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The Effect Of The Affordable Care Act's Medicaid Eligibility Expansion On Labor Supply, Shannon Hebert

Senior Theses and Projects

Medicaid is a program that uses funds from the states and federal government to provide healthcare coverage to millions of Americans. A key goal of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to expand Medicaid eligibility to include all adults with income below 138 percent of the federal poverty level. Unintended labor supply consequences may arise due to this eligibility expansion. This paper seeks to determine what the effect of the ACA’s Medicaid eligibility expansion on labor supply is.

In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled to make the expansion optional for states. As a result, many states chose not to …