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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Alighieri who wrote (16147)4/5/2010 7:06:02 PM
From: Lane31 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
If you want to know the effect of a variable on a plan you change that variable and then measure the effect. You don't change two or more variables...unless you are trying to obfuscate.

Hey, that's my line.

I'm looking only at the cost variable, one single variable. You're the one who is slipping in the universal coverage variable. One at a time, I say.

Also, I took the PO cohort, which if you recall was "people who are either uninsured due to cost or uninsurability or who have individual policies that are too costly or too limited" and compared the cost of that cohort under the status quo ante system against the cost of that cohort under PO.

You're the one who wants to have unequal cohorts. "You insist on comparing it to a (non) plan that leaves 30M people without insurance. " Well, yeah, I do. Because part of the cohort happens to be insured in one plan and not in the other. Let the chips fall where they may.

Hey don't make me use an analogy now.

Do you mean my "apples and oranges"? It wasn't a conscious analogy. It's just such a common expression it slipped in unnoticed. Sorry.

We are talking about the effect on cost of a PO. A plan with it, a plan without it.

You may be. I sure haven't been. I see no point in making that comparison outside the confines of legislators picking which option to put forward. They picked on, so now it's moot.

Once the plan without it has been installed long enough to see what we have, if someone wants to propose adding a PO, then your comparison would be meaningful.
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