How work might worsen health
In light of debates over Medicaid work requirements, this review features studies that show how for healthy and unhealthy people alike, some forms of work might worsen health.
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Does work improve health?
Research on the relationship between employment and health sheds light on the proposed rationale behind work requirements as an eligibility condition for Medicaid.
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What would nursing homes do with more money?
As Medicaid reimbursement rates increase, nursing homes add more licensed staff per resident, improving quality of care, a new model suggests.
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How uninsured adults access health care
Uninsured adults don’t use emergency rooms more than insured adults. But they use other forms of health care much less, new research finds. Another study considers a strategy to change this.
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Tobacco cessation: Gaps in efforts to get Medicaid recipients to quit smoking
2016 study in Health Affairs that looks at the effectiveness of Medicaid programs in getting enrollees, who are twice as likely to smoke as the general population, to stop using tobacco.
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Young adults using emergency rooms to treat toothaches
2015 study published in The Journal of the American Dental Association that examines how often young adults visited U.S. emergency rooms for the treatment of toothaches between 2001 and 2010.
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