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No, Obamacare Has Not Saved American Lives
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<blockquote data-quote="NightHawkeye" data-source="post: 70921646" data-attributes="member: 265226"><p><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445260/obamacare-no-lives-saved" target="_blank">No, Obamacare Has Not Saved American Lives</a></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Some studies do suggest that health insurance can saves lives. But these focus either on individuals with private coverage or on the Massachusetts health-care reform law of 2006, which primarily expanded private coverage within the Bay State. The ACA, by contrast, is primarily an expansion of Medicaid; in recent years, the share of Americans with private insurance has declined.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>...</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Of course, correlation between ACA implementation and increased mortality does not prove causation. Researchers hypothesize that increases in obesity, diabetes, and substance abuse may be responsible. But thanks to the roughly half of states that refused the ACA’s Medicaid expansion, a good control group exists. Surely the states that expanded Medicaid should at least perform better in this environment of rising mortality? Nope. Mortality in 2015 rose more than 50 percent faster in the 26 states (and Washington, D.C.) that expanded Medicaid during 2014 than in the 24 states that did not.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">If one wants to claim dramatic effects from ambiguous data, it is easier to argue that the ACA is killing people.</span></strong> A more reasonable conclusion for partisans of all stripes to accept is merely that the ACA is not saving lives</em>. </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NightHawkeye, post: 70921646, member: 265226"] [url=http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445260/obamacare-no-lives-saved]No, Obamacare Has Not Saved American Lives[/url] [INDENT][I]Some studies do suggest that health insurance can saves lives. But these focus either on individuals with private coverage or on the Massachusetts health-care reform law of 2006, which primarily expanded private coverage within the Bay State. The ACA, by contrast, is primarily an expansion of Medicaid; in recent years, the share of Americans with private insurance has declined. ... Of course, correlation between ACA implementation and increased mortality does not prove causation. Researchers hypothesize that increases in obesity, diabetes, and substance abuse may be responsible. But thanks to the roughly half of states that refused the ACA’s Medicaid expansion, a good control group exists. Surely the states that expanded Medicaid should at least perform better in this environment of rising mortality? Nope. Mortality in 2015 rose more than 50 percent faster in the 26 states (and Washington, D.C.) that expanded Medicaid during 2014 than in the 24 states that did not. [B][COLOR=#0000ff]If one wants to claim dramatic effects from ambiguous data, it is easier to argue that the ACA is killing people.[/COLOR][/B] A more reasonable conclusion for partisans of all stripes to accept is merely that the ACA is not saving lives[/I]. [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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