==If you say that your environmental regulation actually made people healthier then you'd better be able to point to the dropping health insurance rates.== Of

==If you say that your environmental regulation actually made people healthier then you'd better be able to point to the dropping health insurance rates.== Of course the rest of the world doesn't exist in a vacuum, which makes a simple cause->effect relationships hard. In the real world environmental regulations can be making the air cleaner while at the same time an opioid epidemic rages. If opioid costs outweigh air quality savings we won't see "dropping health insurance rates", but it also doesn't mean that no value exists to better air quality. The reverse of your question is: Would health care costs be the same in the absence of air quality regulations?