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2 standard deviations from the mean weight (for height, I am guessing?) would be a hazardous standard, simply because muscle is heavy stuff, and very fit people can be rather heavy--and we're not just talking professional athletes, either. Any person who is extremely fit can end up being shockingly heavy as compared with their height and appearance. Also, recent evidence suggests that genuinely overweight people who exercise regularly tend to be healthier than thin people who never exercise--and details like that would matter if we're talking about cutting people off from public, universal health insurance.

But I take your meaning. I also support universal healthcare, but I worry that Americans tend to try to make the most of what they are given--and not in a good way. There would need to be some structure in place to assure that medical care was being used responsibly. And there are ways to do that--I would think the focus would shift to education and prevention, which would hopefully lead to a cultural shift--everyone changing their ways at once.

And there's still the thorny problem of expensive miracle cures. At what point do you decide that an extremely ill or elderly person does not get to try the latest surgery or innovation that could perhaps allow them a little more life? Because that sort of thing gets expensive. One miracle surgery is vaccine for a thousand kids.

Casey has moved to Sydney!

Blogger learns how to monetise hate

However, he also needs emergency accommodation for a few days, so I generously...

HARM, we need to call a bored meeting of Harm-X Industries. LLC, GmbH.

On 7.7.7 bring seven of something.

BLOG PARTY - HOUSE WARMING.

I nominate David Spade to play CS when the movie comes out! Now there's a guy that looks perfectly comfortable with his lips wrapped around soy latte'!

I'm none too sure about the Aussie press. The "application" of "haterz" concerns me? I can't say for certain but is CS being portrayed as a victim here? It's as if the press down under knew all along that the collapse in U.S real estate (duh) was inevitable and CS was duped into his "venture". If ever I'm accused of fraud I know where I'm heading! "Industrial strength vitriol"? Uh... ever heard Surfer-X tear into MP/FR/CR!?

Perhaps that Marxist website isn't the most convincing proponent of my point of view, but I have read in both the Wall Street Journal and Economist that by most people's measure of class mobility, the US has fallen behind Europe. I was actually googling for "class mobility" and that one came up first.

I was actually googling for “class mobility” and that one came up first.

Have you stumbled upon Marxist spam?