[ExI] Yet another health care debate

[Damien Broderick]

At 11:25 PM 9/23/2008 +1000, Stathis wrote:

>  the Australian
>system results in outcomes comparable to those in the US for half the
>cost, so it can't all be all that inefficient.

So what exactly is it that doubles the cost in USland? It can't 
*just* be those damnable govt busybodies, since the Oz system is run 
by them too. Is it the awful food and consequent health-ruining 
obesity? Is it the insane urban violence? Is there a "Pangea-effect" 
that increases rampant infection among 300 million closely networked 
humans on a landscape about the same size as Oz with 20 million 
humans? Is it the way medical services are run in a somewhat more 
"free-market" system (or is it that it's *not* one, but actually a 
sort of corporate fascism of the sort diagnosed by Ayn Rand and 
marxists alike)?

Damien Broderick