MONDAY, MAY 12, 2014
Still not sure if health insurance is really worth it? Maybe Massachusetts residents can convince you otherwise. True, mortality rate is affected by numerous factors but the link to healthcare is undeniable. The Massachusetts healthcare lawthat posed as a prototype for the Affordable Care Act is now showing that exact correlation. In the four years since the law was enacted, the mortality rate has gone down by nearly 3% in a four year period.
"Greater access to health care may have prevented as many as 320 deaths per year, the authors estimated. Changes were most pronounced in Massachusetts counties with lower household incomes and higher uninsured rates. According to the authors, providing health coverage to 830 uninsured adults prevented one death per year."
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