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Hanson's point is that we often over-treat to show we care- not that 0 health care is optimal. Medicaid patients don't really have to worry about overtreatment.
I was interpreting "health care improves health" as "healthcare improves health on the margin." Is this not what was meant?
As someone who has a start-up in the healthcare industry, this runs counter to my personal experience. Also, currently "medicaid overtreatment" is showing about 676,000 results on Google (while "medicaid undertreatment" is showing about 1,240,000 results). Even if it isn't typical, it surely isn't an unheard-of phenomenon.