The Affordable Care Act: How it has impacted men’s health
The ACA is a large step forward in allowing men to embrace their health concerns, and for health care practitioners to understand men and the challenge of help seeking, masculinity, and disparity in their quest for wellness (Men’s Health in Primary Care [Current Clinical Practice]. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2016).
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has provided a substantial benefit for millions of Americans who otherwise wouldn’t have been able to afford or have access to primary and specialty health care. Going to the doctor, however, still can be very costly for men who lack health insurance, which in many cases has resulted in avoidance of health care or overutilization of emergency department services. The ACA is a large step forward in allowing men to embrace their health concerns, and for health care practitioners to understand men and the challenge of help seeking, masculinity, and disparity in their quest for wellness (Men’s Health in Primary Care [Current Clinical Practice]. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2016).
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An estimated 41.3 million uninsured people became eligible for new health insurance coverage under the ACA, the majority of whom were adult men. Prior to the installation of the ACA, approximately 33% of American Indian and Alaska Native men, 25% of Hispanic men, 20% of African-American men, and 12% of Caucasian men did not have health insurance, while notably 25% of men between the ages of 19 and 25 years had no health insurance coverage, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Pre-ACA figures from the first half of 2013 showed that 31% of men aged 25 to 34 years went without insurance, as opposed to 22% of women in the same age group. In addition, 26% of men never saw a doctor in 2012, compared to only 13% of women.
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