{"id":22489,"date":"2026-06-12T03:26:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22489"},"modified":"2026-06-12T03:26:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:26:24","slug":"health-care-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22489","title":{"rendered":"Health Care 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, the scientific evidence finds that Medicaid does improve&nbsp;health. There was a literature that found this, then the Oregon study found that it didn&#8217;t! But then with the ACA, some people were randomly sent a reminder to sign up for Medicaid, and those that got the&nbsp;letter, signed up more, and they had better health outcomes. The Oregon study followed people for too short of time and the sample was too small.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lecture 14: Health Care II\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jp8JNHPP7MA?list=PLUl4u3cNGP62KS2YhlASvGBxxL8HgB11p\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overall, the scientific evidence finds that Medicaid does improve health. There was a literature that found this, then the Oregon study found that it didn&#8217;t! But then with the ACA, some people were randomly sent a reminder to sign up for Medicaid, and those that got the letter, signed up more, and they had better health outcomes. The Oregon study followed people for too short of time and the sample was too small. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jp8JNHPP7MA&#038;list=PLUl4u3cNGP62KS2YhlASvGBxxL8HgB11p&#038;index=14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[76,217,165,674,1503,81,334,80,73,341,811,150],"class_list":["post-22489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-aca","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-entitlements","tag-evidence","tag-health","tag-health-insurance","tag-health-system","tag-healthcare","tag-medicaid","tag-science","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22490,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22489\/revisions\/22490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}