Re: Why no Opera?
Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>:
> On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 16:13 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 01:11:26PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > >
> > > While I accept our users do things like run non-free software, I
> > > do not see this as beig beneficial to our users -- but then, I don't
> > > try to hinder people eating artery hardening fast food either, despite
> > > what impact it has on the services my medical facility can provide to
> > > me after the expenses of all the heart attack patients they get.
> > >
> >
> > Of course, one way to fix that is to get rid of the ridiculous notion
> > that it is the government's responsibility to pay for everyone's medical
> > care all the time. Make the users pay for their own medical services.
>
> Yes, and if they cannot pay, let them die. It serves them right for
> being poor.
Socialized medicine is destroying medical care. The
"clients/patients" don't have to care what it costs because "the
system" pays for it. "The system" is terrified of pee-ing off voters,
so they pay whatever "the caregiver" says it costs. The caregivers
don't care what it costs, because the clients and "the system" pay
whatever the caregivers says it costs.
Consequently, caregivers are the least cost conscious consumers on the
planet, since all costs are "externalized" to patients and
bureaucrats ("the system").
Brillant[sic]. Think eight bucks for a one dollar spray bottle, or
forty bucks for a tiny bag of plastic wedges produced by a machine, or
fifty bucks for a pair of scissors. What an excellent racket to be in!
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