[ExI] What Makes People Vote Republican

[Damien Broderick]

At 04:23 PM 9/20/2008 +1000, Dr. Stathis wrote:

>You're relatively speaking better off if you have a serious illness in
>the public hospital system in Australia. I have seen plenty of people
>arriving in an ambulance from a private hospital either because the
>hospital can't provide the sort of treatment they need or because the
>hospital is worried that their insurance will run out. I know people
>working in the health care industry who have private health insurance
>but say that they would rather be in a public hospital if there were
>something seriously wrong with them.

But those don't work!  No, not those either.  Or those!  Look, they just
don't work, okay?  They may work in practice but they don't work in
theory!

[The Other Damien]