[geeks] Socialized medicine [was Re: nVidia 8800GT for Apple Mac Pro]

[der Mouse]

>> It really seems to me that you have serious problems with the
>> proposed and attempted partially-socialized-medicine systems in the
>> USA, but I don't see any particular way what you've said supports
>> the thesis that socialized medicine is an inherently flawed concept.
> Worked really well for the Soviet Union and all its member states,
> right?

I don't know, actually; I have no real idea what medical care was like
in the Soviet Union.

As for the rest of your points - you seem to have shifted from
attacking socialized medicine to attacking socialism/communism as a
form of government.  Perhaps you've run out of arguments against
socialized medicine and hope nobody will notice the shift?

To address a couple of the lowest-hanging fruit,

> How long it will take Canada, I don't know.  Perhps it will become a
> sharia-law theocracy first.

Unlikely anytime soon; our Moslem population is too small a minority,
and the Canadian temperment is not suited to it.  I'm much more worried
about the USA turning fundie-"Christian".

> Canada is only still functioning because they have massive natural
> resources in relation to the number of people living there -

That must be why Denmark is such a failure, then: too many people for
the land and no particular natural resources to prop them up.  Oh, and
that nasty socialized medicine, too.

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