Fierce Healthcare March 20, 2024
Large-scale Medicaid disenrollment in Tennessee nearly 20 years ago led to increased total crime rates, a new study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found.
Specifically, the working paper shows that nonviolent crime increased following disenrollment, and there is “suggestive evidence” of an increase in violent crime.
“We find that the median county experienced a 16.6% increase in crime rates, with violent and non-violent crime rates raising by 20.6% and 14.1% respectively,” said health economists and professors Monica Deza, Thanh Lu, Alberto Ortega and Catherine Maclean, the authors of the study.
They noted assault and theft as the most common drivers of violent and nonviolent offenses. Mental health and substance use disorder outcome changes appeared to be the primary...
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