Researcher from Yale School of Public Health Details Findings in Science (Mortality and morbidity ramifications of proposed retractions in healthcare coverage for the United States): Science

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2024 MAY 03 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Investigators publish new report on science. According to news reporting originating from the Yale School of Public Health by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “In the absence of universal healthcare in the United States, federal programs of Medicaid and Medicare are vital to providing healthcare coverage for low-income households and elderly individuals, respectively.”

Financial supporters for this research include Notsew Orm Sands Foundation; Yale Burnett Endowment.

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Yale School of Public Health: “However, both programs are under threat, with either enacted or proposed retractions. Specifically, raising Medicare age eligibility and the addition of work requirements for Medicaid qualification have been proposed, while termination of continuous enrollment for Medicaid was recently effectuated. Here, we assess the potential impact on mortality and morbidity resulting from these policy changes. Our findings indicate that the policy change to Medicare would lead to over 17,000 additional deaths among individuals aged 65 to 67 and those to Medicaid would lead to more than 8,000 deaths among those under the age of 65.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “To illustrate the implications for morbidity, we further consider a case study among those people with diabetes who would be likely to lose their health insurance under the policy changes. We project that these insurance retractions would lead to the loss of coverage for over 700,000 individuals with diabetes, including more than 200,000 who rely on insulin.”

For more information on this research see: Mortality and morbidity ramifications of proposed retractions in healthcare coverage for the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024,121(18). The publisher for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2321494121.

Our news journalists report that more information may be obtained by contacting Abhishek Pandey, Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06510. Additional authors for this research include Meagan C. Fitzpatrick, Burton H. Singer, Alison P. Galvani.

ORCID is an identifier for authors and includes bibliographic information. The following is ORCID information for the authors of this research: Abhishek Pandey (http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4578-7487), Meagan C. Fitzpatrick (http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5248-2668), Burton H. Singer (http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5295-5971).

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