Reply #34: Paul Krugman, Ezra Klein and Nate Silver have all been known to be wrong.. [View All]

[girl gone mad]

quite frequently, in fact.

While there may be some evidence that the bill will improve rates for certain groups of people (I am most assuredly not one of them), there is also ample evidence that over the long term a large group of Americans could be much worse off under this reform, which rescues the failing health insurance industry rather than implementing strong cost control measures and guaranteeing access to health care, not merely health insurance.

As I stated earlier, silver is arguing statistics while those he casually denigrates are looking beyond the mere numbers and pondering unquantifiable concepts like justice, corporate ethics, corruption and the true meaningfulness of this reform. To give an analogy in contrast Silver's, it's like trying to explain the 3rd dimension to a flatlander. Nate draws conclusions based solely on the figures that his computer has spit out, but when lives, political control, human progress and even the principals on which our society stands are at stake, computer models are rendered a rather unsophisticated tool.