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Understand the Big Picture, Please, Pt.3 – Sticks and stones vs. gurus.

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Now for the technical evidence, for those who care enough to really understand. The Commonwealth Fund organization is a New York-based non-partisan health insurance/care think tank. They consistently perform very thorough and exhaustive studies on health insurance/care conditions and trends: Past; Present; and Future projections. Their surveys and studies are so in-depth that they can almost tell you what you had for dinner last night. Or, at least, what you talked about. They have just delivered the latest projections concerning health insurance/care, independently based on their own data, concerning what we should expect from each of the candidates’ proposals that are before us now.

Of course, there will always be critics, but it is interesting to note that these findings happen to line up with the findings of many other independent health insurance/care study organizations. Those would be groups like: The Tax Policy Center; the Urban Institute; the Brookings Institution; the nonprofit, nonpartisan New America Foundation, a public policy institute; the Kaiser Family Foundation; nonprofit, non-partisan Employee Benefit Research Institute; Jonathan B. Oberlander, an associate professor of social medicine and health policy at the UNC at Chapel Hill; and the Journal of Health Affairs. A lot of health insurance/care heavyweights here. For in-depth info, please refer to the article series’ entitled: “Two Divergent Visions; Which is best?”.

Health insurance/care wonks they may be, but these are the same people who bring good things to life. They largely dedicate their time for the wellbeing of others, for the good of all. Now, there are those who quickly dismiss educated peoples as being ‘hippie, pinko commies’ (liberals). But remember, these same people were labeled by the ‘commies’ in Cambodia during the ‘killing fields’ as ‘hippie, pinko capitalists’. How can both be true? Perhaps this is because extreme ‘ideologists’ on both sides (‘commies’ and ‘capitalists’) view evidence-based reasoning as a horrible thing?

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