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>>“In terms of social science, it shows the difference between a naive reading of survey data and an actual research design,” Mr. Taylor wrote on his blog discussing the debate last month. “In terms of politics, it shows the allure of a more glamorous and striking claim, even when incorrect, over a similar claim that is less flashy but actually true.” <<
Used for “AGW” and all the “it is for the children” money- and freedom-stealing initiatives.
In other words, Pocahontas is a LIAR commie as usual.
Of course it is greatly overstated and then reported on as true, outside the borders of our country. My British relatives use this sort of claim as fact and then there is a long discussion on Facebook as to how lucky they are to have their NHS. The Left claims ridiculous statistics on EVERYTHING and they are never held to account.
Fauxahantis is a lying dumbass.
Oh, forgot, she’s a dimbulbcrat congresscritter.
Sentence two makes sentence one redundant.
There’s not much democrats don’t overstate
Hmmmm.
Lie-awatha speak with forked tongue.
Dust.
How come we never hear about the bankruptcies caused by tax obligations?
The entire article has non-comparable facts.
You cannot make arguments, pro or con, on data points that are not about the same thing.
The “new” analysis seeks to point out: “About 4 percent of insured patients and 6 percent of uninsured patients ended up filing for bankruptcy.”
The report then simplisticly seeks to compare the “4 percent” and “6 percent” to “a 2009 study by Ms. Warren and internal physician Dr. David Himmelstein that over 60 percent of bankruptcies in the U.S. were caused by extreme medical debt.”
Yes a percentage that is either 4% or the 6$ are obviously smaller than 60%, but the 4% and 6% are not even talking about the same thing. They are talking about “patients” and the 60% is talking about ALL bankruptcies.
To know any relationship to the two, one has to know the size of “insured” and “uninsured patients” and the size of all “bankruptcies”.
In 2009 there were about 254 million people with some health insurance coverage and about 51 million who did not.
As any survey would try to do is it would want to extrapolate the survey result from the samples they had in the survey to the same demographic groups. Well 4% of “the insured” would be about 11 million, and 6% of “uninsured” would be about 3 million, or altogether about 14 million.
For 2009 there was only about 1.41 million personal bankcuptcies altogether. Obviously there is no way to square the differences between the two “studies”.
To square anything, the total number of bankrupcies being examined in both studies has to be identified. No comparison between the two studies is valid without it. Without it one can only assume the two studies use different data, or differenly include &/or exclude data from the same base, for different reasons; making everything an aplles vs orages case.
Warren speaks truth about as mush as most other libtard progressive Dems and Obama......NONE at ALL!