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To: Road Walker who wrote (350300)	9/11/2007 8:47:53 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573341

re: The stronger your assertion the more support you need for it. Asserting "Single payer is better as proven by the fact that advanced countries with a single payer system have longer average life spans than the US" is a rather strong assertion. There is a ton of data to support it. I don't dispute the premise that the countries you talk about have a longer average life span than the US. I'm disputing the argument and rightfully so because it is indeed faulty. Granting that the premise that the rich advanced countries with a single payer system collectively have a longer average life span than the US, doesn't lead to the conclusion that a single payer system is better, or to the conclusion that the only or main reason they have a longer life span is because they have a single payer system. Your implying that correlation equals causation and it doesn't.