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

To: Alighieri who wrote (14198)	3/9/2010 1:39:17 PM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

The CBO's estimate is unsubstantiated, but your dismissal is credible? Arguments stand and fall based on their own logic, not the status of the person or organization making them. The CBO has fairly fixed rules for its evaluations which 1 - Include static analysis, largely or completly ignoring the effects of how things like higher tax rates will change the actions of the people subject to such rates. 2 - Are subject to being gamed by members of congress for partisan advantage or other concerns other than the truth. Also the CBO was pulling out a specific number when its impossible to do so. Its probably better than many organizations at performing the analysis, but no specific number produced by anyone, about something like this, is credible. And again the CBO wasn't even really addressing the issue. They talk about uninsured people, by the same relatively bogus standards that everyone else does. They are not addressing the issue of involuntarily uninsured Americans.