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Article #620363Re: free, huh, was Bitcoin confusion?
From: John Levine
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 21:49
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 21:49
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In article <1851622005.540076981.291...@news.eternal-september.org>, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>From what I understand they do a lot more bicycling than Mericans do. A lot >of people bike to work or shopping. I think Germans are more into outdoor >stuff like hiking than we are. In the US, guns are a significant cause of >injuries and death. They may cycle more, but French and Germans drink about 12 litres of alcohol per year, Americans drink 9. >In my opinion economies of scale don't really apply to health care, since >it's a "craft" business, like education. They sure do when you're negotiating drug prices. Everywhere but the US there are drug price caps, yet despite all the moaning and groaning the drug companies continue to sell in those countries and to be very profitable. > If the government really wants to improve medical care it would >subsidize medical and nursing schools to graduate more trained people. That would also affect prices. US doctors are paid about twice what doctors are other places for similar work. One excuse for that is that US doctors, at least in their early years, have education debt to pay down. R's, John -- Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
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