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

To: Road Walker who wrote (3283)	12/16/2007 11:49:13 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

All have the same health care payment system except one, and the one pays double for health care. They don't have the same health care payment system. There is nothing wrong with nuance, you seem to be misusing the word, I'm not sure exactly what you mean by it when you use it, but if you mean paying to much attention to the minor factors, well the exact structure of the payment system may indeed be a relatively minor factor compared to all the others. Before planets where discovered around other stars, there was a wide spread belief that planets near the star would be "rocky planets", and gas giants would be further out. If you drop Pluto as a planet (it isn't considered one anymore and its more icy than rocky so it might not fit in the "rocky" vs. "gas giant" framework), ALL the planets we knew that where relatively close to the sun where rocky, and all the planets we knew that where further away where gas giants. Thats a sample of 4 against 4 (better than 12 against one, because there is less likely to be something special about twelve than one). On top of that our theoretical models of planet formation said that large gas planets couldn't form relatively close to a star. If we accept that small sample you get "all close in planets are rocky planets". Of course now we have found hundreds of planets many of which are close in gas giants. In fact the sample is overwhelmingly tilted that way. But again the sample is too small, (and because of the way we discover planets biased towards detecting large close in planets), so the reality might be very different. I could provide all sorts of other cases where small sample sizes lead to the wrong conclusions, but a long list really isn't needed. You can almost never draw solid conclusions about complex systems from a sample of one, and even 12 or 13, is very iffy.