From: Carbon on
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:23:08 +0000, assimilate wrote:
> On 21-Feb-2010, "John B." <johnb505(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there a system elsewhere in the developed world that doesn't
>> "catch" more than 40% of its population?
>
> I'm not sure where you get your figures but you are smart enough to
> know they are false.

All the stats which say inconvenient things are hereby wrong...
From: Carbon on
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:27:06 +0000, assimilate wrote:
> On 21-Feb-2010, BAR <screw(a)you.com> wrote:
>
>> Did you ask him why ignored the cyst? Being in a field where problems
>> can go from very simple to full scale catastrophe quickly, I would put
>> the onus on your friend for his medical problems.
>>
>> > Bert, this guy could be you. It could be one of your friends. The
>> > current system is unjust.
>>
>> Sure, it could be anyone. But, I still don't see the solution being
>> Universal Health Care.
>
> any contractor or independant should have an HSA and major medical. It
> is not expensice and tax deductible.

And if you lose your job and can't find another one due to the
recession? What then?
From: assimilate on

On 21-Feb-2010, Carbon <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

> > The French built the Maginot Line. Should England and Canada done the
> > same thing after WWI?
>
> The French also built a much superior healthcare system than the US did.

and their youth suffer 20% unemployment (close to 50% in the suburban
"banlieus") to pay for it. The "youth" in the latter neighborhoods have
nothing to occupy their time but buring cars it seems. The hidden costs of
UH

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bill-o
From: assimilate on

On 21-Feb-2010, BAR <screw(a)you.com> wrote:

> > Average life expectancy:
> > http://goo.gl/fZQW
> >
> > Cost of healthcare as percentage of gross GDP:
> > http://www.who.int/entity/whosis/whostat/EN_WHS09_Table7.pdf
>
> Go live in France.

I did, it isn't bad. But it did make me appreiciate the US.

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bill-o
From: assimilate on

On 21-Feb-2010, Carbon <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

> > Sure, it could be anyone. But, I still don't see the solution being
> > Universal Health Care.
>
> That's because you're an ideologue.

you keep using that word...I don't think it means what you think it means!
--Inigo Montoya

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bill-o