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Fair enough, but I don't think we should ship of the emergency rooms and proton cannons to Poland. The stuff you'd do over there would likely be non-emergency stuff which didn't have very high capital costs. I guess.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Tue May 26th, 2009 at 09:10:10 AM EST
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That depends rather heavily on how you structure the incentives. Details are hellishly important on issues like this (but then, they always are).

My fear is that the people who make the rules will be from the part of the system that think in terms of international trade, rather than the parts of the system that think in terms of health care quality and social policy. Because, on the record, the international trade types seem to neither know nor care when their ideology imposes some regulation that is not technology- or public/private neutral.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Tue May 26th, 2009 at 09:26:49 AM EST
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