The only other large, randomized study like the RAND experiment is the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment. In 2008, the state of Oregon held a lottery to decide who was eligible to enroll in Medicaid. This gave researchers the opportunity to compare the health outcomes of lottery winners and losers.31 Like in the RAND study, lottery winners ended up consuming more medicine than lottery losers.32 Unlike the RAND study, however, the Oregon study found two areas where lottery winners fared significantly better than lottery losers.
