Figure 1.

Unadjusted trends in coverage and health measures for 51- to 64-year-old low-education respondents before and after Medicaid expansion. Expansion states are those that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act as of 2016 and include Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Washington, and West Virginia. Eleven states (Arizona, California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Vermont, and Wisconsin) that expanded Medicaid prior to 2014 were excluded from the analysis. Nonexpansion states are those that did not expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act as of 2016 and include Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming.