The following article by Aaron E. Carroll and Austin Frakt was posted on the New York Times site July 12, 2017:
As we recently wrote, it’s better for patients to have Medicaid than to be uninsured, contrary to critics of the program. But is having Medicaid, as those critics also say, much worse than having private insurance?
This idea has become a talking point for conservatives who back big changes to Medicaid, as the Senate health bill proposes. The poor would benefit simply by being ushered off Medicaid and onto private insurance, they write. Continue reading “Don’t Assume That Private Insurance Is Better Than Medicaid”