Basic income could result in fewer trips to ER, new study suggests By Devna Bose
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Giving cash to poor people could result in fewer emergency department visits, a new study suggests.The study published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association looked at almost 2,900 low-income people who applied for a lottery in the Boston suburb of Chelsea, Massachusetts. Nearly 1,750 of them got up to $400 per month from November 2020 to August 2021.The researchers then looked at health records and found that those who received the money had 27% fewer visits an emergency […]
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