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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Alighieri who wrote (15913)4/1/2010 1:31:38 PM
From: Brumar893 Recommendations   of 42652
 
Theres no fallacy because

1) he's talking about something that occurred before the bill was passed

2) the provisions requiring people to buy insurance won't take effect for years in the future - pretending otherwise would be a fallacy

3) its logically unlikely that unemployed people will all buy insurance because they're legally required to - more likely they'll opt to pay the more affordable fine - pretending unemployed people will all simply buy insurance because the law says they have to is another fallacy

no longer using and ER for care, which will contribute to a reduction of the actual health care delivery costs from hospitals.

There's another fallacy:

.... A study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that the insured accounted for 83 percent of emergency-room visits, reflecting their share of the population. After Massachusetts adopted universal insurance, emergency-room use remained higher than the national average, an Urban Institute study found. More than two-fifths of visits represented non-emergencies. Of those, a majority of adult respondents to a survey said it was "more convenient" to go to the emergency room or they couldn't "get [a doctor's] appointment as soon as needed." If universal coverage makes appointments harder to get, emergency-room use may increase.
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Expansion of health insurance coverage on its own is likely to increase rather than decrease stress on overcrowded EDs.
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Summing up, its your arguments that are fallacies.
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