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Re: State of Economy Grounds for Price Controls on Gas and Diesel |
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Posted by Peter Rosa on Tue Jun 2 09:49:25 2009, in response to Re: State of Economy Grounds for Price Controls on Gas and Diesel, posted by AlM on Tue Jun 2 09:39:55 2009. My sister, a pediatrician, has seen studies of premature mortality due to poor medical care in the US and the UK (which isn't the same as Canada, but similar).The numbers are comparable. In the US, people without insurance may get no care at all and die prematurely, while those with insurance generally get very good (though expensive). In the UK, just about everyone gets so-so care, with a fair number of "disasters" resulting from serious conditions being overlooked until it's too late. So, if you have a middle class lifestyle with insurance, you're better off in the US. If you don't, you're better off in Canada or the UK. To oversimplify to a great extent, if you take five people at random, in the United States four of them will live to 90 and one will be finished at 60, while in Canada or Britain all five will live to 85. Deciding which system is better depends to some degree on one's risk aversion. My LIRR/NYCT blog |
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