Re: Why no Opera?
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:13:06 -0500, Harry Penner <hpenner@gmail.com> said:
> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 11:07:47AM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote:
>>
>>> If it's higher-quality, how do the Canadian companies who broker
>>> access to American doctors for Canadians tired of their crappy care
>>> manage to make a profit?
>>>
>> Because some people with a lot of money and no patience will pay for
>> anything.
>>
>>
> In other words, the people who have a choice whether to accept the
> quality and wait times associated with health care in the government
> system, don't. That doesn't make you pause to think, even a tiny bit?
I do not think that logically follows. There are people who pay
$1.3 million a year to park a large jet close to their office. Should
it make me think that the service provider providing this service for a
profit is a good business model for my neighbor parking lot? Or that if
such service provider spriung up in my town, all of us who would like
to have a faster commute would just spring up and start payin $1.3 mil
a year to part our $4000mil jets?
> If you can't let go of that nutty socialism-is-good-for-the-people
> meme, try thinking of it this way instead:
> government monopoly on health care = microsoft/your goliath of choice
> free market health care = open source
> ...and now we can all feel good about discussing politics on
> debian-curiosa. ;)
Discussing illogical exptrapolations relted vaguely to politics
in curiosa.
manoj
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Never call a man a fool; borrow from him.
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/>
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