Forum Overview :: Motherfucking News :: Re: Good questions, glad we more or less agree on the basics, though.

[quote name="Senor Barborito"][quote name="Lizard_King"][quote name="Senor Barborito"]First question, obvious answer: tax discrimination against hypochondriacs. The more you bother a doctor and he marks it down as essentially a needless visit taking up his time, the higher taxes on healthcare you pay on an exponential scale. Alternatively: if you go and you're not actually sick and didn't have a good reason to believe you were, you have to pay the full cost of the visit yourself.[/quote] That sounds suspiciously like substituting more or less arbitrary judgement calls on the part of the doctor for those on the part of the patient (obvious cases aside). You really believe this will not only approach cost-effectiveness, but will have the desired effect? Why not, and I know I'm going out on a limb here, simply pay for your doctor's visits, yourself, with your own money...I am always (un)surprised by how quickly that cures hypochondria.[/quote] What I'm saying is hypochondriacs pay for their doctor's visits themselves with their own money. That cures hypochondriacs and leaves the rest of us fine. [quote name="Lizard_King"][quote name="Senor Barborito"]Immigrants, damned good question. That's one I'll leave for any implementors to handle because as an unemployed tech worker in the current time it is impossible for me to form an objective opinion about immigrants. My vote would always be 'screw the bastards and let 'em rot.'[/quote] So, do you mean cut immigration? Lower quotas? Some sort of 2nd class citizenship until they "earn" their place on the dole? All of those seem rather inhumane, and more importantly, costly given the economic benefits of a healthy flow of immigration.[/quote] As I said, don't expect me to have anything like an objective view on the topic of immigration. Leave that to somebody else.[/quote]