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Afternoon Must-Read: Jonathan Cohn: Massachusetts Health Reform Saved Lives, So May Obamacare

Jonathan Cohn: Massachusetts Health Reform Saved Lives, So May Obamacare: “Benjamin Sommers… Katherine Baicker… and Sharon Long…

…were able to isolate causes of mortality “amenable to health care.”… Then they compared how the people in Massachusetts fared relative to groups of people from around New England… [who] lived in states where similar expansions of health insurance were not underway…. For every 830 people who got insurance in Massachusetts, about one person avoided a premature death. That’s a big payoff…. Obamacare might have one, too. If millions of additional Americans end up with health insurance because of the law… at least that a few thousand are going to live longer…

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Afternoon Must-Read: Jonathan Cohn: Massachusetts Health Reform Saved Lives, So May Obamacare

May 5, 2014

May 5, 2014

U.S. economic mobility trends and outcomes

U.S. income and wealth inequality are no longer increasing, but a return to the equitable levels of the mid-20th century isn’t likely anytime soon