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Re:Flash Game Simulates Living on $9/hr. by pyre on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @09:31PM (#3073736) 

  > There was no dialysis.
Read up on the dialysis situation in the US before pimping it as progress in medicine.
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Re:Flash Game Simulates Living on $9/hr. by philwelch on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @02:27AM (#3074495)
I'm no expert on dialysis, but ff we would be so much better off without dialysis even existing, then presumably no one, nowhere has legitimate reason to use it. Unfortunately, I think untreated kidney failure might be worse. Many medical treatments are not so much "good" as "better than death"--many cancer treatments, for instances, take the tactic of slowly killing the patient in such a way that the cancer dies faster than the healthy tissue.
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Re:Flash Game Simulates Living on $9/hr. by pyre on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @05:40AM (#3074927) 

  > we would be so much better off without dialysis
  > even existing
I never said that. I was referring to this:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2010/12/-8220-god-...

Just saying that it's not all peaches and cream.

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Re:Flash Game Simulates Living on $9/hr. by philwelch on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @05:15PM (#3077640)
I really don't see what that has to do with my argument.
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