President Obama’s “free money” will force more and more Virginians into Medicaid, a costly program that we all know desperately needs reform. Cause get this: In some cases it hurts the very people it’s meant to help. In fact, a University of Virginia study showed in some cases it’s actually better to be uninsured than to be on Medicaid.
The ad offers no citation for this claim, but attributes the text “increased risk of adjusted mortality” to the University in general.
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In a guest post on the conservative Virginia blog Bearing Drift, Snyder identifies the study in question: a 2010 report by UVA doctors and others. (Snyder also elevates the suspect $902 million price tag claim to “$902 billion,” in an apparent "typo" in that post.)
That study merely found that — by a difference within the margin of error — Medicaid patients had a fractionally higher in-hospital mortality rate after major surgery than uninsured Americans did between 2003 and 2007. Even with Snyder’s heavy caveats, this does not match his claim. Given that those without insurance during that period were often young and healthy people — and were, by definition, wealthier than those who qualified for Medicaid coverage — it is to be expected that the poorest Americans might have slightly worse medical outcomes.
You are not really crazy. Your reality is just different than the rest of ours.
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