The AP reports:
New research suggests giving patients easier-to-take medicine and no-copay medical visits can help drive down high blood pressure, a major contributor to poor health and untimely deaths nationwide.
Fortunately, we need not spend time debunking this — the author does it himself:
Dr. Marc Jaffe, the lead author and leader of a Kaiser heart disease risk reduction program, said it’s impossible to know if the blood pressure program can be credited for those declines, but he thinks it at least contributed.
First, assume a can opener….
Ancient economists joke
When healthcare is free, there will be no healthcare. Hospitals will close; doctors/nurses will quit. We are getting that with it just becoming “Affordable” (Obamacare).
My blood pressure goes up when I am taxed for everything I do and everything I purchase—knowing that the taxes will be wasted by the government for studies like this.
Blood pressure also goes down when one is dead – which, is an outcome more likely to happen when healthcare is “free,” judging from the UK example.
My blood pressure would go down if I didn’t have to pay for medical care.
It’s a simple stress effect, genius.