Harvard Study Finds Medicaid Expansion Saves Lives - July 31, 2012

A new study conducted by Harvard health policy experts and published by the New England Journal of Medicine found that expanded Medicaid coverage for adults in three states reduced deaths in those states. The study evaluated New York, Arizona and Maine’s expanded Medicaid programs, comparing health factors and mortality of similar population in states without expansion. In expansion states, results showed 19.6 fewer deaths per 100,000 adults, with the greatest differences seen in older people, nonwhites and residents of poorer counties.