New England Journal: Two-Thirds of Medicaid Children Denied a Doctor’s Appointment, vs. 11% for the Privately Insured

There is a small cohort of left-of-center health policy analysts who remain in denial about the poor health outcomes caused by Medicaid. And understandably: the principal rationale for Obamacare was its expansion of insurance coverage, half of which comes from a reckless enlargement of Medicaid. If patients on Medicaid fare worse than those who aren’t, then spending $100 billion a year to expand the program is a disastrous choice.