From the Washington Post:
It’s hardly a big leap to think that increases in extreme poverty could lead to increases in mortality, but other studies on the health effect of welfare reform are mixed. In 2008, UC  Davis’s Hilary Hoynes and UC Irvine’s Marianne Bitler summarized the literature as concluding, “welfare reform led to reduction in health insurance coverage, with small and often insignificant impacts on health care utilization and health status.”

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