Cancer health disparities remain stubbornly entrenched in the US health care system. The
Affordable Care Act was legislation to target these disparities in health outcomes. Expanded …

Importance Insurance status has been linked to important differences in cancer treatment
and outcomes in the US. With more than 15 million individuals gaining health insurance …

Objectives To investigate the impact of the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Medicaid expansion
on African American-white disparities in health coverage, access to healthcare, receipt of …

There is a well-established association between multiple sociodemographic risk factors and
disparities in cancer care. These risk factors include minority race and ethnicity, low …

Early effects of 2014 US Medicaid expansions on mortality: Design-based inference for
impacts on small subgroups despite small Page 1 The Annals of Applied Statistics 2024, Vol …

Background We evaluated whether time to surgery by race can be a health equity metric of
surgical access. Methods An observational analysis was performed using the National …

Objectives: Asthma disproportionately affects Black people and people with low incomes,
but Medicaid expansion (hereinafter, expansion) data on these populations are limited. We …

Importance Patients who are uninsured and belong to racial and ethnic minority groups or
have low socioeconomic status have suboptimal access to health care, likely affecting …

Objective Our objective was to evaluate the factors associated with regional variation of
rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease burden in the US. Methods In a retrospective cohort …

Background Delays in colonoscopy work-up for red flag signs or symptoms of colorectal
cancer (CRC) during the COVID-19 pandemic are not well characterized. Aims To examine …