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by cortic 10y ago
"Spending even more is whats unsustainable" - nationalized healthcare spends less for the same or better outcome, if your problem is price, then your problem is private healthcare. 'cost center' Vs 'profit center&#x
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by cortic 10y ago
"cost still is bigger than the money you can afford to put into it." - so spending even more would be super sustainable, so long as it enriches the wealthy shareholders? "you can never spend enough money on it" - i say
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by cortic 10y ago
Sorry about your problems, but you are a study of one, your experiences might be typical or atypical, flip a coin. On the other hand, you will likely have been on the receiving end of millions in advertising, and since your 'opinion&#x
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by cortic 10y ago
" [] systems also decide who to treat and for what" - in privately owned companies, this decision is made to maximize profits, in publicly owned companies this decision is made to please constituents. "The reason why the US s
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by cortic 10y ago
EU systems get much better outcomes for a fraction of the cost, and you think that's 'unsustainable'? 'lobbying' can be dealt with a either side of the pond, the only thing you are arguing for is making profit from
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by cortic 10y ago
I do question the morality of the US system, and the sustainability of inflated prices it creates. Its also important to remember that in for - profit healthcare, its operated as a profit center and thus has profit margins that are corporat
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by cortic 10y ago
Focusing on the US, serves the US.. But i guess it depends what kind of country you want to live in.
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by cortic 10y ago
"It's likely that time and space are both infinite, which would equate to infinite computational power. " - someone should tell Mojang that Minecraft brakes the universe lol. Its theoretically infinitely big, as it starts wit
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by cortic 10y ago
"AR more potential future states in which we don't exist" - This is covered in the simulation argument as a possible solution, it doesn't break the argument if its part of it. Edit; Thinking some more about his, it does
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by cortic 10y ago
Yes you are right, this is the exception. Although, thinking about it from the point of view of someone being Convicted of a crime that never happened is fair enough, But when someone is not convicted of a crime that never happened we are n
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by cortic 10y ago
I see what you are getting at, but it would still be; 60,000 = "oh well, some false negatives, some false negatives AND false positives, whatever" 30,000 = "oh well, some false negatives" Although i get the feeling we ar
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by cortic 10y ago
I've always been confused by this proposition; If there is an innocent person convicted of a crime, then there also has to be a guilty person that has gone free.. so it seems the ultimatum has to be "are we are willing to let a g
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by cortic 10y ago
There is a difference between regular mandated services and waking up one morning to find they have replaced my much loved (and customized) Mercedes with a bloody Skoda.