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This seems rather off topic.

• IsaacSchlueter 17y ago
  From the guidelines: On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. As a hacker and nerd, I'm acutely fascinated by unintended consequences that arise in complex mathematical systems. My interests in economics and programming stem from this fascination. The article isn't saying "we should do health care like ze germans cuz they got it rite hurrrr". It's saying, "Hey, look at this interesting effect of their policies, which everyone in the debate in the US seems to completely miss." That being said, I don't want HN to be a source of American health care debates any more than you probably do. I'm bored by the pedantics of it all, and I actually live here. I saw your comment had been downmodded, and I clicked the ^ to bump it back up. It's an edge-case, and not fair imo that you should lose karma over expressing that opinion. However, if you really feel it's off-topic, you should probably flag it instead of posting a one-liner complaint.
  • danw 17y ago
    I'm more concerned that this is a single anecdote. If it was an explanation of the fascinating government subsidized insurance model that the german health care system uses I would approve.
• pragmatic 17y ago
  I disagree. The major consideration for staying at my current job is the health insurance benefits. I carry the health insurance for my family. So it's a large expense that I must consider when starting up my company.