The national debate over Obamacare just added a new talking point now that research shows the inspiration for President Obama’s healthcare law appears to have helped people live longer lives.
Massachusetts’s 2006 healthcare law, signed by then-Gov. Mitt Romney, required universal coverage. In the four years since, the state’s mortality rate declined by nearly 3%, and by 4.6% for blacks, Asians and Latinos.
Under Obamacare, such a drop would mean about 17,000 fewer deaths a year.
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