[geeks] nVidia 8800GT for Apple Mac Pro

[Mike Meredith]

On Thu, 22 May 2008 11:43:12 -0400, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> That's not a valid comparison.

No it's perfectly valid. It's just standard supply and demand; in a
monetised health-care system you use ability to pay to "ration" limited
health-care resources. In a socialised health care system other means
are used to ration limited resources.

A monetised health-care system may be better at increasing those
limited resources, but it's also better at producing "unnecessary"
profits. Many people find the thought of people profiting from
ill-health distasteful.

And most socialised health care systems manage to obtain enough
resources to operate a reasonable health-care system.

You prefer a monetised health-care system ? Fine as long as you don't
insist that my country must switch. Just don't claim it isn't rationed.

> That's why people in socialized medicine countries often travel to
> non- socialized medicine countries to get medical care.

Really? Funnily enough, moving people to places where certain
procedures are available quicker (or available at all) is to some
extent included in my country's socialised health-care system. And
nobody here has to travel outside this country to get into the
monetised health care.

My father used to have private health insurance through his job with
IBM. He's frequently made use of health care systems in his life and
often decided to use the socialised health care for the simple reason
it was 'good enough' and his private health insurance would thank him
financially for not making use of their facilities.

> I met a guy in the local hospital years ago who was from Canada.

And of course you spent a similar amount of time hanging around
Canadian hospitals to make sure US citizens weren't making similar use
of Canadian hospitals ?


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