Medicaid Expansion Could Lower Infant Mortality Rate, Report Says

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Sun, 04/21/2013 - 5:32pm

A proposed statewide expansion of Medicaid could bolster recent efforts to lower infant mortality rates in Ingham County, a new report concludes.

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