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66. Does Health Insurance Make You Healthier?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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How Did the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment Hold Up?

We have a serious problem with these chronic physical health conditions in the US, but Medicaid alone was not sufficient to address it. The people who got coverage in Oregon look a lot on many dimensions, like the populations who would get coverage under Medicaid expansion under the ACA. So there's some limits to external generalizability, although some strengths as well.

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