The following appeared in a memo to the Saluda town council from the town’s business manager.
“Research indicates that those who exercise regularly are hospitalized less than half as often as those who don’t exercise. By providing a well-equipped gym for Saluda’s municipal employees, we should be able to reduce the cost of our group health insurance coverage by approximately 50% and thereby achieve a balanced town budget.”
Discuss how well reasoned . . . etc.
In this argument, the author reached the conclusion that introducing well-equipped gym could help municipal employees to enhance their body and thus could lead to a decrease in the cost of health insurance and achieve a balanced town budget. The author used a research which investigates the relationships between health and the frequency of exercising. The author’s assumptions are suspicious and the supporting ideas given in the passage are too insufficient to uphold the author’s idea.
First of all, the author’s argument is based on an ill-founded assumption that the only reason causin...
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