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by syki 5y ago
My response was about the claim that OP is a health economist while not understanding where the bottleneck in the supply for doctors comes from. I believe you are incorrect as it pertains to doctor salaries. Demand is high and supply rela
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by syki 5y ago
I have a hard time rectifying the claim that you are a health economist with the fact that you don’t appear to understand that the bottleneck for increasing the supply of doctors is the number of residency slots. Foreign medical school cer
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by syki 5y ago
When you side with the devil expect to get burned. Total war sucks and one should be careful siding with the perpetrators.
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by syki 5y ago
Nuclear war is more unsafe than releasing a corona virus and yet it is a possibility. Releasing corona virus is not as bad as a nuclear strike. Where does it land in terms of how to respond. There is no threat of China invading the U.S.
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by syki 5y ago
Regardless of whether or the corona virus was a lab leak several things are certain. A moderately lethal virus that is highly transmissible can be created in a lab and those nations with this capability now know what the effect of releasin
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by syki 5y ago
The radius of the circle doesn’t come into play. This is because instead of enlarging the circle, as you say, what one does is narrow in on smaller and smaller sections of the circle. Given any circle one can narrow in on a small enough pi
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by syki 5y ago
This isn’t true in the sense the article is talking about. There are nowhere near enough American forces ready for a strike into Mexico. Supplies and whatnot haven’t been stockpiled for an invasion of Mexico and the probability that Russi
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by syki 5y ago
I have a simplistic view of such things: follow the money. Does Goldman Sachs really feel that Clinton speeches are worth the tens of millions they have paid for them? The reasonable explanation in my mind is that it is a quid pro quo. Pe
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by syki 5y ago
I read the /r/badeconomics post. I don’t see how this is debunking the idea that repealing Glass-Steagall was a bad thing. No second order effects of that repeal are discussed and so I get the impression that this is a superfici
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by syki 5y ago
The U.S. is in a state of prolonged imperial decline. The joint statement makes sense to me. Russia’s economy and population have declined. They perceive competition with NATO. China is clearly on the rise and they wish to take control
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by syki 5y ago
When buying a house people consider how much the monthly rent is. They don’t care how much interest they pay over the life of the loan. Everyone (except those off the grid so to speak) pays a monthly rate to live in a dwelling. The minds
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by syki 5y ago
Yes reality won’t care but some of the people who live with the fact that we aren’t ready to live in an era of cheap, easy disinformation do care. Saying “reality is what it is” doesn’t help.
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by syki 5y ago
The waters can be muddied when it comes to perception of reality. This is particularly true when it comes to reading about areas we are not experts in. Take your last example that sqrt(9) = 3. If one takes a different branch of “square ro
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by syki 5y ago
Police, most roads, and certain aspects of the legal system are free at the point of usage. It’s bad to have for profit police, court system, and Air Force. Some things ought not be profit driven. It’s quite disconcerting that someone se
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by syki 5y ago
The analogy is apt since it was an example of the idea that some people, thankfully, are aware that some services should not have their availability based on ability to pay at the point of usage. In the U.S. system denials of care by insur
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by syki 5y ago
In Canada private health clinics can not legally provide care that is covered by the Canada Health Act. EDIT: After further reading it appears that private health care is a murky area in some provinces. My above stated belief appears to b
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by syki 5y ago
Of course healthcare isn’t and can’t be free. Unless by free you mean free at the point of usage. I support government provided healthcare and government runs off of tax revenue. Denying a person cancer treatment for no other reason than
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by syki 5y ago
In all healthcare systems some form of rationing occurs since there aren’t enough resources to provide the best care to everyone. A system that rations care based on ability to pay or on wether or not your employer is generous is immoral.
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by syki 5y ago
I believe secession is what is needed. I no longer want to subsidize states with policies I vehemently oppose.
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by syki 5y ago
The real polarization occurred when Bush Sr. made a deal with Democrats to raise taxes and cut spending. That was the last time there was significant bipartisanship on domestic policy. When Clinton ran he went to the right because liberal
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by syki 5y ago
If a person’s risk tolerance on something is out of whack of what almost everyone else is comfortable with then there is a problem with that position. At least as it pertains to public policy. I’ll rephrase and say that I hope OP is not i
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by syki 5y ago
You are ok with a bridge collapse every 10 years? Do you understand how rare bridge collapses are today and that this would be a massive increase in the rate of failure?
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by syki 5y ago
The population of metro area Pittsburgh has declined in the last 20 years and is over 100,000 people less than it was in 1970 [1]. Pittsburgh’s population today is 10% less than it was in 2000 and is considerably smaller than it was at its
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by syki 5y ago
...but life quality measured in every day quality ... Do not get me started on that. It's so difficult to get Americans to grasp that this could be true. Most simply won't contemplate that it could be true. It does not occur t
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by syki 5y ago
Around the time of our invasion of Iraq the South Korean President of Korea criticized the Bush administration’s fixation with Iraq. A day or so later Rumsfeld announced that the U.S. would withdraw from South Korea in the coming years. T
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by syki 5y ago
I lived in Kreuzburg when it began gentrifying. I lived near the Kotti. I liked the area and have a love/hate relationship with Berlin. May Day in Kreuzburg was interesting. I got an appointment to see a dermatologist in Berlin in
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by syki 5y ago
Talk about generalizing things! You know very little about me and my little joke with using “shit hole” country is hardly a problem the country faces or is in any way perpetuating partisan divides. It’s ok to call out hypocrisy when one s
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by syki 5y ago
We recently had a President talk about “shit hole” countries. Roughly one half of the U.S. cheered or at a minimum were passive about such a comment. I use the term “shit hole” country to refer to the U.S. partially as a joke to see Trump
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by syki 5y ago
I’ve lived in Florida, Kansas, Minnesota, and Indiana and visited over 40 states. Except in a few places my experience is that most people don’t live within walking distance of a car. Well, let me be more precise. Those who do live withi
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by syki 5y ago
I grew up in an American colony; the Canal Zone. We had our own schools and were taught U.S. curriculum and about the U.S. I was a rabid nationalist. I had never lived in the U.S. until I went to college but had visited it. Ever since c

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