Healio (6/21, Herpen) reports, “Rates of suicide among adults in the United States decreased following the 2014 expansion of Medicaid, with the sharpest subsistence occurring for young adults,” researchers concluded in a study that “obtained information from the National Center for Health Statistics included all individuals from the United States aged 20 to 64 between January 2000 and December 2018” among whom “a total of 553,912 deaths by suicide were recorded.” The findings were published online June 15 in JAMA Network Open.
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— “Suicide rates, incidence in U.S. adults decreased following Medicaid expansion “Robert Herpen, Healio, June 21, 2022