5 Things the Oregon Medicaid Study Tells Us About American Health Care
Submitted By jryan@mcol.com, Created 05/02/2013 - 17:32
- Preventive care isn’t all it’s cracked up to be: The Oregon study found that people on Medicaid got more preventive care than those in the uninsured control group
- We need more quality control in medicine: The fact that payments to doctors and hospitals don’t depend on health outcomes in most cases is an enormous problem
- Patients need to be more involved in managing their own health: Chronic conditions have a lot to do with weight, diet and adherence to medication regimens, which patients can control
- Medicaid is not enough: Getting on the Medicaid rolls doesn’t automatically eliminate factors like lack of education, lack of access to healthy food and household financial strain
- Insurance is about health, but it’s also about money: The latest results from Oregon showed that being on Medicaid “nearly eliminated catastrophic out-of-pocket medical expenditures"
Source: Time
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