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The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence From The First Year

July 1, 2011

In July 2011, the National Bureau Of Economic Research (NBER) released Working Paper 17190 on the effects of expanding access to public health insurance on the health care use, financial strain, and health of low-income adults using a randomized controlled design. The study examined a group of uninsured low-income adults in Oregon selected by lottery to be given the chance to apply for Medicaid in 2008. In the year after random assignment, the treatment group selected by the lottery was about 25 percentage points more likely to have . . .

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