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Spotlight: Sep 20, 2023

Encouraging immigrants to visit primary care doctors creates a striking decline in costly emergency room use, according to a new study. “This program is fairly low-touch and minimalist, yet it had a meaningful effect,” economist Jonathan Gruber says.

Sep 20, 2023

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