It’s Safer to be Uninsured than to be on Medicaid

Posted by Joseph D. Coletti in Health Care, Medicaid, North Carolina on Jul 16th, 2010 | one response

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New research shows that Medicaid recipients have a 13% increased risk for dying while in the hospital than the uninsured. Medicaid patients also have longer, more expensive hospitals stays.

Researchers studied outcomes for nearly 900,000 patients across the United States who underwent one of eight major surgical procedures. They found that patients covered by Medicaid incurred a 97% increased risk for dying while in the hospital, and uninsured patients had a 74% increase in risk compared with privately insured patients.

So why does federal health care law will put 500,000 more North Carolinians on Medicaid?

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One Response to “It’s Safer to be Uninsured than to be on Medicaid”

1. Something is wrong | The Incidental Economist says:

   July 17, 2010 at 7:42 pm

   [...] comes word, via a large study by the University of Virginia (h/t Joseph Colletti), that surgical patients on Medicaid are 13% more likely to die than those with no insurance at [...]