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By which he means simple-minded enough for him to follow.

The TI parts do tend to be cheaper, and you have to read a lot of data shee t to realise why the ADI part might do a better job (and justify the higher price), in the rare event that you need the job done better. If your typic al product development cycle takes a fortnight, you don't often have time t o do that.

Every time you use an op amp, you have to check whether an LM324/LM358 woul dn't serve adequately.

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As much progress as Obama could squeeze through a Congress dominated by hea lth insurance company lobbyists.

Sadly, what the US has isn't a remotely socialist regime. Something sociali st - like the systems that work rather better, in Germany, the Netherlands and France, cost two-thirds of the price per head, cover everybody, and don 't drive anybody into bankruptcy.

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James Arthur sees the taxes coming out of his pocket very clearly. He's a b it vaguer about what happens to them.

Germany, Scandinva, France and the UK are on the verge of collapse? Only in James Arthur's private universe.

Obamacare was what Obama could get through Congress. It did provide health insurance for a lot more people than had ahd it before.

"The CDC reported that the percentage of people without health insurance fe ll from 16.0% in 2010 to 8.9% during the January?June 2016 period".

Every other advanced industrial country has universal health care at two th irds or less of the price per head, but Obamacare did get the US a bit clos er to a 2Oth century level of performance, admittedly in the 21st century, but James Arthur's hero is Bastiat who died of tuberculosis in 1850 - and t uberculosis is just the kind of disease that universal health care eliminat es.

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Cursitor Doom lives in the UK and relies on the UK National Health system.

Bitrex doesn't pay anything into that, but Cursitor Doom likes his nice warm comfortable feelings and isn't too picky about where they came from, which is why he reads the Daily Mail and Russia Today.

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That sounds pretty specialized.

I thought you understood the concept of ROI.

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krw

Not being a native-born American I'm not sure whether Joerg is familiar with the following extremely common characteristic of Americans, on average:

a) Do something that they were planning on doing already

b) retroactively rationalize the reason for "making the decision" to be something that makes them feel comfortable, or the person they're talking to wants to hear

Which is the big problem with making "I know lots of people who did X for reason Y" statements in America and attempting to draw any kind of global conclusions from what you learn. Seems enough people said they were going to vote for one candidate while doing something quite different in the previous election to make the outcome a surprise to many whose actions were in congruence with what they said.

So far in this thread we've had anecdotal stories of young women paying for their maybe 40 or 50k college tuitions waitressing part time, and

20-somethings easily living an upper-middle class lifestyle supported only by their meager wages from entry-level white collar jobs.

I imagine it's definitely possible to get a strange impression of how America actually operates if one goes around taking everything Americans say about their politics and their finances at face-value.

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LoL, I put her through college, paying for a Masters Degree (in her last semester) giving her a stipend and, if she is excepted, paying for Dental school, that will be another $250k, piggybacking on her $10.00 a month plan seems reasonable. If you have different standards, good for you. Mikek

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Look like you don't.

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Yet it's ok for Joe Citizen to die on a waiting list?

Not sure what you are doing there but my process was always very simple. I spent a few hours on researching health plans and picked one for our family. It isn't rocket science. Then we stuck with that for, oh, 20 years or so.

BTW, that was the same in a semi-socialized medicine country (Germany). My health is IMO worth that much invested time.

Just one example of many: Why should I be thrown into the same risk pool with smokers and pay for their bad habit when I don't smoke? With Obamacare it doesn't make a difference because the legislators pushed that law were too stupid for that.

Obamacare is a whole different matter. I explained it to people countless times before they made some colossal mistake. For example, hardly anyone knows about the cliff and most of all about the workarounds.

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If he's a poor or lower middle-class American paying for private health insurance currently, with what he can afford vis a vis the plan he has already being on a waiting list is _already_ par for the course, and has been for some time, certainly pre-dating Obama.

In that bracket to add insult to injury you pay relatively large amounts of money relative to your income to a middleman who from your perspective does precisely nothing to directly improve your health to receive care generally no better, and often substantially worse, than what a Canadian gets for free.

If he's more well-to-do then there will likely always be people willing to take money for better service, nobody is going to turn down cash. Private health insurance is a shell game by which the people most able to cover their own _realistic_ risk out of their own pockets unload a portion of that risk onto the people the least able to cover theirs, the poor and the young, which is why Conservatives are enamored of it.

Then claim the "moral failure" is at the bottom, not where it actually resides.

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And yes, every Conservative has their "welfare-queen anecdote" to support the status quo. I saw someone buy lobster on EBT. This one guy bought a Camaro instead of spend their money wisely on health insurance. Someone did this, someone did that, I saw a girl naked one time. What else is new.

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bitrex

Yes, LittleBit would expect you to pay for his kid's college, room, board, ObamaCare, *and* ObamaPhone. That way she wouldn't be beholding to you. "It takes a village."

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krw

Clearly, you believe support is free. I thought you were in business, but obviously not.

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krw

Certainly! He should have joined the Party if he wanted full benefits of the state.

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krw

People tend to turn to the state when all they get anywhere else is snide f*ck-you-got-mine attitudes from the 50 million other krws out there with attitudes materially no different. Funny how you rage against "collectivism" while not being much more than a carbon copy yourself.

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bitrex

"I see you out here in your Daddy's car...don't be somber, 'least you look good!"

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bitrex

Didn't realize parenting was a quid-pro-quo.

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bitrex

Lefties are all pathological liars. It's a requirement.

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krw

Lefties are stupid too. It's a requirement.

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krw

IOW: "If you're too lazy to provide for yourself, you have a right to take it from someone else."

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krw

Clearly wrong. Even a _Canadian_ judge has said in his opinion after a ruling against the government in a case where they tried to prosecute someone for using US health care "Access to a waiting list is not access to good health care".

Now that doesn't make sense at all.

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