Medicaid Increases Emergency-Department Use: Evidence from Oregon's Health Insurance Experiment

In 2008, Oregon initiated a limited expansion of a Medicaid program for uninsured, low-income adults, drawing names from a waiting list by lottery. This lottery created a rare opportunity to study the effects of Medicaid coverage by using a randomized controlled design. By using the randomization pr...

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Main Authors: Finkelstein, Amy, Taubman, Sarah L., Allen, Heidi L., Wright, Bill J., Baicker, Katherine
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/84052
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9941-6684

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