"Saved lives" or "Could Save Lives" is a ridiculous, un-falsifiable, and unprovable claim.

First, it involves twisting correlation and causation into an Escher knot. Secondly, it's not even what cited source says.

Yes, "reduced mortality along a timeline for a certain demographic" is a good and desirable statistic, but there is no way that it translates into the self-aggrandizing and sensationalistic "ACA/Medicaid saved tons of lives" (whatever "tons" is supposed to mean, in terms of lives. Perhaps grossly obese people died less.)

> "Saved lives" or "Could Save Lives" is a ridiculous, un-falsifiable, and unprovable claim.

Just because you don't understand statistics doesn't mean the claim is ridiculous. You have a pattern of assuming that your rather poor understanding of the world is the ground truth, but it just isn't. People who actually understand statistics and medicine are the ones making the claim, you're just standing here crying "nuh uh" because you disagree with the conclusions but your opinion doesn't mean shit without some backing evidence, which you have consistently failed to provide.

You really owe this forum better, if you want to participate here.