Pay your fair share of tax - everyone

[Mich the Tester]

Can i take it as a concession that you agree with the content of my last post?

No, it's meant as an insult, so it would be nice if you'd take it as an insult.

[Robinho]

No, it's meant as an insult, so it would be nice if you'd take it as an insult.

So you have no intelligent counter argument to what i have stated in that post?

(shock horror!)

[Sysman]

1. It is in the insurance companys' interest to keep costs down for their customers. So if it is cheaper to operate earlier or take preventative care it will be done.

Mates from the US tell a different story. The insurance industry's best interest is to keep premiums up.

1. Yes it is, now try explaining that to the insurance companies who have done nothing but add bureaucracy and unnecessary costs to Dutch healthcare by insisting on backward Taylorist approaches to 'quality' and process control. Theory good, practice tulipe.

Let me guess. Prices rocketing?

[sasguru]

What he doesn't do, which is essential, is take Karl Popper's advice and actually go looking for evidence that could falsify his ideology. That would be one step toward making him a scientist instead of a deluded cretin in a tinfoil hat .

WHS. But you have to understand he was edjumacated under Labour, who told him his opinion was as good as everyone else's. I doubt he's heard of Popper or Kuhn, which is why he's able to make an arse of himself on here with no sense of shame.

[Mich the Tester]

Mates from the US tell a different story. The insurance industry's best interest is to keep premiums up.



Let me guess. Prices rocketing?

Yep. Prices rocketing, choice declining, medical staff and patients complaining that standards are falling. To be fair, it all looked like a good idea at the time, but it isn't working. To err is human, but to carry on with the same policy when it's become obvious it's failing is stupidity.

[Mich the Tester]

WHS. But you have to understand he was edjumacated under Labour, who told him his opinion was as good as everyone else's. I doubt he's heard of Popper or Kuhn, which is why he's able to make an arse of himself on here with no sense of shame.

I can hear the echo of Rob furiously googling.

[Robinho]

It's easy to explain why. Rob keeps asking for evidence against his hypotheses. That's all very well, and if we could be bothered, we'd provide it. What he doesn't do, which is essential, is take Karl Popper's advice and actually go looking for evidence that could falsify his ideology. That would be one step toward making him a scientist instead of a deluded cretin in a tinfoil hat .

BTW i never stated any of my healthcare theories as fact. I said "I believe". This is based on my observations in other industries where private sector is more efficient than the public.

Realistically there is only one first world country with private healthcare and that is the US but it has its own problems. So asking for examples and evidence is rather difficult.

Other countries have it to varying degrees such has Singapore which does quite well.

But i will stress again that it is my belief.

[d000hg]

Why do you guys bother debating with this obvious troll? Is retirement really that dull Sas? Is your avatar really so true Mich that arguing with a fictional character is the most entertainment available to you?!

[sasguru]

Is retirement really that dull Sas?

Yes

[Mich the Tester]

BTW i never stated any of my healthcare theories as fact. I said "I believe". This is based on my observations in other industries where private sector is more efficient than the public.

Realistically there is only one first world country with private healthcare and that is the US but it has its own problems. So asking for examples and evidence is rather difficult.

Other countries have it to varying degrees such has Singapore which does quite well.

But i will stress again that it is my belief.

Let's see shall we?

Our Healthcare System | Ministry of Health


Good, affordable basic healthcare is available to Singaporeans through subsidised medical services at public hospitals and clinics. Our hospitals and healthcare system will never withhold help to a Singaporean because of financial limitations.

In other words, it's largely state run, but includes private practice where appropriate. Just like the NHS, but obviously run by doctors instead of these wierd, outdated 20th century pseudo-professionals called 'managers'.