{"id":5071,"date":"2011-06-11T02:05:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T09:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5071"},"modified":"2011-06-11T02:05:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T09:05:57","slug":"silence-proves-mckinsey-study-false","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/11\/silence-proves-mckinsey-study-false\/","title":{"rendered":"Silence Proves McKinsey Study False"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republicans have made much ado of late over the the McKinsey Study and it\u2019s claim that 30% of employers will stop employees\u2019 health coverage when the ACA is fully implemented in 2014.  Having spent several years in the opinion research field, I know how to design studies that will produce whatever results I want.  I know how to design an authentic study as well.  I can tell the difference between the two by examining the methodology used.  Any professional can, and lots of non professionals with common sense could as well.  This is not proprietary.  There is only one reason a company would refuse to disclose the methodology of a study.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"11bogusstudy\"The other day, the consulting company McKinsey released a startling study claiming that 30 percent of employers are planning to stop giving health insurance to their workers as a result of the Affordable Care Act. The study received a good deal [Murdoch delinked] of press coverage<\/a> and was widely bandied about by conservative politicians and media outlets as proof that conservative warnings about the law are coming to pass<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

But as a number of critics were quick to point out, McKinsey\u2019s finding is at odds with many other studies<\/strong> \u2014 and the company did not release key portions of the study\u2019s methodology, making it impossible to evaluate the study\u2019s validity. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s now been a new twist in this story.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m told that the White House, as well as top Democrats on key House and Senate committees, have privately contacted McKinsey to ask for details on the study\u2019s methodology. According to an Obama administration official and a source on the House Ways and Means Committee, the company refused<\/font><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for McKinsey \u2014 which does proprietary research regularly \u2014 declined comment… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Washington Post<\/a>><\/p>\n

The reason McKinsey will not release the methodology is simple.  To do so would reveal that the study\u2019s conclusion was predetermined.  In other words, it\u2019s a Republican  lie intended to defraud America.<\/font><\/p>\n

However, for a moment, let\u2019s just assume that the study is correct, and that in 2014, that is exactly what happens.  What then?  What better proof could there be that what we really need is single payer: Medicare for all!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republicans have made much ado of late over the the McKinsey Study and it\u2019s claim that 30% of employers will stop employees\u2019 health coverage when the ACA is fully implemented in 2014.  Having spent several years in the opinion research field, I know how to design studies that will produce whatever results I want.  I […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}