What Does Medicaid Expansion Mean for Cancer Screening Prevention? Results from a Randomized Trial on the Impacts of Acquiring Medicaid Coverage

摘要

Background.The Oregon Medicaid lottery provided a unique opportunity to assess the causal impacts of health insurance on cancer screening rates within the framework of a randomized controlled trial. Prior studies on the impacts of health insurance have almost always been limited to observational evidence, which cannot be used to make causal inferences.