Comments on: Canadian-Style Health Care? Be Careful What You Wish For. http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/03/17/canadian-style-health-care-be-careful-what-you-wish-for/ Cleaning the Augean Stables of the Health Care Debate Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:07:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Catron http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/03/17/canadian-style-health-care-be-careful-what-you-wish-for/#comment-45 Catron Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:46:08 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/03/17/canadian-style-health-care-be-careful-what-you-wish-for/#comment-45 Since the first line of my post contains a link to an earlier entry providing plenty of non-anecdotal data, it should be clear to the meanest intelligence that my point doesn’t stand or fall on the anecdote about Jeff's father. Anecdotes are legitimate if used to augment objective data. It is the reliance on them as the primary foundation of an argument that I object to. And, speaking of "creating embarassments," your last sentence should end with the adverb "seriously" rather than the adjective "serious." Since the first line of my post contains a link to an earlier entry providing plenty of non-anecdotal data, it should be clear to the meanest intelligence that my point doesn’t stand or fall on the anecdote about Jeff’s father.

Anecdotes are legitimate if used to augment objective data. It is the reliance on them as the primary foundation of an argument that I object to.

And, speaking of “creating embarassments,” your last sentence should end with the adverb “seriously” rather than the adjective “serious.”

]]> By: piglet http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/03/17/canadian-style-health-care-be-careful-what-you-wish-for/#comment-43 piglet Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:47:10 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/03/17/canadian-style-health-care-be-careful-what-you-wish-for/#comment-43 So you think this is an enlightening post about Canadian health care: "My father is a textbook example in many year battle against Cancer." Nice. On March 23d, you wrote: "The reliance on anecdotes by various partisans in the debate is, sad to say, due to intellectual laziness. It’s much easier to discuss the problems that Aunt Mabel had with some hospital in Dubuque than to pore over dry statistics relating to such things as per capita health care expenditures and their relationship to outcomes." Nice embarassment you've created for yourself. With posts like that, nobody will ever take you serious ;-) http://ezraklein.typepad.com/blog/2007/03/arguing_health_.html So you think this is an enlightening post about Canadian health care: “My father is a textbook example in many year battle against Cancer.”

Nice. On March 23d, you wrote: “The reliance on anecdotes by various partisans in the debate is, sad to say, due to intellectual laziness. It’s much easier to discuss the problems that Aunt Mabel had with some hospital in Dubuque than to pore over dry statistics relating to such things as per capita health care expenditures and their relationship to outcomes.”

Nice embarassment you’ve created for yourself. With posts like that, nobody will ever take you serious ;-)

http://ezraklein.typepad.com/blog/2007/03/arguing_health_.html

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