Given the recent discussions about the public healthcare "option" in the US. I've been a bit curious as to how our own healthcare system in Australia has affected things. So I've been thinking about exploring it's affects, and how things were before it existed, etc.
A sort of case study, however, I've never done any research like this when I was at Uni, so does anyone know of any good books I can find on the subject of statistics, etc, they may help me in trying to interpret what I find? I want to try and approach this as scientifically as I can.
All Universal Health Care would have to do in order to justify it's own existence is allow people to freely opt out. And I mean completely opt out. If you choose not to use the service, you get the tax money that would have been spent on it refunded. This should be a simple option, no fees, no climbing Mt Bureaucracy.
If UHC did this and people stuck with it anyway over the long term, that would show government really is the best one for the job. If they do not, then UHC's entire argument falls flat.
The fact that UHC refuses to do this is on par with Sylvia Brown's continued refusal to take James Randi's test.