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Re: free, huh, was Bitcoin confusion?

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From: J. Clarke
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 02:42
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On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 23:56:24 -0000 (UTC), John Levine
<jo...@taugh.com> wrote:

>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.

I was addressing your assertion of "better outcomes", not "lower
cost".

And what is with this obsession you have about drinking?  Are you an
abolitionist or something?
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