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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (3259)	12/16/2007 12:18:32 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

You can guess that its more expensive in the US. But not that its more expensive with less government involvement. A sample of one isn't enough to support that point.

To: Road Walker who wrote (3259)	12/16/2007 8:26:32 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

From that you can't logically guess that the 'very different' system is more expensive???? Only if you subvert logic in favor of belief. You cannot generalize from one occurrence. You might "guess" or suspect, but you don't have a reasonable basis for your assertion unless you at least go through an analytical exercise of imagining alternative market systems and estimating their costs. A curious mind would do the work, not assert that because one market system costs more, all market systems would inevitably cost more. Ah, but that might slow the bandwagon...

To: Road Walker who wrote (3259)	12/17/2007 2:23:21 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42652

"You have 12 very similar systems with a cost of 50 cents. You have one very different system with a cost a $1. From that you can't logically guess that the 'very different' system is more expensive????" Lets compare this to income US tax receipts. In 2005 the top 1% of taxpayers paid over 39.5% of all taxes while the bottom 50% paid just over 3%. So by your logic the top wage earners need to emulate the income generating habits of the 50% that paid the least. You keep trying to ignore that the US system is paying for nearly all of the medical research in the world. If you want to change the cost of US health care you would have multiple times the impact if you could induce the free riders to pay part of the costs they are avoiding.