[ExI] Single Payer Healthcare

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Wed., 29 Mar. 2017 at 3:58 pm, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 28, 2017 9:10 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Single Payer Healthcare
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> 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
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> Stathis Papaioannou
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> 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.
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There are some conditions leading to suicide, such as the psychotic
disorders and major depression, which are relatively easily diagnosed and
treated. Others, such as personality disorders and substance abuse, are
more difficult to treat but treatment can have some impact. This is the
same in any branch of medicine.

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.
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Stathis Papaioannou
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