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Re: free, huh, was Bitcoin confusion?

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From: jmfbahciv
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 14:51
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John Levine 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.

The ones who are too sick to wait in line for the treatments to cure
them go to the US.

>
> There are a lot of places where economy of scale matters.

To compare US health costs to Europe's, you have to split the
US' up 50 ways but nobody does that when discussing this topic.

/BAH
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Subject: Re: free, huh, was Bitcoin confusion?
Date: 12 Feb 2018 14:51:06 GMT
Organization: "Have EDDT, will travel"
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