A key question in debates over whether states should implement Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, and whether Congress should repeal Obamacare entirely, is whether government expansions of health insurance coverage improve health, and if so, how much. A new study by Bernard Black and colleagues finds that the uninsured “consume fewer healthcare services, but their health (while alive) does not deteriorate relative to the insured, and, in our central estimates, they do not die significantly faster than the insured.” Come hear Professor Black and leading scholars discuss one of the most important but least understood aspects of health reform.

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