The Affordable Care Act (ACA) had to go through a detailed analysis to determine its worth. I would guess that one of the questions was the economic advantage of this Act. In California, for example, the expansion of Medicaid that allowed parents to cover their young adult children decreased the need for young adults to seek employment that ensured insurance coverage (Campbell, et al., 2020). This helped to decrease the unemployment rate and increase growth for small businesses that hired part-time employees or were unable to offer benefits