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[hatam_soferet]

Comment on the healthcare debate (which you may have noticed I have not been commenting on).

Quote from a random American, on why private health insurance is much better than a publically-funded system:

I just don't think it's right to have to subsidize other people's insurance.

What on earth do you think insurance is? It's a system of shared subsidisation based on an assessment of collective risk, but adding a nice whack for the shareholders. Zounds, but this foolishness wearies me.

This apropos of the US Right's recent effort to prove that publically-funded healthcare is Evil, by claiming that Steven Hawking wouldn't have lived to grace the world had he been born in the UK.

This is obviously stupid; what's additionally interesting is how it's a lovely example of the smouldering tissue of invented truths, lack of fact-checking, wild assumptions, and smoke blown out by stirring same, being presented as reasoned debate in this country.

Comments

[lavendersparkle]

Now I must go and fix all my typos.

[lavendersparkle]

I just don't think it's right to have to subsidize other people's insurance.

I think what they mean by this is that they don't want to subsidise the insurance of people who are poorer or sicker than themselves.

[hatam_soferet]

...but that it's entirely appropriate that richer people should be subsidising their own insurance. It boils down to whether they're hypocrites or just stupid. Sigh.

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[(Anonymous)]

thanks for doing this survey. the feaecdbk mostly fits with other surveys done in the opensource community, so nothing new here except the continuously reinforced feeling that we're not doing our best (and I'm talking mostly from the GNOME community camp here).so: we mostly know why and where we fail. now it would be a good time to understand how can we get better and make every opensource project follow in the footsteps of the success stories out there.

[(Anonymous)]

Up here in Canada, we are staying out of the debate, and it isn't getting much press either... except for a woman from south-western Ontario who has gone to bat for the private-insurance lobby in the USA, and is getting raked over the coals for it.

Jordan

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

Thought this might be up your alley.

[hatam_soferet]

Bang on :)

I still want a framed print of Someone Is Wrong On The Internet...

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[(Anonymous)]

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[(Anonymous)]

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[(Anonymous)]

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[(Anonymous)]

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