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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (3385)12/20/2007 5:40:42 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 42652
 
There are two major problems with putting so much weight on analysis.

1 - Different people have different ideas and goals. Even if analysis can show us what will happen with different plans, it can't say which plan is the best. It can only give information to people to use to determine what is best.

2 - Its questionable whether such analysis can really give us information about what the results of different plans will be with any degree of confidence. The real world is always a lot more complex than models of it. In terms of military plans its often said "no plan survives first contact with the enemy". In non military areas you might not have the same type of enemy but the general idea still holds.

Neither of which means I'm against analysis as a tool, or against applying it to this particular issue, but its important to understand its limits.
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