No no. They say -mortality- isn't affected. Like, people don't die more often without health insurance. There are all sorts of measured benefits of health insur

No no. They say -mortality- isn't affected. Like, people don't die more often without health insurance. There are all sorts of measured benefits of health insurance, quality of life, lower prevalence of medical debt, etc. It's just that a lack of it doesn't lead to people dying sooner. Which kind of makes sense; the cost even with insurance ensures people don't go to the doctor as often as they should, until something is concerning them. And if it is sufficiently concerning, even someone without insurance goes. And if it's going to prove lethal without treatment, even those without insurance will probably still get the treatment, since better to be alive and in debt the rest of their life than dead. Someone else linked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Medicaid_health_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Medicaid_health_experim... and it's a good example; it calls out that those with coverage are less likely to have medical debt sent to a collecitons agency, which implies that those without coverage are still seeking treatment...they just are going into debt for it.