The point is that what we have is as far away from a free market in health care as it is from a single payer system like the UK or Canada. Therefore making inferences about the failure of free market health care from what the United States has is exactly as intellectually sound as making inferences about the failure of socialist health care from what the United States has.
I don't propose to argue the substantive points, or the broader questions of economic theory they raise. Let it stand that we flatly disagree. And I don't really care if you share my views or not; I'm simply pointing out that your conclusions are not based on anything within miles of proper empirical evidence.
Years ago, I read a book on experimental archaeology that discussed the massive inferiority of bronze to iron and steel as material for armor and shields, based on testing a bronze shield. But then I read carefully and saw that the experimenter had not been able to obtain bronze for some reason, and had substituted copper! Because, well, copper was sort of like bronze and was the closest thing to it he could find.
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Date: 2011-07-04 01:43 am (UTC)I don't propose to argue the substantive points, or the broader questions of economic theory they raise. Let it stand that we flatly disagree. And I don't really care if you share my views or not; I'm simply pointing out that your conclusions are not based on anything within miles of proper empirical evidence.
Years ago, I read a book on experimental archaeology that discussed the massive inferiority of bronze to iron and steel as material for armor and shields, based on testing a bronze shield. But then I read carefully and saw that the experimenter had not been able to obtain bronze for some reason, and had substituted copper! Because, well, copper was sort of like bronze and was the closest thing to it he could find.