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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKrugman: Medicaid Nonsense
Medicaid Nonsense
...you should be reading The Incidental Economist on the Oregon Medicaid study thats creating a lot of fuss today. Basically, budget woes forced Oregon to allocate Medicaid access by lottery, giving a rare randomized experiment. Those who got Medicaid suffered much less financial distress and less depression; they received more preventive care; but on some (not all dimensions) their health wasnt significantly better than those who lost out in the lottery.
Somehow, conservatives think this is a big win for their opposition to universal health insurance. Why? What it suggests is that the health benefits of ANY kind of health insurance are somewhat hard to identify over a two year period; so, are you about to give up your own insurance, or is your best bet that having that insurance is still a very good idea? And the financial benefits are a big part of that! Since you are going to treat your illnesses, better not to bankrupt yourself in the process, right?
Oh, and until now the claim of right-wingers has been that Medicaid actually makes you sicker; serious researchers have always said that this was a case of selection bias, because sicker people got Medicaid and now we have confirmation: those who got Medicaid were at least somewhat healthier than those who didnt.
Above all, you should bear in mind that if health insurance is a good idea and you are nuts if you let this study persuade you otherwise Medicaid is cheaper than private insurance. So where is the downside?
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/medicaid-nonsense/
...you should be reading The Incidental Economist on the Oregon Medicaid study thats creating a lot of fuss today. Basically, budget woes forced Oregon to allocate Medicaid access by lottery, giving a rare randomized experiment. Those who got Medicaid suffered much less financial distress and less depression; they received more preventive care; but on some (not all dimensions) their health wasnt significantly better than those who lost out in the lottery.
Somehow, conservatives think this is a big win for their opposition to universal health insurance. Why? What it suggests is that the health benefits of ANY kind of health insurance are somewhat hard to identify over a two year period; so, are you about to give up your own insurance, or is your best bet that having that insurance is still a very good idea? And the financial benefits are a big part of that! Since you are going to treat your illnesses, better not to bankrupt yourself in the process, right?
Oh, and until now the claim of right-wingers has been that Medicaid actually makes you sicker; serious researchers have always said that this was a case of selection bias, because sicker people got Medicaid and now we have confirmation: those who got Medicaid were at least somewhat healthier than those who didnt.
Above all, you should bear in mind that if health insurance is a good idea and you are nuts if you let this study persuade you otherwise Medicaid is cheaper than private insurance. So where is the downside?
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/medicaid-nonsense/
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Krugman: Medicaid Nonsense (Original Post)
ProSense
May 2013
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ProSense
(116,464 posts)1. Kick! n/t
n2doc
(47,953 posts)2. Logic doesn't matter. Facts don't matter.
Only what your 'gut' (in reality, the person on Fox or Rush on the radio) tells you is important. Logic and facts have a liberal bias, you know.
Cha
(297,210 posts)3. We have a good Medicaid Insurance Program in Hawai'i.. it's called
Ohana. It's great peace of mind that if something happens.. finances won't have to be among the problems.
thanks ProSense