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What follows is not a complete literature review on the effects of health insurance on health. But if you follow all links and leads to which these posts take you, you’ll have plenty of reading to do.
- 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
- The Massachusetts mortality study
