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applegrove

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Mon Sep 30, 2019, 05:55 PM Sep 2019

Obamacare Has Made People Healthier

Obamacare Has Made People Healthier

September 30, 2019 at 12:56 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard81 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/09/30/obamacare-has-made-people-healthier/

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Washington Post: “Poor people in Michigan with asthma and diabetes were admitted to the hospital less often after they joined Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. More than 25,000 Ohio smokers got help through the state’s Medicaid expansion that led them to quit. And around the country, patients with advanced kidney disease who went on dialysis were more likely to be alive a year later if they lived in a Medicaid-expansion state.”

“Such findings are part of an emerging mosaic of evidence that, nearly a decade after it became one of the most polarizing health-care laws in U.S. history, the ACA is making some Americans healthier — and less likely to die.”

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Obamacare Has Made People Healthier (Original Post) applegrove Sep 2019 OP
And more likely to vote! applegrove Sep 2019 #1
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