Oregon expanded its Medicaid coverage in 2008. Roughly 90,000 applied, but the state had funds for who would receive this free health care insurance from Medicaid.
How could you use the Oregon experience to estimate the impact of increased access to health care on health outcomes?
Oregon experience is a ________ and one might analyze the data as follows: gather and analyze the data on the health outcomes to determine if _______.
a) Natural experiment; access to Medicaid affects health outcomes
b) Controlled experiment; access to Medicaid doesn't affect health outcomes
c) Observational study; Medicaid application process affects health outcomes
d) Correlation study; Medicaid coverage has no impact on health outcomes
