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Never said there would be, but non-profit doesn't mean there aren't large amounts of money being consumed and even pocketed by, say, administrators.


I'm not crazy about insurance companies being involved in everything, but it's no worse, may even be better, than gov-controlled. It's not like these universal systems aren't in trouble.

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Thanks for the document.

Can you show me where I said there should or shouldn't be a profit motive?

My reply was to point out your error that Europe doesn't have for-profit hospitals. They do.

You see, jon, I believe real effective solutions have a better chance of being devised when they are based in as much reality and precision as possible.

This whole for-profit/non-profit thing is misleading, just because something is "non-profit" doesn't mean it doesn't consume vast amounts of resources , which, in turn, effects to quantity, quality, and development of care.

The gial is quality if care for thise who need it. The question is how to best provide that.

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My original reply was to your "fact"


By efficiency I mean how well resources are allocated to provide the most effective care for a person in need of healthcare.


Please refer to the first quote of yours listed above.

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@jon357

You should you look closer at the data. It doesn't appear to agree with your opinion, other than possibly the UK general hospital thing. The trend is private and for-profit health care is growing in Europe, and it seems the cause is the public sector is over-burdened. Hence, why it would be interesting see a study of efficiencies between the different types of systems.

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There are for-profit hospitals in Europe and the numbers are growing. Some EU countries even have a greater percentage of for-profit hospitals than the US--I believe one quarter of hospital beds in France are in for-profit hospitals--in the US, I think it's around 20%. The UK has for-profit hospitals, as well.

I pass a private for-profit hospital in Poznan everytime I travel from the airport to the in-laws house.

It would be interesting to see a study that measured the efficiency of different types of hospitals.

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Totally different throwing motion and mechanics, which makes how decent he threw it impressive. I bet he's a natural athlete.

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Prince William is a natural Am footballer. Needs a some adjustments to his technique, but pretty impressive for a Euro.

espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/41809795/prince-william-american-football-louis-rees-zammit

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I'll have to email that to her! Although instead of knitting she'd be gardening. You should see the design of her front yard.


Yes they are! I keep laughing at Crow. I mean, that is what I expect him to look like!! Hahaha!!

Paulina's is hilarious.


I thought it was more black hair than brown. Learn something new everyday. 🙂

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Yes and I pretty much completely gutted half my house from ceiling to floor.

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@pawian

You might need to work on your judgment, Pawian. It's so obvious we are.

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Never worked in customs, but I know two guys who did. After a year they both started questioning their career choice.

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Doesn't he look a little like Dwight Schrute from the Office?


...are super cool.

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Freaking hilarious! I like how I'm fiercely rocking out on a Polish street.

I bet that actually is Atch.


I may have wet myself from uncontrollable laughter.


Brilliant!

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Does it protect the wood from minor scratches and gouges?

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Well, I know what I'm having for lunch now.

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I'll send you a picture when I'm finished-and only God knows when that will be.

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That's not the logic though. It's not a matter of challenge, but a matter of engagement. You mention knowing literary and historical allusions, what such allusions are there in the Red Circles? I can see the Lepanto, but what about the Red Circles? TS Eliot said to fully understand his poetry you needed to read and experienced everything he has read and experienced. Who in the hell has done that? Yet, his very challenging work allows the consumer of his work to enter into it and engage it. I might not get every allusion but his art is open. The Red Circles isn't open, IMO, ergo it's esoteric. Repulsive is too strong of a word: unappealing, withdrawn are better.

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I agree with this. His work is much better in person than a image printed in some book or webpage. There's detail to discover when viewed in person.

The Lepanto thing looks not bad, but those red circles...looks like two year old graffiti. Unlike Pollock, no detail to discover. The red circle comes across as what I call esoteric statement art. The artists is making a statement but its so esoteric and self absorbed only the artist and a few others get the statement. There's an elitism in it that I find repulsive.

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I'm with you. I have at least a few dozen pieces of art like that in my house. They stored in a plastic bin where I keep all of the painting my kids did when they were two.

I'm redoing my kitchen--white walls--so let me remove you from the invite list. :D

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@Bobko
You are a very smart Bob.

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That was the plan at one time, but then I noticed practicing lawyers were always in a hurry to get back to their office to put in billable hours.

So, I was going to go into teaching instead, then a job in tax fell in my lap and seeing the differential in pay between that and teaching took me down a path in the utterly uninteresting world of tax (although cross border transactions have some interesting aspects). :D I do much less direct tax now and more analysis type of stuff.

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@Bobko

Well, it would depend on the amount of resources you allocate to the 25% as opposed to the 75%.

But, on an internet forum, it doesn't matter, because the real gold isn't in the 25% but the 75%, because it is in that 75% of disagreement there is more potential for mining a new deposit of gold which will generate much greater return than the already discovered point of agreement.

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I am not.

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The first two questions I was going to guess it was you, but the third has thrown me off.

More hints, please.

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19?

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Who are they?

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The honeymoon is over and Kommielala cannot answer substantive questions.

I've read some posters on here say that Trump is showing cognitive decline or is incoherent. It's not true. He gives at least one interview a day and he shows absolutely no signs of cognitive decline. He rambles and lacks polish, but he will offer substance--he just surrounds the substance with rambling. In contrast, Kommielala gives platitudes and no substance (plus the timbre of her voice and speech mannerisms grate on many)--and, that's probably why her campaign seems flat.


Yeah, it seems nothing they say about Trump hasn't already been said a thousand times. They can't seem to produce any more negative sentiment toward him, so all they can do is prop up Kommielala.


I don't see it that way--still could go the wrong way.

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@Ironside

Who are hypocrites?

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What about attacking thee enemy: Iran? It's coming...and it must, IMO.