[ExI] wealth and health (was: Re: Transhumanism and Politics)

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Fri Jan 25 04:46:33 UTC 2008


At 10:35 PM 1/24/2008 -0600, I wrote:

>What is it in particular about the US that would provoke this
>terrible crushing from work-shyness, when nations like Australia,
>Canada and the UK already have universal health care paid from taxes,
>and have had for generations, without their societies going belly up?
>Is it because incomes are so marginal, due to a shockingly high level
>of taxation,

Just in case anyone got lost there, I meant, of course, "is it 
because incomes in those nations not called the USA are so marginal..."

Damien Broderick





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