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Re:How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life by refurb on Friday February 02, 2018 @02:51PM (#16293674)
Economic success is why you're not dying of some random disease in a cave and instead typing on a computer that is a part of a worldwide network.

Without economics you can't pay for all the fancy stuff!

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Re:How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life by Voloskaya on Friday February 02, 2018 @03:04PM (#16293768)
You don't understand what I am saying.

In countries with free healthcare, if you only take the department of health budget in isolation it's of course not going to be an "economic success", and I'm just saying that's ok, we shouldn't expect it to be.

Should we expect our armies to be economically successful as well?

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Re:How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life by refurb on Friday February 02, 2018 @03:51PM (#16294112)
Working in healthcare, economic success is much broader than making a profit. Looking at long term cost effectiveness is very common, so I would argue you could say that health care is an economic success.
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