In a study on Medicaid and mortality rates, Angela Wyse of Dartmouth and Bruce D. Meyer of the University of Chicago conclude that their "findings suggest that lack of health insurance explains about five to twenty percent of the mortality disparity between high- and low-income Americans." It was heartbreaking to read about this study this morning, one day after the Republican Party majority in the United States Senate voted to slash Medicaid in the name of "work requirements" that are demonstrably ineffective. But of course that justification of the cuts under President Donald Trump is secondary to the desire to cut Medicaid that has been a Republican dream for decades. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 2 July 2025)