The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year

In 2008, a group of uninsured low-income adults in Oregon was selected by lottery to be given the chance to apply for Medicaid. This lottery provides an opportunity to gauge the effects of expanding access to public health insurance on the health care use, financial strain, and health of low-income...

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Main Authors: Taubman, Sarah, Wright, Bill, Bernstein, Mira, Newhouse, Joseph P., Allen, Heidi L., Baicker, Katherine, Gruber, Jonathan, Finkelstein, Amy
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71005
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9877-3065
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9941-6684