Medicaid, Welfare Dependency, and Work: Is There a Causal Link?

摘要: Medicaid exerts a strong "pull" on potential welfare recipients, increasing the probability that number of single mothers will apply for and stay in order to be covered by Medicaid. However, availability private health insurance coverage positive influence women's decisions work negative effect participation rates. If were as comprehensive readily available at all jobs, its impact promoting would substantially greater than is use welfare.