{"id":2238,"date":"2006-03-19T08:47:17","date_gmt":"2006-03-19T08:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2006-03-19T08:47:17","modified_gmt":"2006-03-19T08:47:17","slug":"new_rand_health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2238","title":{"rendered":"New Rand Healthcare Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2006\/03\/the_new_rand_he.html\">Tyler Cowen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>1. We get only 55 percent of recommended medical attention [TC: hey, didn&#8217;t an earlier Rand study show us that more care doesn&#8217;t translate into better health care outcomes?]<\/p>\n<p>2. &#8220;Those with annual family incomes over $50,000 had quality scores that were just 3.5 percentage points higher than those with incomes less than $15,000&#8230;.insurance status had no real effect on quality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This should make everyone uncomfortable, but most of all those who think that access to health insurance is a panacea.  Here is the press release, the piece is in The New England Journal of Medicine.  Am I supposed to believe the following?:<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Cowen: 1. We get only 55 percent of recommended medical attention [TC: hey, didn&#8217;t an earlier Rand study show us that more care doesn&#8217;t translate into better health care outcomes?] 2. &#8220;Those with annual family incomes over $50,000 had quality scores that were just 3.5 percentage points higher than those with incomes less than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}