I'm honestly curious how we square this with the only experimental evidence we have on cost-sharing in the US, like the Oregon Medicaid Study and the RAND study which showed no impact on mortality or really any physical health outcomes at all.

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loeg a day ago | parent [-]

UHC proponents are just excessively optimistic about impact on health outcomes.

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jacquesm a day ago | parent [-]

No, they are excessively optimistic about the financial outcomes. Healthcare should not bankrupt people.

	▲	whimsicalism a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		This study appears to just take observational mortality averages between insured and uninsured and then assume that UHC would close the gap. Patently absurd imo, but I guess I'm not a healthcare economist.
	▲	loeg a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		They're excessively optimistic (as in, unrealistic) about both. (Healthcare mostly doesn't bankrupt people -- the vast majority are insured, and the rest pay ~nothing.)