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  • Health insurance is good for health [FAQ]

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      July 5, 2011 at 12:00 pm
      Austin Frakt

    This is a FAQ entry. See the main FAQ index for others.

    • Health insurance saves lives, by Michael McWilliams
    • A second litereature review on health insurance and mortality
    • A post with links to others who argue that insurance saves lives
    • Health insurance is good for health
    • Studies show Medicaid improves health
    • Meanwhile, studies some interpret as showing Medicaid is bad for health are showing correlation, not causation
    • More Medicaid-health correlation, not causation
    • My NEJM paper, with Aaron Carroll, Harold Pollack, and Uwe Reinhardt on Medicaid and health
    • Medicaid expansion saved lives
    • Health insurance and health outcomes
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