[Retric]

One party is hurting their own constituents by limiting access to healthcare at the state level. Verifying this actually has negative outcomes isn’t inherently political. Imagine if the research showed zero correlation, that would have been far more interesting.

Understanding the outcomes of political choices isn’t inherently political. It’s completely reasonable for someone to say yes this saves lives but it’s still not worth the money.

[jtbayly]

Really?

Only thing I can think of that is (sort of) a political decision to “limit health care” is refusing to expand Medicaid.

I know that didn’t happen across the board for Republican counties/states, though, so what in the world are you claiming?

[Retric]

That wasn’t the specific example I was thinking of, but it is illustrative of such policy decisions.

Credit where credit is due, Iowa and Hawaii actually rank very highly in terms of healthcare affordability and outcomes.

[belltaco]

A different track, but the political decision on many on the right(media and personalities) to minimize the dangers of the virus, and demonize the vaccines caused bad outcomes.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/red-blue-america-glaring-divid...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/08/briefing/covid-death-toll...

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/03/03/the-changing...