Arguements of Fact

This blog assignment is interesting because I kind of already wrote on this unintentionally above in one of my other blog entries. None the less, I found an article on the Wall Street Journal website entitled “Why Obama’s Healthcare Plan is Better”. I chose this because it has lots of arguments of facts within it. The argument of fact premise is misleading in some ways because the facts are often skewed to help the authors cause or argument. To present a true fact, you have to present all relevant data on that fact. Rarely do authors go to the length to report all such data surrounding facts. The author of this particular article says that “One-third of medical costs go for services at best ineffective and at worst harmful”. I think there are lots of doctors and nurses in this country who would adamantly disagree with this statement. Who or what is to say that 1/3 of costs go for services that are unworthy of their price. This is an inference based on uncited factual data. Not a very believable statement. He also states that “Insurers make money by dumping sick patients, not by keeping people healthy”. While many may feel this way, do you think that the insurance companies would agree? I would be willing to bet that the employees of insurance companies would be quick to dismiss claims. Arguments of fact are very arguable many times. The ones above only begin to show the vulnerability of these arguments.