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The impact of the repeal of the federal individual insurance mandate on uninsurance

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  • Aparna Soni

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The federal individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act, which required people to pay a tax penalty if they did not have health insurance, was repealed in 2019. However, some states implemented state-level insurance mandates which essentially replaced the federal mandate. I use nationally representative survey data from the 2015–19 Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey to compare the probability of becoming newly uninsured among people living in states without state-level insurance mandates versus states with a mandate, before and after the 2019 repeal. In a sample of 214,821 lower-income, nonelderly adults, the repeal of the federal mandate was associated with a 0.5% point, or 24%, increase in the year-over-year probability of becoming newly uninsured. These results suggest that people respond to financial incentives when making insurance enrollment decisions. In the absence of a federal mandate, state-level mandates may reduce transitions to uninsurance.

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  • Aparna Soni, 2022. "The impact of the repeal of the federal individual insurance mandate on uninsurance," International Journal of Health Economics and Management, Springer, vol. 22(4), pages 423-441, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:ijhcfe:v:22:y:2022:i:4:d:10.1007_s10754-022-09324-x
    DOI: 10.1007/s10754-022-09324-x
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    Insurance; Individual mandate; Affordable Care Act;
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    • I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private

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