Wealthy people tend to be healthier, so kindhearted souls tend to argue that we can improve the health of the poor by handing them cash.

But it doesn’t work. Public assistance may be capable of many things, but making poor people healthier is not one of them, which is a lesson we should apply to Obamacare, Medicare, and Medicaid.

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