Borgschulte, Mark; Vogler, Jacob - 2019
We estimate the effect of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on county-level mortality in the first four years … following expansion. We find a reduction in all-cause mortality in ages 20 to 64 equaling 11.36 deaths per 100,000 individuals … access to health care, and equates to one life saved per 310 newly covered individuals. A cost-benefit analysis shows that …