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To: c.hinton who wrote (1553)8/11/2008 11:45:43 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 3816
 
It was not relevant, because the statement I made was

"They are paying most of the normal medical bills which you would expect and should be budgeted for almost as much as the rent or mortgage or car payments.

They will be protected from very expensive bills that they could not possibly pay, or that if they could pay would totally destroy their financial situation.

The idea that we should have someone else pay our normal medical bills (and in most cases have the payment program subsidized by the employer and indirectly by the government), is one of the reasons that we have such expensive health care."

And none of your stats addressed any of those claims.

My statement about the stats not being relevant was highly specific. They where not relevant to the post you replied to, with

"tim thats only your personal opinion...please post some stats on average income vs average medical costs of the lower middle class in support.

I have posted two authoritative articles(WSJ and Harvard) on administrative costs....please do likewise re affordibility of health care in the US"

But notice that "administrative costs" was not in the post you replied to, and that also they didn't refer to the same thing by a different name. So stats on administrative costs where not relevant.

They (and your stats on life expectancy and infant mortality, and other things) are relevant to the wider issue, but your reply implied they where relevant to the specific post you replied to, and they where not.

Also while relevant to the wider issue, they are hardly definitive, as some of my replies have shown.
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