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Medicaid Expansion Led to Lower Death Rates, Study Says

Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek | Nation | July 26, 2012



Three states that expanded Medicaid in 2001 and 2002, New York, Arizona and Maine, collectively saw a 6.1 percent decline in the death rate for people age 20 to 64 compared to neighboring states, according to the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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