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Re:Why is America the 'no-vacation nation'? by vacri on Monday May 23, 2011 @10:54PM (#2578475)
The US and UK are both bad examples. Here in Aus we have universal healthcare and private - if you want to jump waiting lines or have carpet on the waiting room floor, pull out your wallet and go private.

There are a few problems, but there is no perfect health system as there is always more demand than supply.

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Re:Why is America the 'no-vacation nation'? by hessenwolf on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @05:26AM (#2579216)
Interestingly, on the European continent, carpet is considered a bit shit.
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Re:Why is America the 'no-vacation nation'? by waqf on Thursday May 26, 2011 @12:04AM (#2586561)
Your ideas intrigue me ... seriously, I'd like to know more about this. Which nationalities are you speaking for, and in which contexts? For example, I believe Americans think Brits are very odd for having fitted carpets in bathrooms.
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Re:Why is America the 'no-vacation nation'? by hessenwolf on Thursday May 26, 2011 @04:10AM (#2587014)
Mostly, I know that Italians think carpet is illogical and disgusting. It dropped heavily in fashion in the mid-nineties in Ireland, and now parquet and tile are close to God. Now I think of it, the last couple of German hotels I stayed in had some type of carpet; very industrial looking.

We Irish have for a long time tended to avoid carpet in bathrooms, but maybe we just don't piss as straight.

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Re:Why is America the 'no-vacation nation'? by pja on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @09:34AM (#2579711)
Um. The UK has universal healthcare (the NHS) and a parallel private system. I'm not sure why that make it a bad example in this context.

(Admittedly, the NHS is not the best health care system in the world, but then we spend less on it than other countries do as a proportion of GDP.)

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