Article Review: Adverse birth outcomes for all births went down in states that participated in the Medicaid expansion

A study in the June 2020 issue of Medical Care by Clare Brown and colleagues finds that after Medicaid expansion, county-level adverse birth outcomes for all births went down in states that participated in the Medicaid expansion.

For this study, low birth weight (<2500 g) and preterm births (37 weeks gestation) were the variables used to describe adverse birth outcomes. According to the World Health Organization, low birth weight and…