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

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

	▲	whimsicalism 2 days 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 2 days 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.)