Updoot for making a comparison to Vogons. I live in Japan where there is socialized medicine, but the big difference is that Japan is 1. not a society of litigation and 2. not a country of mass, illegal immigration. As to the second point, the closest problem is especially Chinese who come here as tourists, somehow exploit the medical system, and return to their country and not pay the bills. In America, if some guy named Jose from Venezuela is rushed to the ER with a gunshot wound because he's a cretin, the hospital saves his live and never hears from him again. Then there are the frivolous lawsuits. My friend's wife had her own practice but when she saw what Obamacare would bring, she called it quits and became a tradwife, raising a family on a single income. He's an engineer, so they can afford it. Anyhow, Howard Dean at the time when Obamacare was being foisted on society even admitted himself that there would never be tort reform included in the package because the Democrat Party is beholden to the Trial Lawyers' Association.
So when Leftists in America look to socialized medicine as their ideal, they emulate Cuba or Canada rather than Japan where it actually sort of works. In America where you have healthcare legislation written by ambulance chasers, the individual is gonna get screwed. On the Right you have politicians who want you to pay through the nose for the medical industry to kill you, and on the Left you have politicians who want the medical industry to kill you "for free" (ie taxed to death). Either way, the medical industry kills you. That is the Rockefeller Western medical paradigm we live in.
I would add that, in my experience, Japan has a culture that is based upon honor/duty/shame, and the society is homogenous, largely. So abusing the system (any system - transport, etc.) is almost unthinkable.
In contrast, the USA is ethnically diverse, the culture of moving around has broken the link between people and their clan/tribe/neighborhood, and criminality is glorified. So don't count on any of that "I won't do this because what will Grammaw think" idea modulating actions.
You may abandon your body, but never your sacred honor. - Musashi-san
I realize the modern Japanese people are "no Musashi-san(s)". Most of them anyway. But still in some aspects, these ideas go to the bone.
P.S. The Chinese have a culture that glorifies cheating the "lao why"/gaijin. And as you know they love to hate the Japanese, which to my eye is mostly jealousy but if they need a reason they'll bring up Manchuria. So going over to Japan to steal medical services would be right up their street. They do it in the USA as well, I am guessing.
As for the tort reform issues in the USA: "First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." - Shakespeare, Henry VI.
Considering a marriage certificate is an actual merger of the two person corporations to the government corporation this bad situation did them both a favor. Well, if they annulled it anyway. Otherwise all it did was remove God from between them and replaced Him with the State. Assuming it was a a religious bond to begin with. This one of the toughest gov contracts to get out of because it involves two people that have to be in agreement over it. Every single gov form that uses the ALL CAPS name is a contract that limits the natural living (wo)man in some way. Usually constitutional freedoms are given up.
Edit: now that I think about it. Medical bills are unsecured debt so they didn’t have to divorce. They could’ve just set it off using UCC-3. Knowledge is power.
Updoot for making a comparison to Vogons. I live in Japan where there is socialized medicine, but the big difference is that Japan is 1. not a society of litigation and 2. not a country of mass, illegal immigration. As to the second point, the closest problem is especially Chinese who come here as tourists, somehow exploit the medical system, and return to their country and not pay the bills. In America, if some guy named Jose from Venezuela is rushed to the ER with a gunshot wound because he's a cretin, the hospital saves his live and never hears from him again. Then there are the frivolous lawsuits. My friend's wife had her own practice but when she saw what Obamacare would bring, she called it quits and became a tradwife, raising a family on a single income. He's an engineer, so they can afford it. Anyhow, Howard Dean at the time when Obamacare was being foisted on society even admitted himself that there would never be tort reform included in the package because the Democrat Party is beholden to the Trial Lawyers' Association.
So when Leftists in America look to socialized medicine as their ideal, they emulate Cuba or Canada rather than Japan where it actually sort of works. In America where you have healthcare legislation written by ambulance chasers, the individual is gonna get screwed. On the Right you have politicians who want you to pay through the nose for the medical industry to kill you, and on the Left you have politicians who want the medical industry to kill you "for free" (ie taxed to death). Either way, the medical industry kills you. That is the Rockefeller Western medical paradigm we live in.
Agreed on all points.
I would add that, in my experience, Japan has a culture that is based upon honor/duty/shame, and the society is homogenous, largely. So abusing the system (any system - transport, etc.) is almost unthinkable.
In contrast, the USA is ethnically diverse, the culture of moving around has broken the link between people and their clan/tribe/neighborhood, and criminality is glorified. So don't count on any of that "I won't do this because what will Grammaw think" idea modulating actions.
You may abandon your body, but never your sacred honor. - Musashi-san
I realize the modern Japanese people are "no Musashi-san(s)". Most of them anyway. But still in some aspects, these ideas go to the bone.
P.S. The Chinese have a culture that glorifies cheating the "lao why"/gaijin. And as you know they love to hate the Japanese, which to my eye is mostly jealousy but if they need a reason they'll bring up Manchuria. So going over to Japan to steal medical services would be right up their street. They do it in the USA as well, I am guessing.
As for the tort reform issues in the USA: "First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." - Shakespeare, Henry VI.
Considering a marriage certificate is an actual merger of the two person corporations to the government corporation this bad situation did them both a favor. Well, if they annulled it anyway. Otherwise all it did was remove God from between them and replaced Him with the State. Assuming it was a a religious bond to begin with. This one of the toughest gov contracts to get out of because it involves two people that have to be in agreement over it. Every single gov form that uses the ALL CAPS name is a contract that limits the natural living (wo)man in some way. Usually constitutional freedoms are given up.
Edit: now that I think about it. Medical bills are unsecured debt so they didn’t have to divorce. They could’ve just set it off using UCC-3. Knowledge is power.
There's a little more to it than that.