How to Fix Healthcare

I spent almost half an hour deciding whether or not to post this here on the wiki, to send it as an email to Eben, or to ask about this during Eben's office hours (I keep looking for an excuse to finally go to office hours...). Ultimately, I decided to post it due to our consensus in OnWhyIAmReluctantToTalkInClass that it is better to discuss these questions openly than to selfishly save our participation for one-on-one interaction with the professor. Especially considering that I am not living up to my own goals to participate more despite my general insecurity surrounding the class, it seemed appropriate to post. I apologize in advance if this was not the proper medium.

My question is more meta, since I don't have a clear enough picture of either argument - or health care in general - to really weigh in on the substance. Question: How should we distinguish between a piece of writing that perhaps bites off more than it can chew and thus presents an incomplete argument from a piece of writing that attempts to build something - assuming, that is, that we value the latter?

Again, sorry if this is not a good forum. Reading this, it felt to me like daddy just hit mommy at the dinner table and even though I want to sit quietly and eat my peas, maybe it's better to articulate how Eben and Theo's exchange can help us learn to write more strongly in the future.

-- MolissaFarber - 03 Mar 2009

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