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David I find myself in the same position as you about this data.

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> So even if insurance increases health marginally, it doesn’t save anyone money?

Seems plausible to me. Hanson didn't cover this (NRO did) but one of the interesting results was that emergency room use did not go down in the insurance group (and the author remark that while not statistically significant, use may have gone up).

I don't know about you, but I remember hearing it asserted in the health care debate that the poor overused emergency rooms as their 'primary care' and that this was a major source of waste that national health insurance would reduce. Well. Guess not.

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