Why do you believe what you believe, concerning your position on health care?

It's a waste of time because YOU are setting the conditions, and they are invalid.

That is not how dialogue is conducted.

And I assume nothing about your capacity to follow your own criteria for two reasons which are obvious; the first is related to the previously mentioned inclusion of invalid sources, and the second is related to our obvious ability to look at the material you've provided and actually see the methods you use.

As I see it, you are saying this; we will compete on a level playing field where I can cheat and you have to tie your hands behind your back.

Even in the absence of this discrepancy, I still consider such an endeavor to be a waste of time because I have NO TIME to engage in a discussion like this which allows the use of anecdotes and non-academic sources. No self-respecting person would.

Have a nice week...this isn't for me. And I'm pretty sure you won't get any traction out of suggesting that I'm afraid to engage in the discussion, because both friend and foe here will probably disagree.

I believe every person and their family should have guaranteed health care, just as is available to families in other industrialized countries.

No American should go bankrupt because they get sick. No more being discouraged from seeking preventive care because of high out-of-pocket costs, or denied needed treatment because the insurance doesn’t want to pay for it.

Like many nurses I see patients harmed and dying unnecessarily every hour of every day because the insurance companies give big money to our politicians.
The result is reform proposals that protect the insurers instead of the rest of us.
Abetter way is to expand and update Medicare to cover everyone. It's the most comprehensive, cost effective, reform of all.

With guaranteed choice of doctor and provider, no co-pays and deductibles, real cost control that eliminates waste and fraud, and comprehensive benefits for less than we and our employers pay now.

I'm just one person doing quite well on a nurses pay.
One person cannot do it but together YES WE CAN!

Lets convince the President and Congress that it CAN happen here.

i think a persons health should be a right, not a privelege...

I'm not following you; health is a condition, not a political construct.

Are you saying healthCARE should be a right?

So what? How does this make any difference?

I choose to not disagree, because it doesn't make any difference if you define it as a right or a privilege or a religion or a color. Defining it as a right simply means that the gov't cannot legally deny you the right to pursue whatever healthcare you might want. It doesn't mean they have any obligation to provide it. Nowhere in the preamble or the bill of rights is it listed that the gov't will give you the substance of these rights, but will only protect your own ability to pursue those rights...i.e. to own a gun, say what you want, be free from unreasonable search and seizure...to name a few.

http://wac.colostate.edu/llad/v5n1/sorrell.pdf

I was explaining why I wasn't going to engage on your chosen topic according to the rules you picked. It's an entirely different discussion.

I am more confident now that I made the right decision...

I think our generation just does. Many of us have watched our parents on a slow decline and watched them face near financial ruin.