“...it’s not like this is an absolutely new phenomenon. To actually have some meaning, statistics are needed to show it has become more common.”
Ok, how about you do a comparative display (you know, those meaningful statistics you are telling us about) telling us that this is a normal amount of cancellations???
We’ll need to see who sanctioned the study, the data, in raw form, the source who compiled the data, and who paid for the study...
I mean, as long as we should be accepting the fact that people are losing their coverage is not that big a deal, according to you...
Should be easy...We’ll need to see that information, by COB next Friday...
Where did I say this wasn’t a big deal?
I’m criticizing specifically the absence of actual evidence, of the type you describe, in the article.
To disprove my point, one would have to demonstrate that nobody had ever lost their coverage prior to this year. Since that’s obviously not the case, the only issue relevant to the discussion is how often such loss has occurred over time.
Absent such statistics, all you have, as in this story, is a sad anecdote, which in a country of 300M+ are by definition legion.
I strongly suspect his basic point it quite true, I just want him to prove it more effectively.