The following article by Dylan Scott was posted on the Vox website October 10, 2017:
It seems like we spend all of our time debating whether health insurance actually improves people’s health and, to a lesser extent, how much financial security it provides them.
Those things are important! But health coverage also changes our society in ways that aren’t so obvious.
For instance: Health insurance seems to help fight crime.
This concept has been floating out there for a while: Friend of VoxCare Adrianna McIntyre wrote about “Obamacare’s secret crime-fighting potential” back in 2014. Continue reading “The striking new evidence that expanding health coverage reduces crime”