Evaluating association between Medicare eligibility, excess deaths during pandemic: JAMA Network

2021 OCT 13 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- What The Study Did: Researchers compared deaths among individuals slightly younger and older than 65 years to examine the relationship between access to health insurance coverage (versus no insurance) and COVID-19 mortality.

Authors: Jacob Wallace, Ph.D., of the Yale School of Public Health in New Haven, Connecticut, is the corresponding author.

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(doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2021.2861)

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Keywords for this news article include: Epidemiology, Health Policy, Health and Medicine, JAMA Network, Medicare, Medicare and Medicaid, Mortality, Pandemic.

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