https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2011/07/08/how-much-does-medicaid-improve-the-poors-well-being-not-much/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 19:11:28 -0400<![CDATA[But it&#8217;s hard to believe that the effect is really huge, precisely because the data tends to be so ambiguous. As Michael Cannon points out, this is the most vulnerable population&#8211;adults, many of them near-elderly, below the poverty line. This is where you&#8217;d expect to see the biggest effect of putting people on government insurance, because this group has very little recourse to alternative health care resources such as employer insurance, or paying out of pocket. (Though some of them seem to have found some anyway; as I make their somewhat confusing tables, 13% of the control group ended up on private insurance.)]]>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:45:44 -0400<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2011/07/08/how-much-does-medicaid-improve-the-poors-well-being-not-much-n84596