> The UBI folks were cursed by the pandemic and inflation. You cannot deal with that confounder.
The study had a control group, who also experienced pandemic & inflation.
The study had a control group, who also experienced pandemic & inflation.
For example, Brazil created their current public health system in 1988, realizing it in 1990, during inflation that was between 1,000-2,000%. It wasn't really functional then. Looking at it in isolation, at the time it was created, it would look like a failure, but all of Brazil looked like "a failure." Would it be valid to use SUS as implemented during 1,000% inflation as an example of why public health insurance is bad? No way.