Medicaid Expansion May Lower Death Rates, Study Says

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/health/policy/medicaid-expansion-may-lower-death-rate-study-says.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all


By PAM BELLUCK
Published: July 25, 2012

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.