Goldman Sachs Concludes Obamacare Added 500k Jobs

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(04-22-2017, 06:51 PM)THE Bigzoman Wrote: I don't see how this is reckless at all...

The onus would be on those denying this relationship to show that Health care goods/services are an exception to the rule. There's nothing suggesting that health care commodities are abnormal.

You probably understand my argument better than anyone here. You see where i'm coming from.

The issue is that in any research scenario, you're going to find that the results of the statistical modeling will show findings that are not significant at the p<.05 interval, maybe a few at the p<.1. The results aren't likely to show definitive causation because of the rise in costs prior to the bill's implementation and other contributing factors to the change.

Here we delve into the field I'm working on a degree in, which is public policy assessment/evaluation. The difficulty in measuring outcomes to policy is extremely high for things like this. Saying a program has a positive or negative result is easy, proving it is another thing entirely. All because of external variables that can be difficult to control for. I only wish I was further along in my studies, or I could explain it a bit better!