Cosmosophy: Medicaid réduit légèrement la mortalité/ Medicaid extension slightly reduces mortality

Figure 1. Unadjusted Mortality and Rates of Medicaid Coverage among

Nonelderly Adults before and after State Medicaid Expansions (1997–2007).

The vertical line represents the year during which the Medicaid expansions

were implemented, meaning that year 1 was the first full year after the expansions

(2002 for Arizona and New York and 2003 for Maine). In unadjusted

models, the expansions were associated with a significant decrease in all-cause

mortality in expansion states, as compared with control states (−25.4 deaths

per 100,000 population; 95% confidence interval [CI], −46.0 to −4.8; P = 0.02)

(Panel A) and a significant increase in Medicaid coverage (by 2.2 percentage

points; 95% CI, 0.7 to 3.7; P = 0.01) (Panel B). Data for adults between the ages

of 20 and 64 years are included in Panel A and data for those between the

ages of 19 and 64 years in Panel B, owing to differences in the two data sets.

The truth is that Medicaid is probably the only program which deserves tax money.

Cosmosophy