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Old 05-06-2006, 05:57 PM
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Originally Posted by eldondre
hmm. the solution is to hire the canadians to run our healthcare system. if we run it, it will not be efficient or well run. not much uncle sam has run has been. "I think it's broken eh."
That's a nice straw man argument you just wrote there. "A straw man argument is a rhetorical technique based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position. To "set up a straw man" or "set up a straw-man argument" is to create a position that is easy to refute, then attribute that position to the opponent."

The American health care system is inefficient because it has innumerable middle men each taking a piece of the pie, lacks collective bargaining, has nonexistent vertical integration, and spends a lot of money on things that don't improve health care, like marketing and multiple redundant bureaucracies. The Canadian system is a model of synergy that would do a corporate merger specialist proud.

Instead of arguing against this, you misrepresented that I was saying that Americans are innately less efficient, and then knocked down that silly assertion, pretending that you'd actually refuted my argument.

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