Skip to main content

MPH’s Nikpay looks to the past to suggest how future Medicaid reforms may work

Posted by on Thursday, February 2, 2017 in News .

The United States’ early experience with federally financed health care during the 1950s and early ‘60s can provide insight into the possible outcome of proposed Medicaid reforms, write Andrew Goodman-Bacon, assistant professor of economics at Vanderbilt University, and Sayeh Nikpay, assistant professor of health policy at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine