Study gauges positive impacts of Medicare on low-income adults (IMAGE)

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Study gauges positive impacts of Medicare on low-income adults

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Researchers find that Medicare eligibility and coverage at age 65 years was associated with improvements in health care access and reductions in financial strain from medical bills for low-income US adults, and to a lesser extent, for higher-income US adults. Created with stock images from Authority Dental (CC BY 2.0) and Twitter Emojiis (CC BY 4.0).

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Rishi Wadhera (CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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