[ExI] Why Cities Keep Growing, Corporations and People Always Die, and Life Gets Faster

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-
> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Stefano Vaj
> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 7:18 AM
> To: rafal at smigrodzki.org; ExI chat list
> Subject: Re: [ExI] Why Cities Keep Growing, Corporations and People
> Always Die, and Life Gets Faster
> 
> BTW, it is not clear to me why Americans call "socialised" a system
> where medical services are still offered by private entities for a
> profit, and the government does not do anything else than footing the
> bill...

Some fairly clear reference material for that viewpoint:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2009/10/the-doom-that-fell-upon-medical-p
rogress-in-the-us.php

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2006/12/the-costs-and-consequences-of-med
ical-socialism.php

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2006/10/the-cost-of-medical-socialism.php

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