Last words of Uncle Monster (William Lassiter)?

[Ed Pawlowski]

No, you don't get it for free. Do you even know how much you pay?

[2987pl]

Still a stupid price for that.

Which is much less than the premium you or the employer pays.

You lot pay TWICE as much per person as Canada does and get a worse result with the only measures that matter, years in reasonable health where you can still do most of what you want to do and infant mortality rates.

[2987pl]

I do.

Yep, zero. I pay no income tax at all now that I have retired. None of the taxes I do still pay like the fuel tax, the tax on some goods and services, pays for the health care costs.

[T]

It has been out of the bottle for years. Now we have to get it past the vested interests that make a gob of money off of pushing these addictive food lick substances: Big Ag, Big Med, Big Pharma, and the unholy mother of all corruption, Big Gov.

Notice how they call it a "low carb" diet? It is an ancestral level of carbs found it nature diet. Not the unnatural hybridized high glycemic carbohydrates that are causing all the damage.

The accurate description would be "natural" level of carbohydrate diet.

Be careful with the term "refined". Brown rice in not refined and is very, very little difference in glycemic impact as is white rice. It is Glycemic load we are after.

Oh Brown rice has twice the nutrition as white rice. uh Huh. Lets run the numbers

White Rice: 1 x zero = 0 Brown Rice: 2 x zero = Hmmmmmmmmmm

[T]

No fooling. Add to that autoimmune diseases

[T]

That is why God made Lawyers

[T]

And really, really sh**ty service

[Shadow]

Brasilia is two bowls. One upright, the other upside down. Surrounded by concrete in the middle of a desert. They say they built it so the politicians wouldn't be influenced by their electorate. It's literally in the middle of nowhere.

There are favelas everywhere. The 1964 right wing dictatorship's policy was import semi-slave labor from the poor regions (North and North-East) of Brazil, make them build things, then fire them. Usually not enough money left to pay the trip home, so they built houses with tin cans, pieces of concrete and zinc and stayed and survived as maids and gardeners, delivery boys for local markets, or sold stuff they salvaged from trash. Some became beggars, a lot became criminals (muggers and drug peddlers). Of course, a lot of the favelas were "urbanized" (paved roads, clean water, electricity, sanitation, schools - both basic and technical and small clinics) under the 12 year PT government, but favelas are not places to visit if you are a tourist. Unemployment has gone up from just over 4% to over 20% since the 2015 coup. That camera round your neck is probably worth more than they've seen in a year. Dead tourists don't even make the headlines anymore (unless they die in a "safe" zone, like Copacabana.) []'s

PS I worked on one of the Military government's "miracles". They would import 2000-4000 unskilled laborers for a "stage" in the construction, fire them, and when they had enough money for the next stage (3-6 months later), import another 2000-4000. They never hired the people that had worked there before. I've never understood that policy, the older guys had more experience. Back then it was dangerous to think about those things, let alone ask. Maybe they were too weak and malnourished to do heavy work and recovering them was too "socialist". Dunno.

[Shadow]

A f****it such as myself knows google can't be trusted. []'s

[rbowman]

Maybe if we moved the SOG to Kansas... From the brief history I read the idea of moving to capital to the middle of nowhere had been around for a long time. The capitals of several US states can serve as a trick question but usually there is a historical reason why they are backwaters. Often they were the big cheese in the 1800's but then the world moved on.

The semi-educated American can possibly pull Rio and Sao Paulo out of their butt. I do have it on the authority of my sixth grade teacher that the latter is pronounced Soo Pooloo which I doubt is quite correct.

Spanish, let alone Portuguese, wasn't well known where I grew up so I can mispronounce almost anything in Latin America.

[2987pl]

No I didn’t. We didn’t have it all my working life.

Free for me. And its less than half the cost per person as yours costs and we get a much better result than you do on the measures that matter, years in reasonable health where you can do most of what you want to do, and with infant mortality.

[rbowman]

The left wing of Maggie Thatcher? He's having quite a garage sale isn't he? I read an opinion piece today on an alt-right site that questioned who was doing more to f*ck up a perfectly good country, Bolsonaro or Salvini. Good luck.

[Rod Speed]

Even a terminal f****it such as yourself should be able to work out what google turns up can be trusted in that area.

[T]

It this the same incident?

[invalid unparseable]

That is true. Our health care is still better but very costly and there is a lot that could be done about it.

[rbowman]

Not even vaguely related. Did you read the link?

[Shadow]

Goldman Sachs just readjusted their last week's prevision of our GNP "growth". From 1.9 % to 1.49%. And our national debt from 58% to 61% of the GNP. (It was

33,6% under the social democrats before the coup) And that was after BolsoNazi managed to bribe "lawmakers" to remove worker's rights and freeze state pensions "to save the economy". On his to do list: sell the Amazon (our petroleum reserves have been sold) and all our state highways. And raise taxes AGAIN. He's taking his right-wing agenda very seriously.

Salvini will never be as destructive as Bolsta. Don't bet on him. []'s

[Shadow]

Lula has just been cleared the SECOND time by a UN legal team. They found NO PROOF of any crimes that could justify his imprisonment.

Reminder: He was sentenced to over 20 years of solitary confinement when he declared he would run for president. Polls showed he would win by a landslide.

Oh, my, I lost the report. And a "terminal f****it" like me can't find it. Be a darling and Google it for me, please. I'd really like to review it. Make my day. TIA []'s

PS You're Australian, right ? Maybe I should adjust the subject line.

[Shadow]

ROFLOL. Thanks, I needed that. []'s

[2987pl]

Its more complicated than that. Yes, it makes no sense to require the same proof of safety of a new drug which has had that in say the EU as one that has not had any of that anywhere yet, but the real reason for the much higher cost of meds in the USA is that you lot arent allowed to import the same drugs from say the EU when they are much cheaper there, after all the approval process.

And has nothing to do with the other terminal stupidity where those without medical insurance are slugged costs like $230K for having a pacemaker fitted when even the insurance companies don’t pay anything like that to have one fitted.

And vast amounts of money is pissed against the wall on all the paperwork involved in deciding what a particular policy will pay for and what it will not, instead of a single payer system where there is no dispute about who gets to pay for what is medically required to be done.