessed Health
TL;DR: Examination of the impacts of the Affordable Care Act on health care access, risky health behaviors, and self-assessed health after two years suggests that the ACA led to sizeable improvements in access to health care in both Medicaid expansion and non-expansion states.
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Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access and Self-Assessed Health After 3 Years
TL;DR: An improvement in the probability of reporting excellent health emerged in the third year, with the effect being largely driven by the non-Medicaid expansions components of the policy.