[OT-ish] It's Spring, when a young man's thoughts turn to

It posted it for YOU. Know something before you see it, eh? Hurrah! It has some facts despite his hideous voice. Did your wife have the French system at hand when she gave birth? I know... you're going to jingle your big ring of keys and swan about the place - big men have big money and all the stupident (c)Vlad ideas.

A country doesn't care for its people, if they don't make money then they're not worth saving. That's the way forward, what's the worst that can happen? "Let the beast die."

LOL

As those DSP people, get them outa the back room and into politics I say!

Once again you show your IQ.

"It has some facts". Wonderful. Just wonderful.

You've totally lost it. Check into the mental health facility near you *NOW*. At least they might be able to save those around you.

How about the people "caring" for themselves, rather than forcing their neighbor to pay for their existence? The "beast" is (the federal) government.

You are a loon. Seek help!

Its no wonder why the European Governments had to disarm all their insane citizens. :(

You are assuming that regulation does not benefit regulated businesses or their customers in any way, so the cost of compliance is the only factor. I really don't think that is a given.

So if you can't afford the surgery, then you deserve to die.

Why, thank-you kind sir! Excellent indeed.

You criticise things you haven't seen -typical, model citizen in the making.

Brilliant, and it won't cost me a thing.

Hmmmmm guns.... *rolls eyes*

Sure. ^ ^ ^ : )

No it isn't--you make a common, but wrong assumption. People can die for reasons that have nothing to do with medical care.

For example, if you exclude the effect murders & car crashes the USA has arguably the longest life expectancy of any western nation.[1][2]

So, by this measure the US has a murder problem, not a medical care problem. (Would better medical care prevent murders? Nope.)

Since suicides and murders are so often young people, they drag down the average life expectancy disproportionately.

OTOH the leading medical killers of Americans are significantly obesity-related.[3][4] If you eat your way to a heart attack, you're not going to live as long, it's just that simple. And doctors can only patch, not fix it--dead muscle doesn't come back.

So, life expectancy is the populist's measure of medical care, but it's ill-informed.

Similar caveats apply to the infant mortality stats--demographics and lifestyle choices give us /many/ more high-risk births, and we count deaths that other countries don't.

Cheers, James Arthur

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False, obviously. For what our government spends on Medicare (and poor, but generally healthy kids), other governments manage to cover their entire populations. ~1/3rd vs. 100%

How is that efficient?

Cheers, James Arthur

No, I really can't find your intelligence.

Stupid beyond belief.

Do seek help. You need it.

"Duplic"

Yep.

Is it better to rob other people to pay for your surgery?

Then one may as well go and steal money, saying you need it for healthcare. No difference.

Exactly.

Seller does not want to comply, buyer does not want to comply, but third unrelated party forces them to comply by the threat of force.

How could it be beneficial?

Here's the difference between Government and the Mafia:

(IOW, not very much difference at all.)

Cheers! Rich

For the seller; it raises the cost of entry into the market. For the buyer; it lets them know that their lawn mower is not for internal use.

It helps prevent a race to the bottom, where remaining competitive requires crossing your fingers and hoping that you reach retirement before the business collapses, you end up in prison, or both.

Yikes! Buddah help them if they are so desperate as to ask even Terrellable. If they don't pay attention in class, why should they be different on usenet? Mike, I know you are ubiquitous and can't shut up but... Do you ever post ANYTHING helpful reguarding technology?

Maybe the help requests are just a new form of spam based on frequent posters.

Indeed. Companies in highly regulated markets (eg. pharmaceuticals) tend to have high profits. Very beneficial to the shareholders.

It also can have the effect of "commoditizing" a product, which leaves price as one of the few ways of differentiating your product. For example, given specs that match, one AC adapter that has a valid UL file number is much like another, and I don't have to spend thousands of dollars analyzing whether they did or did not (and will or will not in the future) use only approved tape (or resin) from an approved manufacturer half a world way.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany