Using hospital financial report data from CMS, I find no evidence that hospitals increased bed capacity, capital expenditures, or full-time staff in response to the ACA Medicaid Expansion.
I received my PhD in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin, and I taught microeconomics courses as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Texas A&M University. I study labor economics, public economics, and health economics. My research uses restricted Census data to examine the effects of the labor market and public health insurance on mortality.