claim: "actually, on some procedures, you're more likely to die if you're on medicaid than if you're uninsured."
author: michael needham
evidence_1: mar 2, 2011 ... patients on medicare were 45% more likely to die than those with private  insurance; the uninsured were 74% more likely; and medicaid patients 93% more  likely. that is to say, despite the fact that we will soon spend more than $500 .... if  you can't separate the cause from the effect, with real data, it's hard to ...
evidence_2: jun 20, 2016 ... what do people do when they can't afford end-of-life care? ... for the most part,  patients with insurance have a choice when they receive a terminal diagnosis. ...  using hospice before they die has more than doubled since 2000. ... qualifying for  medicaid is almost impossible unless you're a child, pregnant, ...
evidence_3: apr 22, 2015 ... we wondered if the federal plan was really to blame for such a high mortality rate.  what we found is that if you're on medicaid and you have surgery, ... medicaid  patients also were more likely to die after a procedure than medicare patients ...  alternatively, medicaid and uninsured patients may have been ...
evidence_4: jan 3, 2014 ... now, there are some interesting rules to the cash discount game. ... if you tell  them you have insurance, they will be bound to charge you the ... that the rates  for a procedure are less for insured patients than for someone paying cash. ......  she would most likely not be charged more than the self pay amount.
evidence_5: "actually, on some procedures, you're more likely to die if you're on medicaid  than if you're uninsured." — politifact florida on wednesday, june 28th, 2017.