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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) expansion of Medicaid to low-income adults is preventing thousands of premature deaths each year, a landmark study finds ([link removed]) .
Conversely, 15,600 older adults died prematurely because of state decisions ([link removed]) not to expand Medicaid.
The lifesaving impacts of Medicaid expansion are large: an estimated 39 to 64 percent reduction in annual mortality rates for older adults gaining coverage.
Since the start of the ACA’s Medicaid expansion to low-income adults, evidence has poured in that the expansion is helping people access and afford care. New research ([link removed]) finds the policy is delivering on its promise to improve both financial security and health-inducing by saving lives.
In other words, if all states expanded Medicaid, the lives saved each year among older adults would nearly equal those of all sages saved by seatbelts.
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› Need a quick read on this new research? We have a blog on how Medicaid expansion saves lives. ([link removed])
› Need more information? We have another blog on "ACA Medicaid Expansion Drove Large Drop in Uncompensated Care." ([link removed])
› See Medicaid expansion's impact in charts with our updated chart book. ([link removed])
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