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

[Mike Meredith]

On Fri, 23 May 2008 00:01:40 -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> Worked really well for the Soviet Union and all its member states,
> right?
> 
> And we all know that Cubans have the VERY highest life expectancy of 
> all, right?
> 
> No offense, but the reality is that socialism is a failure.  It took
> the USSR 70 years to collapse.

Given that you don't seem to be able to tell the difference between
Lenin's brand of communism[0] and socialism, I think I'll take your
predictions with a pinch of salt. 

Life expectancy isn't a great way of comparing health care,
but as you brought it up anyway. Whatever else the Cubans are doing
wrong, their health care system seems to be doing ok ... fewer infant
deaths than the US and the life expectancy is pretty good. "males have
a life expectancy at birth of 75 years and females 79 years. In
comparison, the US life expectancy at birth is 75 and 80 years for
males and female" - Wikipedia (with WHO figures). 

There are plenty of European countries that periodically have socialism
governments and they all seem to be doing ok. 

0: Lenin's 'soviet of soviets' was sprung on the communists as a bit of
coup after the bolsheviks (a minority group) took over. Most
non-stalinist/leninist communists and anarchists don't regard the USSR
as a communist state; simply a dictatorship.

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Mike Meredith (http://zonky.org/)
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