Module 4, Part 1: Medicaid Expansion and ACA
The goal of Part 1 of this module is to understand Medicaid expansion and its implementation as part of the ACA, as well as our data sources for examining the effects of Medicaid expansion on insurance.
Objectives
- Explain what we mean by “Medicaid expansion”
- Understand the ACS data and how to access the data in R
Activities
- Import ACS data via API in R
- Summarize insurance status over time
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