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More money could result in fewer trips to ER, study suggests (apnews.com)
submitted 6 months ago by StevenSaus@midwest.social to c/health@lemmy.world
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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 room in the nine-month period compared with those who didn’t receive the monthly payments.

“We can trust the poor with money,” said co-author Dr. Sumit Agarwal, a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. “There’s this narrative out there that you give people cash and they spend it on drugs and alcohol. I think we’re one of the first studies to really rigorously and empirically show that’s not the case.”

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[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

“We can trust the poor with money,” said co-author Dr. Sumit Agarwal

No the fuck you can't! If you give money to the poor, they'll have the means to pull themselves out of poverty and then they won't be one of "the poor." And then what??? /s

Also: people who can't afford boots don't have bootstraps to pull themselves up