The Sacramento Bee published an article recently about a study in the New England Journal of Medicine that indicates that people who live in “...states that expand coverage will likely live longer, be healthier and have better access to medical care.”
While this seems self-evident to me, it is good to see a real-world comparison. The study compared New York to Pennsylvania, Arizona to New Mexico, and Maine to New Hampshire. In each of those pairs, the first state opened its Medicaid programs to poor adults without children. Residents of the states that opened the Medicaid programs were also less likely to delay care because of cost and more likely to report that they were in good health.
I’m sorry to say that Pennsylvania was the in the control group. I often think that I live in the equivalent of a Third World country.
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