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"The Oregon health insurance experiment didn’t begin as an experiment. It began as a budget cut. From 2002 to 2008, Oregon threw 93,000 people out of its Medicaid program. In 2008, the state found it had enough money to add 10,000 of them back. The only fair thing to do, state officials figured, was draw straws. Early on, a group of eminent health economists realized the lottery offered a chance to conduct a study no one in their discipline had ever managed but everyone had always wanted: a randomized, controlled experiment comparing those who received Medicaid with those who remained uninsured. “It’s hard to overstate how excited we were,” said Amy Finkelstein of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “We thought it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to bring the gold standard of experimental design to this question.”
Posted on: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 18:46:18 +0000

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