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Re:Marc Andreessen interview by bryanrasmussen on Sunday June 14, 2020 @12:38PM (#23519088)
the question was not why are there different policies in different cultures, the question was why would universal health care not work because of diversity of the population.

I suppose that universal health care will work for diverse populations because once that is introduced to the population the benefit should be clear, and that really the only thing that should be required for universal health care to work for diverse populations is that they be human - hence my reference to mortality.

I believed this chain of thought would be clear, unfortunately I was mistaken.

Re:Marc Andreessen interview by luckylion on Sunday June 14, 2020 @12:41PM (#23519113)
"Everybody wants to live" is one side. I'm certain there's no issue there. "Everybody wants to pay for the system the same way" is another. I assure you, there are issues here.

Do you see how it might be a thing that different cultures approach differently?

Re:Marc Andreessen interview by bryanrasmussen on Sunday June 14, 2020 @01:08PM (#23519366)
So it's not that delivery of the service would not scale, or that delivery of the service would somehow be impossible because of diversity in the population, but that a diverse population does not want to pay for the service?

Is this perhaps some sort of code for people of one ethnicity do not want to pay for people of another ethnicity? That seems to argue that because a political strategy of fostering ethnic hatred worked to shut down social programs then social programs do not work because different ethnic groups hate each other. Which is sort of like me saying because I scored a goal in the game you can see how trying to keep me from scoring goals is not going to work - might as well go home now and leave me the trophy.

Re:Marc Andreessen interview by chrisco255 on Sunday June 14, 2020 @03:06PM (#23520374)
In the U.S. if you are poor, you are eligible for free healthcare via Medicaid: https://www.medicaid.gov/

I'm not sure where this tangent is going, but in U.S. many of us feel like total federal government control of healthcare would lead to bad outcomes in the long run, whether that's from deteriorating investment in new technology or through lack of local accountability or through rationing and extended wait times.

Americans are nothing if not impatient. The wait times I hear of for even routine surgeries like tonsil removal in Israel and UK blow my mind, as an American. I would not expect to wait more than a week or two for something like that in the U.S. but have heard it can take a year or more to get an appointment in those countries.

Re:Marc Andreessen interview by take_a_breath on Sunday June 14, 2020 @12:58PM (#23519280)
Seems to work pretty well for Medicare.