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Jan 27 2015

A study in Health Affairs finds that mandating dependent coverage for children up to age 26 increased the insured status of younger trauma patients but did not lessen their mortality rate.

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/34/1/125.abstract
Jan 19 2015

One promise of the reform law was supposed to be less ER use as more uninsured people got coverage, but the opposite has happened, with ER use actually rising.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20150117/NEWS/301169969/er-visits-still-rising-despite-aca
Dec 16 2014

According to eHealth Insurance, consumers who are not eligible for subsidies but are shopping on the exchanges during this open enrollment period have selected plans that on average have a 16% higher premium than the average for plans selected last year, although the increase is only 2% higher than plans selected in the same period last year.  Consumers are also choosing plans with lower deductibles.

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=201232&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1996441
Dec 16 2014

In the latest evidence that having health insurance does not automatically mean people get more preventive services, much less have better health outcomes, a study in NEJM finds that young adults up to age 26 had significant but relatively minor increases in use of only 2 out of 5 common preventive services, and the study did not have as a variable whether they actually were enrolled in insurance.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1406586?af=R&rss=currentIssue
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