[ExI] Single Payer Healthcare

[spike]

From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Stathis Papaioannou
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 9:10 PM
To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Subject: Re: [ExI] Single Payer Healthcare

 

 

 

You seem to be suggesting that mental illness is not a health problem, whereas it's a well known fact that thoughts and feelings are due to the brain and the brain is part of the body, the same as the heart or the liver are.

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Stathis Papaioannou

 

 

Hi Stathis, no I get that.  What I don’t get is how to count suicides in an evaluation of life expectancy and the medical system.  If a teenager slays herself over a sweetheart, that has a crazy high impact on life expectancy compared to the medics fumbling about and giving a little old lady the wrong medication.  Same with teenage inner city drug warriors: that isn’t anything any medical system can fix.  

 

I will repeat my earlier comment: I am suspicious of rip rap, or hip hop, whatever they call that goddam rubbish thinly disguised as entertainment.  I partially blame that reprehensible “art form” starting with Cobain and getting still worse from there.  Sheesh, even disco is preferable with its brainless jiggle-inducing endless repetition of nothingness, and oh dear I have become my own grandfather, evolution rest his insightful soul.

 

spike

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