Robin Hanson, PhD: Healthcare Signaling, the Conspicuous Caring Hypothesis, and Prediction Markets in Medicine
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The Karnataka Experiment in India
There was no effect of Medicaid coverage on the prevalence or diagnosis of hypertension high cholesterol levels. No significant effect in the average glycosylated hemoglobin levels or the percentage of participants with levels of 6.5% or higher. If you want to predict medicine in the world, this is a better case than the US. We're not just looking at the poorest people or the sickest people or something here. This is the whole population of India. But a key point is that this is only a hospital medicine. So in some eyes, that's the most valuable medicine we give. And so now we're going to say that in India with 80,000 people over, like, four
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