Medicaid And The Opioid Epidemic: Correlation is not Causation

Recently, Ron Johnson (R) of Wisconsin launched an investigation into whether the Medicaid expansion that was part of Obamacare caused America's opioid crisis. Healthcare Triage has looked at the evidence, and we think it's a dubious claim. This episode was adapted from a column Aaron and Austin Frakt wrote for the Upshot at the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/12/up... Good news! I’ve got a book on that topic coming out November 7. It’s called The Bad Food Bible: How and Why to Eat Sinfully. You can preorder it right now, and it’s also the topic of this week’s Healthcare Triage. Preorder a copy now!!! Amazon - http://amzn.to/2hGvhKw Barnes & Noble - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-... Indiebound - http://www.indiebound.org/book/978054... iBooks - http://itunes.apple.com/us/book?isbn=... Google - http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISB... Kobo - http://www.kobobooks.com/search/searc... Any local bookstore you might frequent. You can ask for the book by name or ISBN 978-0544952560 John Green -- Executive Producer Stan Muller -- Director, Producer Aaron Carroll -- Writer Mark Olsen – Graphics Meredith Danko – Social Media   / aaronecarroll     / crashcoursestan     / johngreen     / olsenvideo   And the housekeeping: 1) You can support Healthcare Triage on Patreon: http://vid.io/xqXr Every little bit helps make the show better! 2) Check out our Facebook page: http://goo.gl/LnOq5z 3) We still have merchandise available at http://www.hctmerch.com