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Category: Oregon Health Insurance Experiment
The Intolerable Side Effect of Access to Care
Debates around health reform are often viewed through a political lens. Assessing the outcome of the ACA is no different. If the central goal of health reform is to increase access to care, there can be little debate as to Continue Reading …
ER visits unchanged after ACA
The Affordable Care Act was supposed to expand coverage to the uninsured and many politicians claimed this would result in lower use of “expensive emergency rooms” for treatment of patients’ acute complaints. This presumption runs counter to several facts. First, Continue Reading …
Back of the Envelope
Recently there have been quite few notable* “back-of-the-envelope” calculations. The included one which estimated how much expanding Medicaid would increase emergency care spending: A back-of-the-envelope calculation, using $435 as the average cost of an emergency department visit, suggests that Medicaid increases annual Continue Reading …
Medicaid Increases ER Visits
This Policy Prescriptions® review is written by Dr. Seth Trueger. He blogs at MDAware.org and can also be found via Twitter @MDAware or tweeting for Emergency Physicians Monthly @epmonthly. In 2008, Oregon had some limited funding to expand their Medicaid program. Given the limited funding, they held Continue Reading …
Medicaid or Placebo: Don’t Worry, Be Happy
I really like the way Avik Roy went about explaining the Oregon Study, and for that matter, statistics to his readers. While he is right to try to break down the Oregon Medicaid study like a similar RCT for a Continue Reading …
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