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nothing in the health care industry is "free", not anywhere LadyLorraine Send a noteboard - 26/03/2010 11:44:49 PM
it's just a matter of who is paying the bill. Either the patient is, their insurance is, or the gov't is. If the hospitals were taking no money, they'd go bankrupt in a matter of days, if not less. Health care still requires money to give out treatments and money doesn't exactly come from nothing. Or are you under some delusion that health care runs off "charitable donations" or some rot?

And in any case, even "free" treatment is still a service. It is an action performed for another, as opposed to a good provided for another. Again, if you can think of a better term to use for health care, please, feel free to inform me. You seem to keep wanting to define it as "something else", but never do so.


PS. And as for your astonishing lack of desire to think instead of arguing a very simple concept taught in a basic economics course, I have grown quite tired of them and will continue to address your presented dearth of intelligence until it either ceases to amuse me or you actually go look up what a service.

and you might want to pick an Italian curse word that's a LITTLE less well known.

EDIT: Ugh, why did this not work last time. anyway. I just was talking with a Canadian friend of mind and he explained what you might be thinking (like you didn't care to). he said you might be considering it's own category where the implied elitism of the service providers (aka, the health care professionals) leads to the greater prevalence of rudeness and related behaviors.

If that is what you mean, then I can at least understand now wtf you were bitching about. My argument would then, once again, be that the prevalence and "oh well that's just how it is" does not excuse pointedly rude discriminatory behavior.
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