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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2016 Mar 21;122(11):1766–1773. doi: 10.1002/cncr.29982

Table 2.

Changes in Overall and Medicaid Health Insurance Coverage among Young Adult Cancer Patients Before and After the Early Implementation of the ACA by Age-Group, SEER Program 2007–2012

Type of Health
Insurance
Coverage		 Cancer Patients aged 18–25 Cancer Patients aged 26–29 Difference in
Difference
Before
%		 After
%		 Difference Before
%		 After
%		 Difference Percent
Points1 		p-value2
Any health insurance 83.5 85.4 1.9** 83.4 82.9 −0.5 3.1 <0.01
Medicaid Health Insurance 18.2 19.0 0.8 15.9 18.1 2.2** −1.3 0.17

Notes:

SEER=Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program

ACA=Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Before=January 2007 – September 2010

After=October 2010 – December 2012

**

Statistically significant with p-value of <0.01 from Chi-Squared tests

1

Represents the net change in each health insurance type for cancer patients aged 18–25 after the early implementation of the ACA; estimates are from generalized mixed effect models with random intercepts for each cancer registry state using the logit link function adjusting for time period, age group, time period*age group, sex, race/ethnicity, marital status, cancer site, and stage at diagnosis.

2

p-value of the interaction term for time period*age