Here's another installment of rationality quotes. The usual rules apply:
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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.
No, I meant going from 0 access to care to some access to care improves health, as we are discussing the medicaid study comparing people on medicaid to the uninsured.
I currently work as a statistician for a large HMO, and I can tell you for us, medicaid patients generally get the 'patch-you-up-and-out-the-... (read more)