Quote of the day: health insurance
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Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free _Mother Jones Daily_. From Austin Frakt, a health economist at Boston University: > The
evidence that insurance and the access to care it facilitates > improves health, particularly for vulnerable populations (due to age > or chronic illness, or both) is as close to an
incontrovertible > truth as one can find in social science. No argument from me. Routine access to medical care is cheaper than emergency room visits, promotes preventive medicine,
reduces pain, increases mobility and employability, lowers stress, prevents medical bankruptcies, and — unless none of this stuff matters at all — almost certainly lengthens lives.