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Re:Cost of Employer-Provided Health Insurance Rises Toward $... by dv_dt on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @10:49PM (#15290396)
I think if the healthcare and education cost situation gets much worse, there's going to be a big drain of people who have the means to move to more civilized societies. Or maybe thats just a personal bias because that's what I keep edging closer to in contemplation. Tech salaries are better in the US than say Europe, but if that all taken out by healthcare, while adding all sorts of bankruptcy risk and poor standards of care then there's little point gambling.
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Re:Cost of Employer-Provided Health Insurance Rises Toward $... by danjayh on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @11:01PM (#15290450)
Not trying to be snarky - serious question: if you feel that way, what's stopping you? I've often contemplated what I would do if the US leans further left, and sadly, there aren't a lot of other places to go where I can have guns, freedom of speech (although in a lot of places people have been protesting against that lately, because they believe it should only apply to speech that's not horrible), and a private-business dominated economy. Looking in the other direction, there are a ton of places where you can get super-tight gun laws, a huge welfare state, and a government dominated economy ... so why not pick one and go?
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Re:Cost of Employer-Provided Health Insurance Rises Toward $... by dv_dt on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @11:51PM (#15290677)
Gun laws? Who said anything about gun laws. I actually think we should take a much different approach than silly bans, like maybe geographic analysis of dealer sales vs permits/ownership records to identify illegal sales.

I'm talking financial analysis and quality of life.

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