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Europe is doomed! Special Decline and Defeatism edition | 26 comments (26 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Aristocrats condemning feckless peasants... (none / 1)

Affordability is defined by what people are willing to pay. There is no such thing as a health care system that is "unaffordable."

by paving on Mon Dec 14th, 2009 at 03:06:20 PM EST
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Re: Aristocrats condemning feckless peasants... (none / 1)

Err. I thought affordability is defined by what people are Able to pay, no.

Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! (Martin Luther King)

by ValentinD (walentijn arobase free spot frança) on Mon Dec 14th, 2009 at 06:14:27 PM EST
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Re: Aristocrats condemning feckless peasants... (4.00 / 6)

All healthcare systems are too expensive until you actually need the treatment yourself...

notes from no w here

by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Tue Dec 15th, 2009 at 07:00:41 AM EST
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Re: Aristocrats condemning feckless peasants... (none / 1)

Quite so.
Until you actually need the treatment yourself...
...and your community hospital doesn't have that hyper expensive piece of equipment critical for your operation. Nor your town the money to buy it. Nor your fellow neighbours the coins - or the will - to pay more tax.

Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! (Martin Luther King)

by ValentinD (walentijn arobase free spot frança) on Tue Dec 15th, 2009 at 03:32:18 PM EST
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