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50. What Happens When a Hospital Closes?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Are You Surprised by the Findings of the Hurricane Katrina Study?

Where you get services matters for your outcomes. People that live in counties that experience an obstetric closure, yet they are travelling to hospitals that have higher quality services,. Their birth outcomes might be slightly better as a result of that. Were you surprised by the findings? What i would have expected to find is some negative impacts at least or some groups but i wouldn't say that i expected to see, on average, slight improvements in health and that we really can't identify any negative effects in the study.

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