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Re:Heart surgeons refuse difficult operations to avoid poor ... by carbocation on Saturday April 21, 2018 @03:29PM (#16892936)
They effectively did that: they compared public reporting states with other geographically adjacent states.
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Re:Heart surgeons refuse difficult operations to avoid poor ... by fricat1ve on Sunday April 22, 2018 @02:01AM (#16894921)
There's nothing like Boston or NYC in the control states. If the effect is as big as they seem to think--a 21% increase in mortality--that should be visible on a plot of deaths over time.
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