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Caught a bit o’ Rob Roper on the Ethan Allen Institute Vanity Project* this morning. (A “bit” is all I can take.) And boy, did he have a doozy to start the show.
Talking about George Till’s SurveyMonkey poll, he posited that, as far as we know, the non-doctors who took the survey are all supporters of single-payer. And so, Roper concluded, the results of the survey are even more dramatic and meaningful!
Just think: if 53% of responders said they would stop practicing in VT if it adopted single-payer, and single-payer advocates had their thumb on the other end of the scale, then that means an unknown but very large majority of actual doctors might leave the state! And if the 44% in favor of single-payer included a lot of its advocates who are not doctors, then that means a majority of Vermont doctors must be against the idea!
Which, of course, ignores the basic issue: we have no real idea who took the survey, so we have no real idea whether the results mean anything or not. But by all means, Rob, spin away.
*a.k.a. “Common Sense Radio” on WDEV.
Logic, math and science have never been their long-suit.
I’m guessing he’s all in a tizzy because he only invited doctors had said they’d leave the state, and all those other uninvited respondents went and messed up his poll’s intended conclusion (aka, a large majority of doctors would leave, which is laughable on its face)…