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MeTa post:
Scary...
What is to account for it?
First of all, it's a for-profit system making an awful lot of profit.
So in other countries, people pay the cost of their healthcare. In the USA, people are paying whatever it takes to line shareholder pockets, and only a small part of that money is actually buying them any healthcare.
Secondly, it's a runaway system - as the price goes up, many people can't afford to pay, so they don't... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by -harlequin-
at 1:40 AM on September 10, 2007
MeTa post:
Rollover questions? $5 per question? Pony?
Not having a backup question reduces the quality (to other users) of my questions to askmeta - I have a lot of questions that I think other users would find fascinating as I do, but I never post them because I prefer to always have a question in reserve for those boring, mundane but time-critical "life-saver" questions. My life isn't broken, so I hardly ever have any live-saver questions, so the net result is that I post almost no questions, and the ones I do post tend to be crappy and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by -harlequin-
at 10:39 PM on June 29, 2007
