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by sykh 8y ago
I grew up in the Canal Zone and spent a lot of time in Berlin. It was valuable to me. Gave me perspectives I wouldn’t otherwise have. There are downsides. Coming to the U.S. from the Canal Zone took a lot of getting used to. Going in t
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by sykh 8y ago
I use iCloud for storage. It’s worked great for me. I’ve never had a problem with it. It wasn’t eye opening to me that the author doesn’t use iCloud.
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But they could collect data and presumably profit more. If they did collect more data and profited from this data collection would they really lose enough customers to offset this increase in profit? It seems to me they wouldn’t. I think t
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by sykh 8y ago
The personal thing is what a person perceives as truth. Everyone has a set of beliefs that they consider true. The set isn’t the same for everyone. Isn’t it the case then that truth, at least some portion of it, is person dependent?
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by sykh 8y ago
The eye opening part was how little data there was and the hoops needed to verify the recipient. This is in comparison to Google and Facebook. Both have orders of magnitude more data and sent the data with, apparently, little verification
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How is that distinguishable from truth from the perspective of the one who holds said belief?
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by sykh 8y ago
I for instance believe that 1+1=2 under the first order Peano axioms of arithmetic. This belief of mine is so strong that it would be imposssible to convince me otherwise. This is a truth for me (and for every other sufficiently educated
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by sykh 8y ago
I have a slightly different take than you. Suppose you believe A to be true. Furthermore suppose no evidence could be presented that would convince you that A is not true. For you then, isn’t it the case that A is indeed true? It may no
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by sykh 8y ago
I see that in the parable of the farm workers you would be the one hired at the beginning of the day.
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by sykh 8y ago
As the good book says, "For the love of money is the root of all evil". I'm not posturing. I actually do have a moral code that I try to abide by. The fact that all other wealthy nations provide what is colloquially called
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by sykh 8y ago
How can it both be unprofitable to treat people near the end of their lives yet also wipe out a lifetime of savings? It's unprofitable for an insurance company to insure someone near death and still provide a decent level of services
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by sykh 8y ago
Nice false dichotomy you have there. There are other possibilities than the status quo or doctors getting piddling wages.
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by sykh 8y ago
Thank you for exemplifying the attitude I decried. I wish people like would leave the U.S. Live elsewhere. Escape the burden of possibly having your tax dollars help someone else by emigrating.
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by sykh 8y ago
I feel sorry for you that you think this way. There’s a reason Medicare came into being. It simply isn’t profitable to treat people near the end of their lives. One illness, calamity is enough to wipe out a lifetime of savings and leave
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by sykh 8y ago
You asserted an explanation for something. I showed that your assertion was not logically supported by your statements.
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In the absence of Medicare/Medicaid there would not be universal coverage for the elderly. The elderly do not advocate dismantling this coverage. The coverage is a government program. We are in agreement that a U.S. government progr
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by sykh 8y ago
Isn’t this part of being a member of a society? Sometimes laws and goals of society don’t align with yours. So advocate for your goals and participate in society. Sometimes one decides to leave the country because the misalignment of goal
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by sykh 8y ago
That, even if true, does not support your argument. You need to show that the inefficiency in a universal care system in a country as large as the U.S is greater than the current system that we have. The evidence is that this is not true.
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Never said otherwise. I made the statement in response to the view that government run necessarily means inefficient. Clearly the converse is true. There are lots of examples.
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It’s foolish to believe that private enterprise is always more efficient than a government run program and it’s foolish to think that government is always more efficient. One should not live in a world of such extremes. Sometimes governmen
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by sykh 8y ago
The rationing can be in a moral way or in an immoral way. All systems ration care. Most do so in a much more morally palatable way than the U.S.
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by sykh 8y ago
Private entities contract with Medicare to provide insurance that covers what Medicare covers (and perhaps more). Would said insurers cover everyone that Medicare covers in the absence of Medicare? The answer is no. How many of these peop
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by sykh 8y ago
Excellent. We are in agreement that the American government can and does provide a health insurance program that covers lots of people and has the property that people don’t seek to leave it. Perhaps the idea that everyone be covered in su
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by sykh 8y ago
Your first paragraph is false and indeed can not be true in any system that rations care. All health care systems ration care since no soceity has enough resources to cover and pay for all possible needed health services. Here resources i
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by sykh 8y ago
The services could be worse but aren’t necessarily worse. It’s foolish to think that any government service is worse than a private one. Also, universal healthcare doesn’t necessarily mean government run.
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by sykh 8y ago
The idea of universal care is that everyone have insurance. Before Obamacare my sister got cancer. She wasn’t lucky enough to have an employer nice enough to provide insurance through her job. Even people with insurance often times face
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by sykh 8y ago
Our spending on healthcare is grossly and immorally inefficient. A change is needed. One reason for the ineffiency is that public welfare is subordinate to special interests. All universal healthcare systems in the world are cheaper on a
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by sykh 8y ago
The people on TRICARE don’t seek to leave the system, do they? That’s a government run healthcare system. Do Medicare recipients seek to leave it? That’s a government run healthcare system. Universal healthcare can be implemented poorly b
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by sykh 8y ago
It is a well known fact that all medical care systems ration care. A person in America who gets cancer, say, often times faces bankrupt and financial ruin. The same can not be said of people in other wealthy nations. I fail to see your po
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by sykh 8y ago
When a person gets a life threatening disease they ought not worry about whether or not their treatment will leave their family in penury. This is especially so in a nation as wealthy as the U.S. The American healthcare system is immoral

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