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

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (24567)	8/20/2012 8:19:59 PM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Respond to of 42652

Just pretending that a likely occurrence is not going to happen does not make it go away. I would agree with that. But I see no indication that it's feasible let alone a likely occurrence and you have declined to offer one. Right now it's just an upsetting thought, best I can tell. Until and unless someone describes how it gets to be likely, it isn't likely. Getting eaten by a giant cockroach is an upsetting thought, too, but until and unless someone can describe how a cockroach in your neighborhood might grow big enough to eat you and why it might be inclined to do so, it's no more or less likely than manipulating the system to favor the politically connected. What is it about feasibility and likelihood that you don't get? "Likely" is not just a meaningless adjective like "nice" that you can use indiscriminately. It has meaning. Feasibility requires some notion of how it could happen. Likelihood requires not only feasibility but a certain probability of occurrence based on some logic and evidence. We're too old for "the boogeyman is going to get you" to be regarded as a legitimate probability.