I consider the popular argument of Medicaid crowding out demand for private long-term care insurance. I show that this … argument rests on a wrong counterfactual comparison. Furthermore, I question the welfare-decreasing impact of Medicaid as it …

Medicaid expansions of the 1980s and 1990s. In this paper, we provide the first national study of the effects of Medicaid on … health to later life outcomes. We exploit exogenous variation from the Medicaid income eligibility expansions for pregnant … maternal health indicators. We find that the 13 percentage point increase in Medicaid eligibility during the study period was …

In the early 2000s, Arizona, Maine, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Vermont expanded Medicaid to cover more low … Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) enrollment after the Medicaid expansions. These results are robust to an alternative … findings provide early insights on the potential effects of new Medicaid expansions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), since 82 …