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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Alighieri who wrote (14090)	3/7/2010 8:02:09 PM
From: Lane3	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) of 42652

I would submit to you, we already pay the bill for... There's an important philosophical difference between paying the bill indirectly and establishing an right to something. Lane, you are too focused on the semantics of a word... When words are used as slogans, I think they're important. I spend a lot of time her arguing about the problems with the hyperbolic misuse of "death panels." Same thing, other side. if their outcomes end up in the stats of the Harvard/CDC study We have to take most studies with a grain of salt. All studies have to be read very carefully and few of them demonstrate what they claim. "uninsured, working-age Americans have a 40 percent higher risk of death than their privately insured counterparts" What in the world does that mean. Everyone's risk of death is 100%. <g> There are so many things wrong with the rest of that piece that I won't take them one by one. But the use of epidemiological studies and relative risks stand out. Even if that 40% is valid, which I seriously doubt given that they can't control for the most significant variables, that means that if your risk of death this year is .05% and you lose your insurance, your risk increases to .07%. Are you really going to hide under your bed over that difference? When we read a study that claims to confirm our biases, it looks so compelling. But the vast majority of studies are crap.

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