Health Insurance Coverage Reduces Number of People in Poverty
(WorldNews Health)

Health insurance coverage reduced the poverty rate by nearly one-quarter in 2014, according to a new analysis in Health Affairsthat factors the premium costs and benefits of health insurance into the poverty rate. That equates to lifting more than 14.4 million people out of poverty. The one-quarter figure represents a reduction from a poverty rate that includes health insurance costs but does not include...