Reply #18: Cause those are just statistics [View All]

Doesn't register with a common person who is looking at their own checkbook.

Most of that cost common people never see. Their insurance costs $1200 a month -- they only see $350 on their pay stub. They go into the doctors office and plop down a $20 copay. They don't realize that if it's a large office there are 3 people who deal strictly with bookkeeping and multiple billing systems, not to mention trying to figure out how to pad a bill so that they can get a reasonable return from an insurance company that is doing that "reasonable and customary" nonsense. Or cover a medicare patient whose bill they can't pad. And a hundred other complications.

Never occurs to them cause it takes more analytical requirements than watching dancing or american idol.

That's why the repubs only use very simple bumpersticker arguments. We just confuse them and make them feel stupid.