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

To: TimF who wrote (4021)	1/19/2008 6:57:55 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

It would be a starting point for conversation and for analysis, but not much more. It would be very useful for analysis. When someone makes an insipid assertion like "we can get our health care costs down to X percent of GDP by adopting the Y system, which operates at X percent of GDP," you can, for example, substitute our nursing salaries for theirs and see what happens to Y's percent of GDP. Right now, when you introduce disparate wages or other variables, you get a "huh?" followed by some non sequitur followed by a repetition of the mantra. With the model, you could demonstrate the point you're making. Whether it would past the true-believer resistance, I don't know, but it would have a shot.