Think US Has a Debt Problem? Consider Health Care

[rbohm]

Originally Posted by EinsteinsGhost

Poor assumptions. Managing anything is a science, where you don't always go full scale. If something as substantial as health care doesn't work at a small scale, a different set of rules won't apply and make it work successfully on a larger scale, and vice versa.

By the same measure, so what if the US Constitution was designed at a time when this country had only 7 million people?

bad comparison. the constitution is the frame work for the country as a whole, and still works today despite the changes in technology and size. but when talking about something like health care, the more people you put in the government system, the higher the cost to everyone.

[EinsteinsGhost]

Originally Posted by rbohm

bad comparison. the constitution is the frame work for the country as a whole, and still works today despite the changes in technology and size. but when talking about something like health care, the more people you put in the government system, the higher the cost to everyone.

With "framework", you're now talking the kind of science and scaling that is applied in management and engineering as well. The science also works on statistical polls, a disbelief in which would be fine as long as you've NEVER taken them seriously.

Your claim that larger population would put more people into the system doesn't really cut it, because it doesn't take into consideration what scaling is. With more people in it, there are also more people contributing into it.