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Access To Mental Health Care Increased But Not For Substance Use, While Disparities Remain

Author(s) -

Timothy B. Creedon,

Benjamin Lê Cook

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

health affairs

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.837

H-Index - 178

eISSN - 2694-233X

pISSN - 0278-2715

DOI - 10.1377/hlthaff.2016.0098

Subject(s) - medicaid , mental health , ethnic group , health insurance , health equity , substance use , health care , medicine , mental health care , patient protection and affordable care act , mental illness , african american , environmental health , gerontology , psychiatry , public health , political science , nursing , sociology , law , ethnology

We assessed whether early implementation of Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion and state health insurance exchanges increased access to mental health and substance use treatment among those in need and whether these changes differed by racial/ethnic group. We found that mental health treatment rates increased significantly but found no evidence of a reduction in the wide racial/ethnic disparities in mental health treatment that preceded ACA expansion from 2005 to 2013.

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