Surviving the Perfect Storm: Impacts of Benefit Reductions and Increased Cost Sharing in a Medicaid Program
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Publication date
8 August 2008
Publisher
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Abstract
Summarizes two studies of how changes to the Oregon Health Plan resulted in disenrollment among the poorest, no net savings for the state Medicaid plan, and a rise in emergency room visits. Discusses policy implications for the low-income population