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This is a perspective similar to DanielLC's point. Additionally, a commenter there makes the parallel point that we don't really know whether private insurance improves the outcome measures.
True, but we shouldn't overstate the argument. The p-values were not low enough to count as "statistically significant," but the direction of change was towards improved health outcomes. One is doing something wrong with this evidence if one updates against improved health outcomes for public health insurance for the poor (i.e. Medicaid).
Updates always move you towards what you just saw, and so if your estimate was above what you just saw, you update down. If you only consider the hypotheses that Medicaid "improves," "has no effect," or "harms," then this is weak evidence for "improves" (and "has no effect"). But a more sophisticated set of hypotheses is the quantitative effect of Medica... (read more)