<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><div><div><div><div><div style="direction: ltr;"><div><div><div><div><div style="direction: ltr;"><div><div><div><div><div style="direction: ltr;"><div><div><div><div><div><div style="direction: ltr;"><div><div><div style="direction: ltr;"><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;"><div><div style="direction: ltr;"><div><div><div style="direction: ltr;"><div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="3"><font face="Arial" size="3"><br></font></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="3"><font face="Arial" size="3">On Friday, February 21 at 9 a.m., "All About Money" returns with a special edition show on how the failure of Obamacare in op-out states is costing both time and money for Medicaid r</font><font face="Arial">ecipients</font><font face="Arial" size="3">. Our guest is Steffie Woolhandler, M.D. We're hoping to have other guests call into the program.</font></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="3"><font face="Arial" size="3"><br></font></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="3"><font face="Arial" size="3">Dr. Woolhandler is a medical school professor at C.U.N.Y and a co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program.</font></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="3"><br> THOUSANDS TO DIE FROM MEDICAID OPT-OUT</font><div><font size="3">
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<div><font size="3">SAMUEL L. DICKMAN, <a href="mailto:samuel_dickman@hms.harvard.edu" target="_blank">samuel_dickman@hms.harvard.edu</a><br>
STEFFIE WOOLHANDLER, M.D., <a href="mailto:swoolhan@hunter.cuny.edu" target="_blank">swoolhan@hunter.cuny.edu</a></font></div>
<div><font size="3">MARK ALMBERG, <a href="mailto:mark@pnhp.org" target="_blank">mark@pnhp.org</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/pnhp" target="_blank">@pnhp</a></font></div><div><font size="3"><br>
A study just released by <span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(252,252,252)">researchers at Harvard Medical School and the City University of New York finds: "T</span>he number of deaths attributable to the lack of Medicaid expansion in
opt-out states at between 7,115 and 17,104. Medicaid expansion in opt-out states would have resulted in 712,037 fewer persons screening positive for depression and 240,700 fewer individuals suffering catastrophic medical expenditures. Medicaid expansion in
these states would have resulted in 422,553 more diabetics receiving medication for their illness, 195,492 more mammograms among women age 50-64 years and 443,677 more pap smears among women age 21-64." The study, titled "<a href="http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2014/01/30/opting-out-of-medicaid-expansion-the-health-and-financial-impacts/" target="_blank">Health
and Financial Harms of 25 States’ Decision to Opt Out of Medicaid Expansion</a>" was just published by <i>Health Affairs</i>. </font></div>
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<div><font size="3"> Dickman, A.B. at Harvard University and Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H. at Harvard are two of the co-authors. Almberg is communications director for <a href="http://www.pnhp.org/" target="_blank">Physicians for a National Health Program</a>,
which released a <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/01/30" target="_blank">statement on the study</a>: "<span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(252,252,252)">The researchers found that because of the [25] states’ “opting out”
of the Medicaid expansion, 7.78 million people who would have gained coverage will remain uninsured." </span> <br>
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