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Who Gained Insurance Coverage
in 2014, the
First Year
of Full ACA Implementation?

Charles Courtemanche,

James Marton,

and Aaron Yelowitz

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The most significant pieces of the Affordable Care Act (exchanges, subsidies, Medicaid expansion, and individual mandate), implemented in 2014, were associated with sizable gains in coverage nationally that were divided equally between gains in Medicaid and private coverage. These national trends mask heterogeneity in gains by state Medicaid expansion status, age, income level, and source of coverage.

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