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[quote="MSimon] Yes. But is that true in Canada? Or GB? Or France?[/quote] The facts: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2102rank.html US is #50 on that list. Canada is #8, France is #9, and the ever popular whipping boy UK is #38. Japan is #3, and the highest indu...

Here's a non-anecdotal Great Moment In Socialized Healthcare . The babies born in hospital corridors: Bed shortage forces 4,000 mothers to give birth in lifts, offices and hospital toilets Thousands of women are having to give birth outside maternity wards because of a lack of midwives and hospital...

Furthermore, you dismiss life expectancy as a measure of success or failure of a healthcare system. What yardstick are we to use to compare these systems? I don't dismiss them, actuaries do. What are good measures? Cancer survival rates. Availablity of MRIs, other diagnostics and specialist care. 1...

I have personal experience with socialized medicine and I have never experienced anything like the dramatic shortages, wait times or poor quality that you're claiming are endemic in the system. The plural of anecdote is not data. If you don't mind that you're 10x less likely to get an MRI and are l...

This is just mind-bogglingly disconnected from reality. Actually, I think your arguments are mind-bogglingly disconnected from reality. I live in a country with one of these systems. I have personal experience with socialized medicine and I have never experienced anything like the dramatic shortage...

Great Moments In Socialized Health Care After weeks of excruciating pain, Mark Wattson was understandably relieved to have his appendix taken out. Doctors told him the operation was a success and he was sent home. But only a month later the 35-year-old collapsed in agony and had to be taken back to...

I know I'm going to get flamed for saying this, but I think the argument for 'free markets' in healthcare is a bit delusional. For a free market to lead to the optimal outcome there has to be some elasticity of demand. I would argue that there is none for life saving procedures and medicines, which ...

Starting off with usual caveat...not an engineer, so please forgive if my question is silly. I read somewhere that some species of carbon fiber are highly conductive. Can you wind them into an electromagnet? They are supposed to have very high thermal tolerance (I saw 2500k somewhere?). This is tru...

I was reading about forward osmosis desalination technologies recently and came upon this...which seems on topic for this thread. http://www.yale.edu/env/elimelech/publication-pdf/McGinnis_et_al_JMS_2007.pdf Apparently some research is needed into creating appropriate semi permeable membranes for th...

I've never been clear what Lerner brings to the 'table', in terms of inventive fusion devices. Dense plasma focus's have been well-known for years. An idea out or Russian, I think, if you look at the history. What does Lerner bring? He brings a 'twist' in the electrodes. That is the single feature ...

Feel free!... Presumably you raise him for his own use of circles in set diagrams, a use not previously prescribed. My thesis is that we just don't know whether many of these 'ancient' inventions were just random event coming together, random ideas, and/or a mixture of both. My contention is that i...

You misunderstand. A circle is an 'idea', the 'perfect' concept of equidistant points from a centre. So, I'm not talking about the first thing that rolled down a hill, I'm talking about the first concept anyone ever had that if they made a hub, and put a concentric circle about that hub (because th...

Hardly a similar scenario. Polywell/ITER is more like when caveman was trying to decide between triangular or star-shaped wheels, and had to wait several thousand years for someone to invent the circle. (D'you like my little bit of 'instant' philosophy - was the circle, as a shape, 'invented' or 'd...

The idea of a polywell vs ITER race immediately caused me to imagine a fat elephant with no legs up against a dwarf on a penny farthing, sitting there at the start line long after the starter klaxon. ROTFLMAO :lol: Thank you chrismb. Regards Polygirl Grammatically correct leetspeak. An oddity to be...

Wind power would be wonderful if it either cost less than coal or it was as reliable as coal. Since it is neither it has drawbacks. Here's the rub though. If there's no global warming, as you are so keen to point out, why would we need to consider anything other than coal? The only significant obst...