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A Spillover Effect: Medicaid Expansion Leads to Healthier Dietary Choices – Mirage News
States where Medicaid coverage has expanded have seen a shift from sugary sodas to healthy beverages in people’s purchasing habits. (Sean Flynn/UConn…
Besides providing health care to millions, the Medicaid program helps recipients make healthier food choices, according to work UConn research recently published in the journal Health Economics.
UConn Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics Rigoberto Lopez, Rebecca Boehm now an economist with the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Xi He, now a post-doctoral researcher at the Iowa State University, were interested in investigating the impact on food decisions of Medicaid, a joint federa…
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