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To: gg cox who wrote (192966)	10/27/2022 6:23:45 PM
From: sense	1 Recommendation Recommended By dvdw© Respond to of 218131

You are in error by 180 degrees and an order of magnitude... And, continue to read things that aren't there... America may or may not have "the best in the world"... and I don't really care about that in the specific either way... as that's hardly a useful metric to consider in evaluating one's own position relative to need and 'what should be" that is not ? I tend to not trust the value judgements of others in any case.... given they've proven to have everything related in judgement exactly wrong. That the rest of the world sucks... and are anxious to reduce America to sucking just as badly... is still not generating any reason for me to care what they (or you) want ? I don't give a rats ass about Canada's choices otherwise. Feel free to wallow in it, congratulating yourself. I think it used to be clearly true... that our free market system delivered vastly superior product. Canadians used to flock across the border to get care here that Canada's system would not allow them to access in time to save their lives. Health care that thinks banishing you to waiting in queue until dead "for the greater good" is a proof of superior quality... seems adequately self critiquing, to me. In any case, I don't think it remains true, as a general rule... as we no longer have anything remotely close to approximating a free market here. But, whatever the judgement on any snapshot might require in determining "better"... I doubt the instance is as important as the vector... and the vector is... 180 degrees out... engaged in a global race to the bottom... which, again, generates no reason for me to think it useful to pick teams or add commentary ? I have generally opted out of all participation in the corporate malfeasance and malpractice masquerading as health care in this country... The socialist system of health care sucks... and it has ruined what little good there was left in the pre-corporate system that we once had... Given "their" failure to enable quality... and a vector heading the wrong way... I don't see any reason to pay for it at all... I think it is obviously true, statistically provable, at least... that exposure to "health care" is a leading cause of death... and while it is well worth avoiding on that basis alone... how much more true would it be that "avoiding paying for it" would be equally as rational ? They may have an interest in trying to kill me with incompetence while inducing me to pay for it... which doesn't suggest to me that I should willingly oblige. That leaves me, as in other things, in the position of being expected as an observer to actively participate and at least pick a side to root for... submitting myself to the dangers of control by pro-socialist medicine... or to the similar abuses of the pro-corporate medicine cabal... but, I'm not going along... as I'm instead rooting for both teams to lose... which has me in the unique position of almost certainly being on the winning side of the argument... I will act in self interest... without a need for tolerating others interfering with my choices... in order that they can feel good about themselves for "caring". Thanks for playing.

To: gg cox who wrote (192966)	10/27/2022 6:50:01 PM
From: sense	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218131

On copper, again... Quick gander at a chart shows prior highs, back in 2018, around $3.30... A line drawn across the chart there suggests that the prior highs are now the new lows... Whether that is true or not is a useful question... and, it remains to be seen... as I suspect we're no where near making bottoms in the current economic cycle, rather than "mid decline" at best... and perhaps only still skirting around the upper rim of the abyss, if events unfold in a way that delivers a proof of a less than Panglossian outcome. I'm shocked, frankly, that I've seen no comments at all... maybe not looking in the right places... re Biden's recent schtick on the economy being "strong as hell"... Hell, at least, seems it is an apt enough descriptor and a proper point of departure from which to make a comparison ? The relative strength of hell versus the economy we do have to consider in making a comparison... still seems it would be hard to judge in any useful way. Should we be looking to make it even more hellishly strong ? Hmmm. But, copper at $3.30ish begs the question of how much of that headline price accounts properly for the near doubling of prices inflicted by inflation in the same period. So, $3.30 is really $1.65 in less inflated 2018 dollars... versus the March 15, 2020 low of $2.20 in post-Covid diluted dollars ? Even with interest rates nearing 8% on the typical mortgage, these days... people still seem unable to understand the basic math that accelerating inflation imposes as a requirement in parsing current and future values relative to the outdated metrics in relative value that charts portray without inflation adjustment applied. All just gets me back to the same place as prior post, if by a different path... I don't think the economy has come close to bottoming, yet... won't for some time... so, that still giving me no reason to want to sail along on sinking ships... But, the financial and economic issues are not what is driving things now... rather than the political... So, reasonable to wait and see how the next election and WW III play out before thinking it useful to hazard any guesses on outcomes, or the new time lines in some new reality that we're not yet able to see clearly ?

To: gg cox who wrote (192966)	10/27/2022 7:28:08 PM
From: whistler3000	2 Recommendations Recommended By Pogeu Mahone sense Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218131

While the Canadian system was once functional it no longer is, at least in BC. In fact it's broken. Yesterday during a consultation with a newly (6 months ago) emigrated IT engineer from India he told me he is moving back to India so he can get health care for his family. In BC I'd wager 50% of people do not not have a family doctor - this situation is likely to get far worse as immigration ramps up and more doctors retire than enter practice. Time to urgent hip replacement (my wife's patient with SLE and avascular necrosis who is on daily narcotics for intractable pain) - 2 years. Time to an urgent (not emergent) MRI - 18 months. Time to urgent biopsy for a high risk lesion (ie suspicious breast ca/probable melanoma) - 1-2 months. Time for surgery in biopsy positive cases - 2 months. Time to an autism assessment (to enable funding for therapy which should ideally be started by age 3) - 26 months. Time to be seen in any of the subspecialty clinics (GI, neurology, endocrine etc) at BC Children's Hospital (usually better than any of the adult tertiary care centres owing to prioritised pediatric funding) - 12-18 months.