policyengine-healthcare

What problem does it solve?

This Skill enables end-to-end healthcare policy modeling for Medicaid, ACA marketplace, CHIP, and Medicare within PolicyEngine-US, empowering analysts to simulate complex program interactions, eligibility, subsidies, and spending under state-specific rules and reform scenarios.

Core Features & Use Cases

• End-to-end modeling of Medicaid, ACA marketplace, CHIP, and Medicare within PolicyEngine-US.
• Healthcare variables mapping and state-level overrides to support scenario testing across jurisdictions.
• Reform analysis capabilities including Medicaid expansion, IRA subsidy extensions, and parameter-timeline modifications.
• Population-level analyses with microsimulations, take-up dynamics, and distributional results by income, state, and program interaction.

Quick Start

Run a baseline healthcare microsimulation for 2026 using the default state dataset and PolicyEngine healthcare parameters.