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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The health outcomes to healthcare spending is just an unsophisticated argument that sounds plausible on the surface but I just don't think the relationship is really there unless you actually believe that our citizens need doctors to understand that eating McDonald's everyday is a bad idea.[/quote]

But maybe if more people had access to primary care, they could get someone to explain to them what eating McDonald's every day is doing to them. And perhaps there would be some intervention way before that Medicaid-paid visit to the ER. And the rest of us wouldn't have to pay so much for all those uninformed lifestyle choices.[/quote]

At this point in time, everybody knows what alcohol and tobacco do to people, and people keep drinking in excess and smoking too much. The idea that lack of access to primary care is is preventing people from making good lifestyle choices is hard to buy into. Additionally, that's an extremely tenuous connection for healthcare spending to health outcomes. [/quote]

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