Medicaid Might Cut Cardiovascular Risk for This One Group

"These findings are important because the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment is one of the few randomized controlled trials that enables us to assess the causal impact of health insurance coverage," co-author Yusuke Tsugawa, MD, MPH, PhD, of the University of California Los Angeles, said in a statement. "Our results should be informative to policymakers and health policy researchers, as they provide robust evidence that health insurance not only improves mental health, as the original study has found, but also improves physical health, such as lowering blood pressure."