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riversedge

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1. Texas did not expand Medicare either-- 2,013,025 people without health insurance in TX...
Sat Apr 25, 2015, 04:58 PM
Apr 2015

From the comment section....

quetzalcoatl 7 hours ago

I guess it's just not enough to these cruel, heartless monsters that they're killing thousands of Texans every year by denying the Medicaid expansion.


"In Texas, the largest state opting out of Medicaid expansion, 2,013,025 people who would otherwise have been insured will remain uninsured due to the opt-out decision. We estimate that Medicaid expansion in that state would have resulted in 184,192 fewer depression diagnoses, 62,610 fewer individuals suffering catastrophic medical expenditures, and between 1,840 and 3,035 fewer deaths."


http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2014/01/30/opting-out-of-medicaid-expansion-the-health-and-financial-impacts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=opting-out-of-medicaid-expansion-the-health-and-financial-impacts
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