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[Kuros]

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Yeah.

Anyway, I was just pointing out that while I may have been having some fun on the internet taking a contrarian view, you basically come across as one of the pompous people I have had to listen to in my own years of law school. Even the professors didn't like these people and wish they would go away. I know, as some of these law professors are my drinking buddies.

Pomposity is a mask, Kuros. Don't be that guy.

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this isn't a bad discussion.

America's system is a very mixed bag. I know someone who was laid off from a corporate job last year and lost her insurance. She was/is being diagnosed with liver cancer. Her husband is a doctor, but even his insurance and income make the normal course of treatment completely unaffordable.

But innovation is a HUGE part of the American system. The free enterprise/profit model creates many of the new treatments and drugs that the world uses. The other side of the coin is, that more than a third of the 'expense' of new pills of any type can be attributed to advertising, rather than any R&A, production costs.

The number of people with no healthcare in America is simply too large. The access is a mixed bag. So is the quality of care, because HMOs have been demonstrated to time and again have profit ranked above 'service'.

The idea that the free market is the best regulator just isn't true. It's the best innovator, no doubt there, but the market needs regulation itself. A regulated free market is fine, but we're talking about such a massive reform that the entire basis of the system would have to be gutted.

Korea's system isn't that bad, with X covered for everyone, with additional costs being left to the patient or private/supplementary insurance.

Canada's system isn't bad, and would be a lot better if a more darwinist attitude were adopted, by forcing the cost of things like smoking related illness, drunk driving etc on to the smokers and drunk drivers. Same goes for the obese. If people who were, say, 25% or more above their ideal weight, then any illness that arose due to that wouldn't be covered. That might provide motivation for people to quit smoking and lose weight, as well as reduce healthcare costs.

The French system is quite good.

I've researched a fair amount of this and I could go on and on, but I'll stop there.

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