Re:For Her Head Cold, Insurer Coughed Up $25,865
by jacquesm on Monday December 23, 2019 @02:49PM
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> Europe spent decades in economic doldrums
Is that so? By whose standards? Europe is doing fine across the board. There are fewer billionaires but at the same time we don't have medically induced bankruptcies.
> We don’t need to socialize insurance or healthcare services to have a workable system.
You probably do. Simply because disease is distributed randomly (or actually: worse than randomly), unlike wealth.
I could see the case for Blair being a reformer and pushing an agenda of liberalization, much less so for Merkel and Thatcher left the UK in much worse state than she found it even though somewhere in the middle of her rein things were marginally better.
Is that so? By whose standards? Europe is doing fine across the board. There are fewer billionaires but at the same time we don't have medically induced bankruptcies.
> We don’t need to socialize insurance or healthcare services to have a workable system.
You probably do. Simply because disease is distributed randomly (or actually: worse than randomly), unlike wealth.
I could see the case for Blair being a reformer and pushing an agenda of liberalization, much less so for Merkel and Thatcher left the UK in much worse state than she found it even though somewhere in the middle of her rein things were marginally better.