  As the US Government plays an increasing role in health care, it becomes
essential to understand the impact of expensive legislation on actual outcomes.
New York, having spent the last decade heavily legislating health-related
behavior, represents a unique test case to gain insight about what factors
cause health care legislation to succeed or fail. We present a longitudinal
study comparing bills across 13 Health Areas to measure the effect legislation
in that Area had on 311 hotline service complaints. We find that there is
statistically significant evidence with p-value $p=0.05$ that legislation in
the Hazardous Materials Health Area correlated with a positive change in
outcomes. The other Health Areas correlated with changes, but were not
statistically significant.
