throwawy3589

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by throwawy3589 8y ago
As I stated in another post, their health care is subsidized massively by the US acting as a profit center to fund drug and medical technology development. The US produces a disproportionate amount of new drugs, other countries mostly creat
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by throwawy3589 8y ago
No, but having to provide health care to citizens in rural areas is expensive. Many elderly citizens wouldn't be able to travel to large cities to get the health care their taxes paid for. This is an issue that's largely non-exist
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by throwawy3589 8y ago
around 80% of Canada's population lives within 100 miles of the US boarder. Canada's density is skewed by northern land with nobody living there. https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-2c86ad127d43c7e1f9a62d...
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by throwawy3589 8y ago
Idealists like you are why 100 million+ died due to communism in the 20th century. We've gone from borderline stone-age medical treatment where basic surgery was impossible and simple infections untreatable to where we are today in les
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by throwawy3589 8y ago
The funding for universal health care would have to come from somewhere, probably higher taxes. So instead of being invested, the money would be stuffed into an inefficient system. There's also the matter of scale, US system would be f
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by throwawy3589 8y ago
This is why I don't support universal health care. Health care is expensive because of basic supply and demand, everybody needs health care and doctors and drugs are expensive to train/develop. Government regulation can't jus
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by throwawy3589 8y ago
People throwing up emotional drivel while doing nothing to refute a point is one the least appealing aspects of hacker news Please explain to me how humans are immune to natural selection and then go claim your nobel prize for revolutionizi
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by throwawy3589 8y ago
What I find even stranger is pro-science progressives essentially denying evolution to support their blank slate social policies. We can see that environment can have significant effects on animals in just a few decades, why would humans be
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by throwawy3589 8y ago
>Having worked outside the software world, I absolutely do not believe that software people are any smarter, on average, than anyone else The average CS major has an IQ of around 125[1], meaning the average software engineer is somewhere
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by throwawy3589 8y ago
>There are people who don't realize the F-35 program is used as a front to funnel money to skunkworks projects The fact you even know the F-35 exists should tell you it's a meme plane we're bullying our allies into buying