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Katherine Baicker

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Name: Katherine Baicker

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

More Medicaid did not improve outcomes

A study containing mixed results of the effects of increased Medicaid enrollment in Oregon offers some caution about expectations for dramatic improvements in the health of millions of individuals from just expanding coverage across the nation in 2014, ... [Published Healthcare Finance News - May 21 2013]

Entities: Medicaid, Katherine Baicker, Oregon, Well-being, controlled study

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 2 reports

Oregon

Ezra Klein: Medicaid in Oregon

Ezra Klein: Is the future of American health care in Oregon? : Two weeks ago, the group reported… that Medicaid coverage increased the amount of health care people used, offered almost total protection against catastrophic health expenses and reduced ... [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - May 21 2013]

Entities: Medicaid, Oregon, Ezra Klein

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Republican Party (US)

Medicaid opposition underscores states' healthcare disparities

WASHINGTON Republican opposition in many statehouses to expanding Medicaid next year under President Obama's healthcare law opposition that could leave millions of the nation's poorest residents without insurance coverage will likely widen the divide ... [Published Los Angeles Times - May 19 2013]

Entities: Medicaid, Health Care, Katherine Baicker, Republican Party (US), Cathy Schoen

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Humana Inc

The health paradox

America’s rampant health spending threatens its economic future. It also supports tens of millions of jobs.LOUISVILLE, Kentucky is known for bourbon and horse races. Its economy increasingly relies on a less glamorous industry: “lifelong wellness and ... [Published CommonWealth - May 16 2013]

Entities: Humana Inc, Kindred Healthcare Incorporated, Health Care, Obamacare

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

A First Job Is Like A First Date, And Other Advice For Graduation Day

We asked a bunch of economists what they would say if they were giving a commencement address this spring. Here are some excerpts from their responses.Justin Wolfers :Approach your career ambitions the same way you approached your romantic ambitions at ... [Published WNYC - May 13 2013]

Entities: AdvICE™, Kenneth French, Pietra Rivoli

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Three New Health Reform Plans Ignore the Long-Term Care Needs of Seniors and People with Disabilities

In the past few weeks, no fewer than three highly respected groups have proposed major health care reforms. They all promise greater use of patient-centered integrated care, but none include supports and services for frail elders or younger people with ... [Published Forbes.com - May 10 2013]

Entities: Medicare, Health Care Reform, Alice Rivlin, Medicaid

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Improved mental health seen with Medicaid coverage expansion

Medicaid coverage was linked to “substantially reduced” depression and the increased diagnosis of diabetes and the use of diabetes medication among low-income adults, according to a new study.At the same time, Medicaid coverage had no detectable effect ... [Published Drugtopics.com - May 10 2013]

Entities: Medicaid, Diabetes, Oregon, Katherine Baicker

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Mixed results of Oregon Health Plan study fuel national debate

Oregon is again starring in the debate over national health care reform after a study tracking 12,000 low-income Oregonians between 2008 and 2010 found that newly enrolled Oregon Health Plan members showed no significant physical health benefit.Those ... [Published Oregonian - May 05 2013]

Entities: Oregon, Katherine Baicker, Health Care

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 15 reports

Two Years On and No Healthier? Oregon Study Sparks Further Medicaid Debate

Two years after receiving Medicaid coverage, the mental health and financial well-being of the beneficiaries fared substantially better than a random uninsured group of the same low income. But clear physical health benefits among scheme recipients have ... [Published eyeforpharma.com - May 02 2013]

Entities: Medicaid, Oregon, Katherine Baicker, Harvard School of Public Health, Health Insurance

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 2 reports

Oregon Medicaid Study Cheers Conservatives, But What Did It Actually Find?

Expanded Medicaid coverage in Oregon eased the financial strain of medical expenses for low-income people, but didn't produce immediate health improvements by certain measures, according to newly released research.Wikimedia Commons/US Air ForceAn Air ... [Published International Business Times Canada - May 02 2013]

Entities: Medicaid, Oregon, Katherine Baicker, control group, Cholesterol

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Second Thoughts On Medicaid From Oregon's Unique Experiment

Audio for this story from All Things Considered will be available at approximately 7:00 p.m. ET. Two years ago, a landmark study found that having Medicaid health insurance makes a positive difference in people's lives.Backers of the program have pointed ... [Published NPR - May 01 2013]

Entities: Medicaid, Katherine Baicker, Scott Gottlieb, Oregon, National Public Radio

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Study: Medicaid reduces financial hardship, doesn’t quickly improve physical health

As heated fights over the health law’s Medicaid expansion engulf state legislatures, a sweeping new study indicates that the program is unlikely to quickly improve enrollees’ physical health. The research, published Tuesday in the New England ... [Published Ezra Klein - May 01 2013]

Entities: Medicaid, Katherine Baicker, Sara Collins, Commonwealth Fund

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"there are important consequences to expanding medicaid" said Katherine Baicker, a health economist at the Harvard School of Public Health...

Medicaid opposition underscores states' healthcare disparities [Published Los Angeles Times - May 19 2013]

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Ezra Klein: Oregon’s radical health overhaul bl... [Published Politics in Minnesota - May 22 2013]
More Medicaid did not improve outcomes [Published Healthcare Finance News - May 21 2013]
Ezra Klein: Medicaid in Oregon [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - May 21 2013]
Ezra Klein: Medicaid in Oregon [Published Brad DeLong - May 21 2013]
Is the future of American health care in Oregon? [Published Ezra Klein - May 20 2013]
Medicaid opposition underscores states' healthc... [Published Los Angeles Times - May 19 2013]
Medicaid arguments don’t quite add up [Published Billings Outpost - May 18 2013]
Oregon's Radical Health Overhaul Blazes New Trail [Published Bloomberg - May 17 2013]
The health paradox [Published CommonWealth - May 16 2013]
What the Oregon Study Says (or Doesn't) About M... [Published California Healthline - May 15 2013]
A First Job Is Like A First Date, And Other Adv... [Published WNYC - May 13 2013]
Three New Health Reform Plans Ignore the Long-T... [Published Forbes.com - May 10 2013]
Improved mental health seen with Medicaid cover... [Published Drugtopics.com - May 10 2013]
Comment: Bad news for 'Obamacare' [Published Special Broadcasting Service - May 10 2013]
Medicaid access: no boon to health? Oregon's a ... [Published Bend Bulletin - May 08 2013]
More study needed [Published Democracy in America - May 06 2013]
Mixed results of Oregon Health Plan study fuel ... [Published Oregonian - May 05 2013]
The Larger Lesson From Oregon's Medicaid Lottery [Published Oregonian - May 04 2013]
Medicaid, ER Studies Make Strong Case for Obama... [Published Crooks and Liars - May 04 2013]
No, that new Oregon study doesn't show Obamacar... [Published Philadelphia Inquirer - May 03 2013]
Medicaid coverage improved healthcare utilizati... [Published Fierce Healthcare - May 03 2013]
Oregon study offers insights into reach of heal... [Published News-Medical.Net - May 03 2013]
Clipboard: Study finds gains for mental health,... [Published Boston Globe - May 02 2013]
Here’s what the Oregon Medicaid study really said [Published Ezra Klein - May 02 2013]
Two Years On and No Healthier? Oregon Study Spa... [Published eyeforpharma.com - May 02 2013]
What Oregon’s Medicaid Study Means for Obamacare [Published The Fiscal Times - May 02 2013]
How to Use the Oregon Medicaid Study to Your Id... [Published The Atlantic Wire - May 02 2013]
Oregon Medicaid Study Cheers Conservatives, But... [Published International Business Times Canada - May 02 2013]
How Medicaid Affects Adult Health [Published Economist's View - May 02 2013]
Study: Medicaid bolsters mental health for unin... [Published Indiana Gazette - May 02 2013]

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Ezra Klein: Medicaid in Oregon [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - May 21 2013] Ezra Klein: Is the future of American health care in Oregon? : Two weeks ago, the group reported… that Medicaid coverage increased the amount of health care people used, offered almost total protection against catastrophic health expenses and reduced ...
Ezra Klein: Medicaid in Oregon [Published Brad DeLong - May 21 2013] Ezra Klein:Is the future of American health care in Oregon?: Two weeks ago, the group reported… that Medicaid coverage increased the amount of health care people used, offered almost total protection against catastrophic health expenses and reduced depression ...
Is the future of American health care in Oregon? [Published Ezra Klein - May 20 2013] “The governor has a notion that you can move away from medical billing and towards a more flexible approach to health-care spending that makes more sense for the community,” John McConnell, a health economist at Oregon Health and Science University, ...
More study needed [Published Democracy in America - May 06 2013] NEXT year will bring a huge expansion of Medicaid, the federal-state health programme for the poor. It won’t be quite as big an expansion as Barack Obama hoped, thanks to last year’s Supreme Court ruling that made the expansion optional for each state. But ...
Medicaid, ER Studies Make Strong Case for Obama... [Published Crooks and Liars - May 04 2013] This week, the New England Journal of Medicine published a major study of Medicaid in Oregon which has rapidly emerged of a Rorschach test of sorts. That is, partisans on either side of the political divide tend to see what they want to see in its ...