I thought you went on Medicaid if you were poor and had medical bills that needed covering? Was I wrong?
In other words, Medicaid is for poor people who become sick, not something that pays for preventive care for all poor people.
Anyway, from the link that only checked three things: "glycated hemoglobin, a measure of blood sugar levels; blood pressure; and cholesterol levels." Those all affect your health but they are not caused by your health. Cause-effect relationship is backwards there.
What they are is measures of how you are eating and how much execise you're getting. So a more accurate title would be: [I]"Study shows that people on medicaid do not change their eating habits or physical activity levels when enrolled[/I]"
Now I tracked down the actual study, and here is what it said:
"We find that
Medicaid coverage lowered rates of depression and nearly eliminated catastrophic out of
pocket medical expenditures. We find no statistically significant effect of Medicaid on
the prevalence, diagnosis, or medication of hypertension or high cholesterol. Medicaid
coverage significantly increased the diagnosis of diabetes and use of diabetes medication,
but we observe no significant effect on glycated hemoglobin levels or the prevalence of
diabetes."
As is so often done, data suggests one thing, Partisans try to lie about what the data means.