Lies, Damned Lies, and Health Care


	Lies, Damned Lies, and Health Care

strider72

7-7-2009 4:41 PM

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politics, socialism, health care, statistics, single-payer system

strider72 says:

It's amazing what you can come up with when you mess with the numbers enough.

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7-7-2009 4:46 PM

strider72

Much like abortion and slavery -- things look l a lot different if you're willing to point at a human being and say "that's not a person".

7-7-2009 6:11 PM

disenchantedcitizen

Reminds me of this quote:

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. ~Aaron Levenstein

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