Harvard Open Access Depository – Selected publications available for free download.
NBER Working Papers:
Gruber, J., Sommers, B.D. (2020). Fiscal Federalism and the Budget Impacts of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansion
Gruber, J., Sommers, B.D. (2019). The Affordable Care Act’s Effects on Patients, Providers and the Economy: What We’ve Learned So Far
Ghosh, A., Simon, K., Sommers, B.D. (2017). The Effect of State Medicaid Expansions on Prescription Drug Use: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act
Frean, M.J., Gruber, J., Sommers, B.D. (2016). Premium Subsidies, the Mandate, and Medicaid Expansion: Coverage Effects of the Affordable Care Act
Government Reports (Selected)
Bosworth, A., Sheingold, S., Finegold, K., Sayed, B.A.., De Lew, N., Sommers, B.D. (2023). Changes in the List Prices of Prescription Drugs, 2017-2023. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Welch, W.P., Xu, L., De Lew, N., Sommers, B.D. (2023). Ownership of Hospitals: An Analysis of Newly-Released Federal Data & A Method for Assessing Common Owners. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Sayed, B.A., Finegold, K., Olsen, T.A., Ashok, J., Schutz, S., Sheingold, S., De Lew, N., Sommers, B.D. (2023). Medicare Part D Enrollee Out-Of-Pocket Spending: Recent Trends and Projected Impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Xu, L., Welch, W.P., Ruhter, J., Nguyen, N.X., Sheingold, S., De Lew, N., Sommers, B.D. (2023). Medicare Advantage Overview: A Primer on Enrollment and Spending. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Lee, A., Ruhter, J., Peters, C., De Lew, N., Sommers, B.D. (2023). Medicaid Enrollees Who are Employed: Implications for Unwinding the Medicaid Continuous Enrollment Provision. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Conmy, A.B., Peters, C., De Lew, N., Sommers, B.D. (2023). Children’s Health Coverage Trends: Gains in 2020-2022 Reverse Previous Coverage Losses. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Sayed, B.A., Finegold, K., Olsen, T.A., De Lew, N., Sheingold, S., Sommers, B.D. (2023). Insulin Affordability and the Inflation Reduction Act: Medicare Beneficiary Savings by State and Demographics. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Sayed, B.A., Finegold, K., Ashok, K., Schutz, S., De Lew, N., Sheingold, S., Sommers, B.D. (2023). Medicare Part D Enrollee Savings from Elimination of Vaccine Cost-Sharing. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Lee, A., Ruhter, J., Peters, C., De Lew, N., Sommers, B.D. (2022). National Uninsured Rate Reaches All-Time Low in Early 2022. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Murphy, S.J., Samson, L.W., Sommers, B.D. (2022). COVID-19 Antivirals Utilization: Geographic and Demographic Patterns of Treatment in 2022. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Samson, L.W., Sayed, B.A., Orav, E.J., Sheingold, S. Sommers, B.D. (2022). Reductions in Deaths and Hospitalizations Associated with COVID-19 Vaccinations Among Medicare Beneficiaries: Full Year 2021 Estimates. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Chen, L., Lee, A., Branham, D.K., Finegold, K., Peters, C., Sorbero, M.E., Elliott, M.N., Euller, R., Sommers. B.D. (2022). HealthCare.gov Enrollment by Race and Ethnicity, 2015-2022. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Welch, W.P., Ruhter, J., Bosworth, A., De Lew, N., Sommers, B.D. (2022). Changes of Ownership of Hospital and Skilled Nursing Facilities: An Analysis of Newly-Released CMS Data. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Branham, D.K, Finegold, K., Peters, C., Sommers, B.D. (2022). HealthCare.gov Marketplace Enrollment During the 2021 Special Enrollment Period by Race and Ethnicity. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Branham, D.K, Eibner, C., Girosi, F., Lui, J., Finegold, K., Peters, C., Sommers, B.D. (2022). Projected Coverage and Subsidy Impacts If the American Rescue Plan’s Marketplace Provisions Sunset in 2023. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Sugar, S., Ruhter, J., Gordon, S., Whitman, A., Peters, C., De Lew, N., Sommers, B.D. (2022). Health Coverage for Women Under the Affordable Care Act. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Tarazi, W., Welch, P., Nguyen, N., Bosworth, A., Sheingold, S., De Lew, N., Sommers, B.D. (2022). Medicare Beneficiary Enrollment Trends and Demographic Characteristics. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Karimi, M., Lee, E.C., Couture, S.J., Gonzales, A., Grigorescu, V., Smith, S.R., De Lew, N., Sommers, B.D. (2022). National Survey Trends in Telehealth Use in 2021: Disparities in Utilization and Audio vs. Video Services. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Chu, R.C, Lee, A., Peters, C., Sommers, B.D. (2022). Health Coverage Changes From 2020-2021. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Tarazi, W., Finegold, K., Sheingold, S., De Lew, N., Sommers, B.D. (2022). Prescription Drug Affordability among Medicare Beneficiaries. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Branham, D.K, Peters, C., De Lew, N., Sommers, B.D. (2022). Health Insurance Deductibles Among HealthCare.gov Enrollees, 2017-2021. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Chu, R.C, Rudich, J., Lee, A., Peters, C., De Lew, N., Sommers, B.D. (2021). Facilitating Consumer Choice: Standardized Plans in Health Insurance Marketplaces. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Gordon, S., Sugar, S., Chen, L., Peters, C., De Lew, N., Sommers, B.D. (2021). Medicaid After Pregnancy: State-Level Implications of Extending Postpartum Coverage. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Samson, L.W., Tarazi, W., Orav, E.J.., Sheingold, S., De Lew, N., Sommers, B.D. (2021). Associations Between County-level Vaccination Rates and COVID-19 Outcomes Among Medicare Beneficiaries. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Rudich, J., Sugar, S, Chien, N., Peters, C., Sommers, B.D. (2021). Assessing Uninsured Rates in Early Care and Education Workers. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Beleche, T., Kolbe, A., Bush, L., Sommers, B.D. (2021). Parents’ Intentions to Vaccinate Children Ages 12-17 for COVID-19: Demographic Factors, Geographic Patterns, and Reasons for Hesitancy. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Beleche, T., Kolbe, A., Bush, L., Sommers, B.D. (2021). Unvaccinated for COVID-19 but Willing: Demographic Factors, Geographic Patterns, and Changes Over Time. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Chu, R.C, Peters, C., De Lew, N., Sommers, B.D. (2021). State Medicaid Telehealth Policies Before and During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Chu, R.C, Branham, D.K., Finegold, J., Conmy, A.B., Peters, C., De Lew, N., Sommers, B.D. (2021). The American Rescue Plan and the Unemployed: Making Health Coverage More Affordable After Job Loss. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Turini, G., Branham, D.K., Chen, L., Conmy, A.B., Chappel, A.R., De Lew, N., Sommers, B.D. (2021). Access to Affordable Care in Rural America: Current Trends and Key Challenges. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Bosworth, A., Turini, G., Pyda, S., Strickland, K., Chappel, A., De Lew, N., Sommers, B.D. (2021). Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care for LGBTQ+ Individuals: Recent Trends and Key Challenges. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Branham, D.K, Conmy, A.B., DeLeire, T., Musen, J., Xiao, X., Chu, R.C., Peters, C., Sommers, B.D. (2021). Access to Marketplace Plans with Low Premiums: The Uninsured and the American Rescue Plan. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Sugar, S, Peters, C., De Lew, N., Sommers, B.D. (2021). Medicaid Churning and Continuity of Care: Evidence and Policy Considerations Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Simmons, A., Chappel, A., Kolbe, A., Bush, L., Sommers, B.D. (2021). Health Disparities by Race and Ethnicity during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Current Evidence and Policy Approaches. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Skopec, L., Sommers, B.D. (2013). Seventy-one million additional Americans are receiving preventive services coverage without cost-sharing under the Affordable Care Act. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Sommers, B.D. (2012). Number of Young Adults Gaining Insurance Due to the Affordable Care Act Now Tops 3 Million. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Todd, S.R., Sommers, B.D. (2012). Overview of the Uninsured in the United States: A Summary of the 2012 Current Population Survey. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Musco, T.D., Sommers, B.D. (2012). Under the Affordable Care Act, 105 Million Americans No Longer Face Lifetime Limits on Health Benefits. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Sommers, B.D., Wilson L. (2012). Fifty-Four Million Additional Americans Are Receiving Preventive Services Coverage Without Cost-Sharing Under The Affordable Care Act. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Sommers, B.D., Kronick R., Finegold K, Po R., Schwartz K, Glied S. (2012). Understanding Participation Rates in Medicaid: Implications for the Affordable Care Act. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Schwartz, K, Sommers, B.D. (2012). Young Adults are Particularly Likely to Gain Stable Health Insurance Coverage as a Result of the Affordable Care Act. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Sommers, B.D., Schwartz K. (2011). 2.5 Million Young Adults Gain Health Insurance Due to the Affordable Care Act. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
Sommers, B.D. (2011). 1.2 Million Children Gain Insurance Since Reauthorization of Children’s Health Insurance Program. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE).
