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On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 17:31:58 -0000 (UTC), John Levine
<jo...@taugh.com> wrote:

>In article <PM000564F...@aca4281c.ipt.aol.com>,
>jmfbahciv  <See....@aol.com> wrote:
>>"Free" means that the recipients have an infinite resource which
>>causes no restrainst in the consumption of that resource.
>
>Nonetheless, all over Europe and even in Canada people get health care
>for free, no payment at all at point of service, and they are
>healthier than Americans and the overall cost is about 1/2 of ours.

Maybe the cost is 1/2 of ours because the populations they treat are
healthier.

There is this unstated implication that "they are healthier because
the medical treatment system is better".  The notion that "they are
healthier because their lifestyle is different" never gets considered.
People just assume that the average American's daily activities are
identical to those of the average Frenchman or German or Englishman or
Swede.  But I have never seen research that shows that this is the
case.

Then there's the matter of whether the statistics are identical.
People at this point generally say that "the UN defines blah blah
blah", but does the average doctor give a crap about how the UN
defines it when he is filling out reports?  He's more concerned with
the insurance company and the malpractice lawyers, both of whom affect
his life directly.