From The Heartland Institute [1]:
For example, State Budget Solutions [2] estimated Medicaid savings could have amounted to $48 billion in 2012 had smokers enrolled in Medicaid switched to e-cigarettes. In 2017, the R Street Institute [3] analyzed the effects of “1% of smokers [within] demographic groups permanently switching.” Applying the analysis to Medicaid recipients, the R Street author estimated savings “will be approximately $2.8 billion per 1 percent of [Medicaid] enrollees” [4] over the next 25 years.
Endnotes
- “The Heartland Institute”: https://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publications/research--commentary-virginia-should-not-raise-taxes-on-tobacco-products-or-levy-new-taxes-on-tobacco-harm-reduction-products
- “State Budget Solutions”: http://www.federalisminaction.com/wp-content/uploads/SBSMediciadECigarettes033115-1.pdf
- “R Street Institute”: https://www.rstreet.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/124-6-1.pdf
- ““will be approximately $2.8 billion per 1 percent of [Medicaid] enrollees””: https://www.rstreet.org/2018/03/13/r-street-policy-study-switching-from-tobacco-to-e-cigarettes-can-save-medicaid-2-8-billion-over-25-years/