This PPACA thing could be worse than we thought.
A study just out in the latest page-turning issue of Annals of Internal Medicine reveals that health care reform could actually improve our national mortality rate. The study, "Changes in Mortality After Massachusetts Health Care Reform," looked at mortality rates in various Massachusetts counties before and after they passed their own health reform back in 2006. And the data suggests the mortality rate fell nearly 3 percent in just four years.
According to a report in the New York Times, if you extrapolated that nationally, there'd be 17,000 fewer deaths every year.
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