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Reply to Is this where the U.S. is headed with Obamacare? in Everything Else Demigod Forums

I dont think you'd find too much disagreement that the private sector is better at running almost all industries. however, [quote who="psychoak" reply="103" id="2716057"] Do you really expect them to run something better than a person who needs to be efficient to stay in business would? [/quote] you need to explain why the the private sector has been largely incapable of producing affordable healthcare in the US thus far. I'm sure you've seen many of such gra

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[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="87" id="2714559"] Because I was including a TV program on free-to-air television, to illustrate the effect of US hegemony on other countries. can you name an aussie news program you get on free tv? i doubt it. i certainly enjoy drudge but i admit im not familiar with CNS or breitbart (as far as i know, may have read in passing). i don't take an issue with the sources, i'll look at just about anything like i said. -Raistlin-, thank you for the explanation

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Reply to Brad Wardell wants to use Steamworks.. in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

i hated steam when i viewed it merely as DRM (ie when HL2 released). these days, after valve had ironed out the kinks, its a pretty neat service. i'd prefer if things like steamworks weren't necessay, but its not the 90s anymore.

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Reply to Is this where the U.S. is headed with Obamacare? in Everything Else Demigod Forums

[quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="82" id="2713059"] Quoting TheDarkKnight2008, reply 78 This is what happens when two former british prison colonies get on the web to chat... The colonies in North America were never penal colonies. Screw you, Australia! [/quote]' What are you talking about? Half the reason Australia was colonised was because the brits could no longer send their prisoners to the north America.

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[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="68" id="2712303"] Yet you listed sources that are only going to affirm your pre-bias. If you read/listen to them all, why was Breitbart, Drudge, CNS, Newsmax not listed? I am not saying they are lily pure, but they do give contrast to the sources you listed. And for that they will give you the perspective to be able to then discern the truth. [/quote] Because I was including a [b]TV[/b] program on free-to-air television, to illustrate

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[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="66" id="2712183"] Australia by contrast, is hugely insignificant in world affairs, so knowledge about it (externally) can be fairly hard to come by. I would not go that far. While not on the level of America, Australia is far from insignificant on the world stage. [/quote] Well, i was speaking in a relative sense. when australia gets up and speaks i rarely get the impression that anyone listens. yeah, that's right, fuck you fiji! [quo

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[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="64" id="2712124"] I am kind of shocked that Australians think they know more about America than Americans do.[/quote] I certainly wouldn't claim to know more about the US than someone like you or psychoak. But you have to remember that the world is saturated by information about the US (i for instance read a number of US newspapers and get jim lehrer televised weekly), there are innumerable courses one can take on american history etc. i "meet" plenty o

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[quote]Negative, budget surplus in 1990. You were ten billion plus in the hole each year following till the Howard administration started cutting spending and put it back in the positive. Australia did start the 90's in the black though. [/quote] [b]budget[/b] might have been in the black under keating, but the debt was still there. It’s a stick the Liberal Party bash the Labor Party with constantly, because they argue the lefties left us with $96B debt by 1996

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[quote who="psychoak" reply="58" id="2711607"]That's not even current, it's a paper from 2001 using statistics from the late 90's. Ten year old information. It would still be relevant if it weren't for the conditions you're in, private insurance was dropping like a rock in the 90's, ate through the budget surpluses you guys had and put you into the red till they started extra subsidies to get people back off the dole. You went past where we are now, and it hurt enough to tur

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here you go [quote] How much does health care really cost? In 1998-9 Australia spent $50.3 billion on health care (Health Expenditure Bulletin No 16, June 2000, AIHW). This amounts to 8.5% of GDP. This percentage has been stable since the early 1990s, after increasing in the late eighties from 7.6% of GDP in 1984-85. Over the last decade GDP in real terms increased by about 4.1% with the health cost component rising by 4.6%. This means that health car

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[quote who="psychoak" reply="48" id="2711221"]Yeah... Sorry, no. That would fit the bill, but the context is all wrong. Uncle Sam pays just under 50% of every dollar spent on health care in the US. Australia's pays less than 25% of theirs. Australia would be an argument in favor of less government run health care, not more. You guys went the insurance subsidy route and gave incentives to get off the dole and into the public but primarily privatel

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[quote who="psychoak" reply="30" id="2706976"] http://www.visualeconomics.com/gdp-vs-national-debt-by-country/ I figured one with pretty pictures would be better, since you're too dumb to look things up for yourself and need to be spoon fed information you could find in ten seconds. I'll be generous and go with twenty years. When you find a country that's had government run health care fo

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Reply to Dragon Age turning into Mass Effect? in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

what about this tidbit eh? fuck you bioware. [quote] As many feared Dragon Age II is changing from a PC franchise to a console one, and with it are coming some big changes that are going to upset PC gamers. French Magazine Joystick (Sept. issue) interviewed Mike Laidlaw - lead designer on DAO II. In it Mike reveals that DAO II was made thinking of console users first (the biggest sales are on console) and as a consequence Dragon Age

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Reply to Games that I miss in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

[quote quoting="post"] Wing Commander Series: The pinnacle of "Space Opera" solid combat and story. Never have I been so immersed in space.[/quote] this (except imo tie fighter and freespace 2 were better games). the space combat genre is dead :(

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