>> Staying hungry by eating only about 70% of the calories you should normally eat, is currently the only method known that will increase your lifespan

That theory has been debunked. It appears to work for simpler animals like rats. However, a recent comprehensive study of monkeys showed that calorie restriction produced no meaningful difference in lifespan. Since humans are genetically closer to monkeys than rats, that's how it would likely work for us too. Healthier diet, on the other hand, did seem to make a difference.

The article has more info: http://www.myhealthwire.com/news/diet-nutrition/64
A link to actual study: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7415/full/nature11432.html

>>No one can predict exactly how long any given procedure will take on any specific patient.

Welcome to the real world. Guess what, doctors are not exclusive, many occupations are exactly like that. I used to do Tech Support and now software development. Both have huge variations in how long it takes to actually fix seemingly similar problems. In tech support, I got a couple easy calls which could be fixed in 2-3 minutes, but then a 30-60 minutes hell-call from an old lady with a screwed-up computer. Yet, management fully expected average phone call time to be under 10, preferably 5 minutes.

Same with software development. Some bug fixes can take 5 minutes, some 3 days. Adding a feature has the same variation, from minutes (when all data is available, and you just need to add display field) to days and weeks when the feature is entirely new to the system.

The other occupations manage with the average times set by bean counters. Doctors must as well.

"Informative" up your greedy overpaid "dentist" ass.

>> (Hint: It doesn't get fixed by bureaucracies like this and it doesn't get fixed by doing socialized medicine.)

You pulled your "hints" out of your ass; you should check if you have hemorrhoids there as well.
The fact is that most developed European countries as well as Canada have single-payer (a.k.a. by conservative dipshits as "socialized medicine") for decades. It's quite successful; most patients are happy, and, most importantly, the patients are utterly horrified when they hear about "free-market" pricing in the U.S.

Pfff, my soon-to-be-released Assembly program will put his slow ruby ass to shame, thus starting HFR (high frequency reservation) era and trading in reservation futures.

Submarine aircraft carrier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_aircraft_carrier

"socialism". You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
Please educate yourself here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism

That's a bullshit statement. Not for career criminals or repeat offenders. They damn well care if they have a chance to kiss goodbye for a specific crime or not. Only random criminals who commit a crime in the heat of the moment might care less about death penalty. Still, in the back of the minds of most of them but complete psychos there will be a reminder that if you cross the line, you will have a good chance of leaving this world before the creator intended, and most of them will try not to cross the line.

This is a very childish, trollish way to ask a serious philosophical question about how human society should be organized. "better", really? That's a simplistic, meaningless qualification. Let me guess, you are twelve years old and read some Ayn Rand. 5, insightful?

Another classic example of this is the story about the man who drowned in a pool of water whose average depth was 1 inch.

The whole H1B idea has been perverted by greedy companies looking for cheap and obedient labor so much that it should be cancelled. There is already O-1 visa for "Individuals with Extraordinary Ability or Achievement" that is intended for geniuses that can be hard to find in the U.S. Any other needs can and should be filled within the country.

Look ma, another snowflake! You think you are oh-so-special and can't be replaced? That's probably because your manager hasn't bothered yet. Wait until a bad quarter or management change, than you'll be training an indian in a heartbeat. Your attitude is utterly disgusting. Hopefully, life teaches you a lesson.

You can easily buy a local variety of frozen pizza with Euros in the European Union, with Yuan in China, with Yen in Japan. With bitcoins, you can buy the pizza only in Bitcoinland, and at a very few fringe businesses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident

Of course, these laws are rarely if ever enforced, just like many other labor laws, such as age discrimination. Companies politely urinate on these laws and keep on going exploiting desperate young people for corporate gains. There have been many reports about this, for example:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/business/03intern.html?pagewanted=all

Laws mean nothing without enforcement. Corporations are bribing government not to enforce the laws. Until we put a stop on the abuse, corporations will keep exploiting workers like sheep.

offtopic shameless repuglican TROLL.