For-profit universal healthcare: would it work in the US?

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Sure they have gotten more expensive,

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Thank you.

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Jogger, you [censored] moron, one small aspect of entertainment has gotten more expensive while nearly everything else has decreased in price and increased in value.

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Jogger, you [censored] moron, one small aspect of entertainment has gotten more expensive while nearly everything else has decreased in price and increased in value.

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Hand-made custom furniture has probably gotten more expensive, too. But furniture in general is vastly cheaper. Lobster has gotten more expensive, food in general much cheaper.

[jogger08152]

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Jogger, you [censored] moron, one small aspect of entertainment has gotten more expensive while nearly everything else has decreased in price and increased in value.

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Reread my verrrrrry first post in this thread. I'll post the relevant part of it for you, along with the comment it responded to:

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entertainment prices have decreased,

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Go to movies and/or concerts much?

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Out of 15 or 20 replies to my post, you're the very first guy who granted me my specific point. Of course, you called me a [censored] moron in your reply, so you're about on par with your fellow ACers in terms of civility, but I do think you deserve props for being (even if just by a narrow margin) more intellectually honest than the average ACer.

Best regards,
Jogger

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Out of 15 or 20 replies to my post, you're the very first guy who granted me my specific point. Jogger

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I think you missed one:

:"As far as movies and concerts go, that is cherry picking two aspects of the industry that have increased, when entertainment as a whole is clearly down. The movie comparison is weak anyway, since there are many more venues to watch movies that are in fact cheaper than they were, and at far greater convenience. Concerts are also not the greatest comparison, first because it is very low supply, second, prices cannot be decreased by technology, and third the disposable income of concert goers has increased far more than average wages have increased. The $300 its costing me to see Roger Waters Friday means a lot less than the scalped $55 it cost to the Wall, and the disposable income of teen concert goers today vs teen concert goers in 1980 has grown even more than my income has. "

[jogger08152]

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Out of 15 or 20 replies to my post, you're the very first guy who granted me my specific point. Jogger

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I think you missed one:

:"As far as movies and concerts go, that is cherry picking two aspects of the industry that have increased, when entertainment as a whole is clearly down. The movie comparison is weak anyway, since there are many more venues to watch movies that are in fact cheaper than they were, and at far greater convenience. Concerts are also not the greatest comparison, first because it is very low supply, second, prices cannot be decreased by technology, and third the disposable income of concert goers has increased far more than average wages have increased. The $300 its costing me to see Roger Waters Friday means a lot less than the scalped $55 it cost to the Wall, and the disposable income of teen concert goers today vs teen concert goers in 1980 has grown even more than my income has. "

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No, he's still incorrectly holding out on movies. (If all you ever did was rent, never going to the theatre, they'd cost the same as they did 50 years ago in proportion to one's income.)

[natedogg]

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Why would you want to force someone to buy insurance?

I love that idea! Can I get a law passed that forces everyone to buy my services?

natedogg

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dont knock it, the insurance industry did it for auto.

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The carseat manufacturers are close behind. They keep getting the assembly to pass new laws making the age/size limits bigger and bigger. What a racket.

natedogg