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@lagunabeachdems.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy 1 hour ago

The research keeps piling up. University of Chicago economists, using Census death records through 2022, estimate Medicaid expansion has saved about 27,400 lives, and that roughly 1,600 people still die needlessly every year in the states refusing it.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS FOUND:
Medicaid Expansion Saves Lives.
These Ten States Still Refuse It.
Refuses to expand
Expanded
Every holdout state has a Republican-controlled legislature.
15,600 DEATHS
older Americans lost from 2014 to 2017 alone because their states refused to expand Medicaid, per research in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Harvard studies first proved expansion cuts adult death rates. Refusal is a choice.
LAGUNA BEACH DEMOCRATIC CLUB
Sources: NEJM (2012, Harvard); Quarterly Journal of Economics (2021); NBER; KFF

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