Appendix Table 4.

Descriptive statistics for alternative on-ramp comparison cohorts.

Age at time of survey:	65	68-69	68-79	68-89	68-99
Medicaid	0.42	0.44*	0.43	0.42	0.42
Female	0.62	0.64**	0.67***	0.69***	0.70***
White	0.54	0.52*	0.52***	0.55	0.55
Black	0.15	0.14	0.13***	0.12***	0.12***
Hispanic	0.17	0.18	0.17	0.16*	0.16**
Other race	0.13	0.16***	0.17***	0.17***	0.17***
Naturalized citizen	0.25	0.30***	0.34***	0.33***	0.33***
Employed	0.07	0.04***	0.02***	0.02***	0.02***
Married	0.30	0.31	0.31	0.28***	0.26***
Widowed	0.19	0.23***	0.32***	0.41***	0.44***
Separated or divorced	0.35	0.34*	0.26***	0.22***	0.21***
Never married	0.16	0.13***	0.11***	0.09***	0.09***
Less than high school	0.30	0.34***	0.38***	0.39***	0.39***
High school degree	0.31	0.31	0.31	0.32	0.32
Some college	0.24	0.22***	0.18***	0.17***	0.16***
College or more	0.15	0.13**	0.13***	0.12***	0.12***
Income ($10,000, 2017)	2.85	3.04*	3.42***	3.51***	3.53***
Income as % FPG	53.3	59.7***	59.5***	59.4***	59.3***
Single elig. (% FPG)	91.8	92.5***	92.7**	92.7**	92.7***
Couple elig. (% FPG)	94.6	95.1***	95.2***	95.2***	95.2***
Cognitive difficulty	0.11	0.12	0.13***	0.16***	0.18***
Ambulatory difficulty	0.26	0.27	0.30***	0.35***	0.37***
Independent living difficulty	0.16	0.17*	0.21***	0.28***	0.31***
Self-care difficulty	0.09	0.10	0.12***	0.15***	0.17***
Vision difficulty	0.08	0.07	0.09**	0.11***	0.12***
Hearing difficulty	0.08	0.09**	0.13***	0.17***	0.19***
Has any non-housing assets	0.08	0.07*	0.07**	0.08	0.08
Receive SSI	0.16	0.18**	0.18***	0.18***	0.18***
Share in Med. Adv.	0.29	0.29	0.29	0.29	0.29
N	6,697	10,032	53,866	84,316	91,275

Notes: The samples consist of respondents to the 2010-14 ACS who are age 65 or older, are income-eligible for Medicaid according to the criteria in their state of residence, and reside in a state that expanded Medicaid in 2014. Statistically significant differences between 65 year-olds and each of the potential comparison cohorts are indicated by

^***for the .01 level,

^**for the .05 level, and

^*for the .01 level.