Erschienen in:
20.09.2018 | Concise Research Reports
Early Medicaid Expansions and Drug Overdose Mortality in the USA: a Quasi-experimental Analysis
verfasst von:
Atheendar S. Venkataramani, MD, PhD, Paula Chatterjee, MD, MPH
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Excerpt
The widespread availability of prescription and illicit opioids is thought to be a key driver of the rise in drug overdose mortality in the USA.
1 The role of health insurance in increasing access to prescription opioids has thus emerged as a key policy issue. Policymakers and commentators have raised concerns that Medicaid expansions—such as those implemented as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—may have caused the rise in drug overdose mortality, citing more deaths from drug overdose in states that expanded Medicaid versus those that did not.
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