Medicaid

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Cycling Through Bad Ideas Faster: A Medicaid Branding Worked Example

A two-week solo cycle through three coding rules, a controls ladder, and a behavioral-mechanism test on state Medicaid program branding, ending at a bounded null after expansion-cohort fixed effects collapse a naive +22% headline.

May 2026 · Methodology

What 227 Million Rows of Medicaid Data Can and Can't Tell Us - Too Early To Say

The DOGE-released Medicaid dataset has 227 million rows and 7 columns. Here's what it contains, what's missing, and why the gap matters.

Feb 2026 · Methodology