Low-income people in three Southern states were recently asked whether they preferred Medicaid or private insurance. Guess which one they picked?
A study published in the journal Health Affairs found that poor residents of Arkansas, Kentucky and Texas, when asked to compare Medicaid with private coverage, said that Medicaid offered better “quality of health care” and made them better able to “afford the health care” they needed.
Medicaid, the federal-state program for poor and disabled Americans, is a frequent political target, often described as substandard because of its restricted list of doctors and the red tape — sometimes even worse than no insurance at all.
[For more of this story, written by Margot Sanger-Katz, go to http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10...p;abt=0002&abg=0]
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