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

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (16360)	4/7/2010 9:22:22 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Wanting to hear an argument rather than accepting someone else's conclusion on faith hardly represents stonewalling. and show your own numbers....no words, real numbers You want a real number? 4. Besides being a real number its also a positive integer. If you want real numbers in the sense of meaningful relevant numbers, well you haven't provided any either. You've provided the results of of GIGO process. I could make my own less sophisticated GIGO process, but I don't see much point in doing so. Tossing out numbers isn't making a real argument, and isn't a response to an argument that there is no real way to get such numbers about the future. Before you can get to the numbers you have to establish a rational basis for the numbers and a solid methodolgy for your method of calculating them. You need words before the numbers will have any meaning. If the you think that the program will reduce the deficit and reduce health insurance prices, then tell me why you think so. Tell me how they will lower prices, and why the factors that I've mentioned won't increase prices. Then you have some thing worth considering. If your argument is solid you might even convince me. Just tossing out a number as a prediction for the future without context and without giving any reason to believe it, is pretty useless.