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Re: free, huh, was Bitcoin confusion?

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From: John Levine
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 23:56
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In article <kik18dli0moaba0rs...@4ax.com> you write:
>On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 21:43:14 -0000 (UTC), John Levine
><jo...@taugh.com> wrote:
>
>>In article <el718d5tr979j00m8...@4ax.com>,
>>J. Clarke  <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>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.
>>
>>Nope.
>
>On what basis do you make that assertion?

Nothing exotic, just spending more than zero time looking at actual
analyses of health care costs.  Feel free to do your own googling.

If you really believe that Americans are so fat and so sick and so
drunk that it explains away the factor of two cost difference compared
to every other industrialized country, I doubt that any amount of
facts will change your mind.

-- 
Regards,
John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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Subject: Re: free, huh, was Bitcoin confusion?
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