Don’t Assume That Private Insurance Is Better Than Medicaid - The New York Times

As we recently wrote, it’s better for patients to have Medicaid than to be uninsured, contrary to critics of the program. But is having Medicaid, as those critics also say, much worse than having private insurance?

This idea has become a talking point for conservatives who back big changes to Medicaid, as the Senate health bill proposes. The poor would benefit simply by being ushered off Medicaid and onto private insurance, they write.

But it’s far from proven that Medicaid is worse than private insurance. A lot depends on what kind of insurance is compared with Medicaid, and how they are compared....
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/12/upshot/dont-assume-that-private-insurance-is-better-than-medicaid.html