How Medicaid Fails the Poor

Avik Roy, writer for The Apothecary at Forbes, joins Glenn Reynolds to discuss Medicaid, the federal health care program for the poor. Roy explains that most enrollments under Obamacare are in the Medicaid program, and that Medicaid is actually having a negative health impact [cites Oregon study on Medicaid outcomes among others]. Roy also references the successful Switzerland and Singapore models of universal health care insurance employing free-market principles. Hear more about the Obamacare debacle, and Roy's new book, How Medicaid Fails the Poor. (Video 10:32)