I realize your probably trolling, but which kid should skip eating? More realistically, which month should I skip rent, because that's probably in the MRI cost range.

Why are rich people dying with money in the bank if it's a purely economic issue? Healthcare improves and gets cheaper the more we practice. I would prefer my doctor has performed a procedure on hundreds of other patients, then paying for and receiving cutting edge revolutionary procedures.

9/10, good troll.

Depending on where and when you get injured that is a normal wait time in the US. How would you like to have no followup care and a crippling bill to worry about on top of that?

I'll take a Death Panel over one guy reviewing and denying my claim, or a hospital admin tossing me in a cab or refusing to admit.

Yes, it takes vast resources. Why do we need to pay a middle man on top of that? Why do we each have to pay a different middle man with different rules and complicate things for both the provider and the patient? I have no problem paying for healthcare. I just think we need a national pool. That would truly equalize costs.

But people should be allowed to work for whatever wage they want, minimum wage is communism. Why is minimum hours any different? People will just decline those jobs and the market will fix it?

Wait, are you saying we need to improve our regulations, or are you advocating single payer?

Insurance needs to be decoupled from industry. It puts us at a competitive disadvantage and it makes coverage worthless when you really need it, since you can't work when you are in the hospital.

Single payer is the only system that makes sense, even discounting the huge savings inherent in such a system compared to our current system.

This has been an ongoing issue since America transitioned from a capitalist society to a manamentist society sometime in the 40's. This book outlines some of this and laments the way the management class has seized power, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500881h.html

If it's an email, it should say "Email isn't working, ETA".
My point is if the CIO says the network is down it almost certainly is not. He probably means his tablet won't connect, or his laptop battery died.

Your analogy fails because financial people don't want you to know what they are doing, their profit is invisible to you. We technology professionals have a tradition of transparency that is slowing seeping into other industries and seems to be seriously damaging the political and financial world.
Don't let up!

I prefer Bing's Bird's eye view to Google's Street View.

fix your resolution on openSUSE.

Here's a questions someone might be able to answer. If a woman has all her eggs when she is born, why are we harvesting them from living women, why aren't cadaverous eggs a viable solution? One body donated to science could yield thousands of eggs?

Well, owners might, but most decisions in our economy are made by managers. A particularly inept breed...