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usregimechange

(18,373 posts)
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 07:17 PM Jul 2012

Death Rate Dropped Where Medicaid Grew, Study Finds

Into the maelstrom of debate over whether Medicaid should cover more people comes a new study by Harvard researchers who found that when states expanded their Medicaid programs and gave more poor people health insurance, fewer people died.

The study, published online Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine, comes as states are deciding whether to expand Medicaid by 2014 under the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration’s health care law. The Supreme Court ruling on the law last month effectively gave states the option of accepting or rejecting an expansion of Medicaid that had been expected to add 17 million people to the program’s rolls.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/health/policy/medicaid-expansion-may-lower-death-rate-study-says.html?_r=1&hp


Send this to every conservative you know and ask them if they are really pro-life.

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Death Rate Dropped Where Medicaid Grew, Study Finds (Original Post) usregimechange Jul 2012 OP
The repubs are into Turbineguy Jul 2012 #1
Is it intentional? usregimechange Jul 2012 #2
I'm glad the MSM are covering this Rosa Luxemburg Jul 2012 #3
I'm sure that the pro-life right will be all over this good news. toddwv Jul 2012 #4
+1 freshwest Jul 2012 #5
+1 usregimechange Jul 2012 #6

toddwv

(2,830 posts)
4. I'm sure that the pro-life right will be all over this good news.
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 08:30 PM
Jul 2012

Can't wait to hear them hem and haw as they try to justify their insipid position.

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