Figure 1. Medicare Eligibility Age-Related Discontinuities in Coverage, Access, and Health by Race and Ethnicity.

For each panel, the share of the population that reported an outcome is plotted by age in years separately for White, Black, and Hispanic respondents for the study period (2008-2017). For illustrative purposes, the local linear line of best fit based on the optimal bandwidth selected for our regression discontinuity model is plotted for each racial and ethnic group. The White group is comprised of non-Hispanic, White individuals. The black vertical dotted line denotes the Medicare eligibility age threshold at 65 years. Scatter plots for covariates that should not change but exhibit large changes because of entry to Medicare are presented in eFigure 2 in the Supplement.