What The Oregon Health Study Can Tell Us About Expanding Medicaid
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Allen, Heidi L.
Baicker, Katherine
Finkelstein, Amy
Taubman, Sarah
Wright, Bill J.
Oregon Health Study Group
Date Issued
August 2010
Journal
Health Affairs
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Project Hope
Citation
Allen, H., K. Baicker, A. Finkelstein, S. Taubman, and B. J. Wright. “What The Oregon Health Study Can Tell Us About Expanding Medicaid.” Health Affairs 29, no. 8 (August 2, 2010): 1498-1506.
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Abstract
The recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act includes a major expansion of Medicaid to low-income adults in 2014. This paper describes the Oregon Health Study, a randomized controlled trial that will be able to shed some light on the likely effects of such expansions. In 2008, Oregon randomly drew names from a waiting list for its previously closed public insurance program. Our analysis of enrollment into this program found that people who signed up for the waiting list and enrolled in the Oregon Medicaid program were likely to have worse health than those who did not. However, actual enrollment was fairly low, partly because many applicants did not meet eligibility standards.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
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https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2010.0191
