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How so? If the service is WORTH paying for, then it SHOULD be paid for. The world of service, if proven magnetizable, should always be monetized. #FreeMarkets

JohnAtCCon The State of Apple's Developer Documentation

Tim Cook, cooking books?

JohnAtCCon As Suicides Rise, Insurers Find Ways to Deny Mental Health Coverage

We reject the taxation of the common man that socialized healthcare at the rates many of the example countries have. It's less about our healthcare, than it is about the manner in which we pay for it.

Don't get me wrong, it's a young man's system. You pay in when you are young, so you can have it when you are old. This is clearly the UK model after WWII and why its so popular here as an idea as our sister-mother country.

Flawed? Maybe ... terrible? no.

JohnAtCCon As Suicides Rise, Insurers Find Ways to Deny Mental Health Coverage

Generally, I do agree with this - but outside of anecdotal evidence of public opinion over it, do you have references (scientific) I can find on this in particular?

JohnAtCCon As Suicides Rise, Insurers Find Ways to Deny Mental Health Coverage

I'm not sure how this all plays out in policy, but outside of the criticism of the gun community and it relates to deaths by firearms - we have half the suicide rate in the United States as Japan - which has almost no access to firearms by its general population.

It's worth noting in relevance, because the politics in Healthcare reflect the policy of public opinion as well as legislation around other tangent issues our country is trying to reconcile what it wants to do (if anything) about it.