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Even small bills for health insurance may cause healthy low-income people to drop coverage University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation | May 10, 2021
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Twenty dollars a month might not seem like a lot to pay for health insurance. But for people getting by on $15,000 a year, it’s enough to make some drop their coverage – especially if they’re healthy, a new study of Medicaid expansion participants in Michigan finds.
That could keep them from getting preventive or timely care, and could leave their insurance company with a sicker pool of patients than before, say the researchers from the University of Michigan and University of Illinois Chicago. They have published their findings as a working paper through the National Bureau of Economic Research, ahead of publication in the American Journal of Health Economics.
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Twenty dollars a month might not seem like a lot to pay for health insurance. But for people getting by on $15,000 a year, it s enough to make some drop their coverage - especially if they re healthy, a new study of Medicaid expansion participants in Michigan finds.
That could keep them from getting preventive or timely care, and could leave their insurance company with a sicker pool of patients than before, say the researchers from the University of Michigan and University of Illinois Chicago. They have published their findings as a working paper through the National Bureau of Economic Research, ahead of publication in the American Journal of Health Economics.
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The FDA has announced that it will ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars within the next year, a move the tobacco industry has pushed against for the last decade. University of Michigan experts can comment.
David Mendez
Thuy Le of the Department of Health Management and Policy at the School of Public Health recently authored a study showing that menthol cigarettes contributed to 378,000 premature deaths in the United States between 1980 and 2018.
“Successful implementation of the FDA’s proposed ban on menthol cigarettes has the potential to save hundreds of thousands of lives over a short period and reduce health inequalities, particularly for African Americans,” Mendez said. “While menthol cigarettes were responsible for around 380,000 premature deaths in the U.S. over the last four decades, a disproportionately large number of those deaths occurred among the African American population.”
The Rocket Community Fund and the city of Detroit have pledged a total of $5 million to expand a program that renovates and sells move-in ready land bank homes.
In an announcement expected Thursday, the Rehabbed & Ready program, created by Quicken Loans and the Detroit Land Bank Authority in 2015, will expand into 10 neighborhoods across Detroit through the city s Strategic Neighborhood Fund. The goal is to develop a pipeline of at least 200 homes for sale.
“We are really thrilled about the opportunity to scale,” said Laura Grannemann, vice president of the Rocket Community Fund, the philanthropic arm of Quicken Loans Rocket Mortgage. “And over the last five years, we’ve really proven out the model that when you invest in properties that were formerly publicly owned in strategically located places, you can not only eliminate blight, you can also make sure that sale of that home has ripple effects that are felt by all of the homeowners in that neighborhood. That’s reall