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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

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But it’s interesting because I started seeing, even though for instance I was working on this much earlier, but I published my large meta-analysis linking this to risk for premature mortality back in my first one in 2010. I’m wondering, you talked about that patient who was really isolated and coming to the emergency room.

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In a First, Trump and GOP-Led Congress Prepare To Swell Ranks of U.S. Uninsured

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Government-backed universal coverage has eluded U.S. ” Yet subsequent efforts to expand coverage to all Americans were met with backlash from unions who wanted health insurance as a bargaining chip, providers who didn’t want government oversight, and those who had coverage through their employers. policymakers for decades.