Despite widely cited findings that Medicaid coverage was linked to an increase in use of the emergency department in Oregon, other studies show that the relationship between health insurance coverage and emergency care isn’t straightforward.
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From the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital — both in Boston (B.D.S.); the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington (K.S.); and the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA (K.S.).