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In NSW, there is such a scam where it is illegal to auction your own home without being registered under the Property, Business, Stock and Agency Act.

They MUST get their 2.5% of the sale price or the sky will fall.

Good effort. I hope you make millions and run these rent seekers into the ground.

"That smells like chlorphyl bonding with sodium tetrasulfate!"

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Run it again and sort by price. What is the cheapest? By how much cheaper is it than Medicare? How many firms can you use before it becomes as expensive as Medicare? Both of what you listed were still cheaper than medicare. "Finally, if you don't think overhead costs are a factor, you're in den...

A healthy 25 year old with no family and has finished their education can spend as little as $25 US per month. Preferred-Care Blue Rate Saver PPO THIS IS BASIC COVERAGE The most expensive plan cost $231.63 US per month. Blue Care HMO THIS IS EXTENSIVE COVERAGE https://www.ehealthinsurance.com/ I sai...

Ahem. Even if you are right, the private sector is still 22% cheaper.

No, it is fact, properly researched data.

Deal with it.

Who cares about overhead? The fact is that private healthcare is 2.44 times cheaper per patient. If you can cut down overheads, start your own insurance firm.

It is not a farce. READ THE ARTICLE I POSTED TOO Medicare costs 6 600 USD per paitient, private costs 2 700 USD Medicare literally counts cost of capital as zero. Can you imagine a private firm never paying interest? Medicare doesn't count the cost of gathering funds from the IRS, excluding deadweig...

http://healthcare-economist.com/2006/07/27/medicares-true-administrative-costs/ A common justification for Medicare is that the public health insurance system has an overhead cost which is about 2% of claims, while the private sector has administrative costs between 20%-25% of claims. This tells us ...

Administrative cost might mean someting. It is simply a ratio. How are you defining administrative cost? How complex are the services that private healthcare provides? Are you counting profit as part of administrative cost? Are you considering by how much medicare, medicaid etc cost in taxes over th...

1. You can't have a right to something which is an unfunded liability. How is the healthcare of Ethiopians? (They would be better off if their tax system didn't impose 89% personal income tax on incomes over 4000 USD). 2. Why do you keep on saying that private healthcare is more expensive? Clearly p...

Public healthcare is really costly - it just isn't worth it. http://divisionoflabour.com/archives/003463.php With much attention focused on universal medical insurance, the abstract of a new NBER Working Paper reminds us that government insurance often crowds out private insurance: The continued int...

That's not "capitalism", it is crony capitalism or corporatism.

Free enterprise is a much nicer term.

What a sheethouse idea, it amounts to an indirect subsidy.

Subsidies are bad!

1. Let's take away profits (but somehow people want to make d*ugs?). 2. Let's not subsidise healthcare as it subsidises big pharma. 3. Let's subsidise healthcare because it is unaffordable. Does not compute. The generic firms are there to make money as well. The sensible and obvious thing you wrote ...

Right. Take away profits.

How much then gets spent on health R&D?

Sweet f*ck all.

Don't be daft.

Which is probably good. Fair trade just makes the 3rd world farmers poorer.

When I was at Tyne Brewery working in Logistics, the company decided to put us all on a MAGIC course. Cost a bloody fortune in a hotel opposite Central Station. The magic within us, paradigms and think outside the box stuff. What a load of bollocks ! Should of stuck to the old system of having appr...

http://www.therealcuba.com/Page10.htm Quality Socialist Healthcare Sad but true. A voucher system like that proposed for schooling would be better than socialised production of medical goods and services. The fact is state run healthcare isn't socialised insurance at all, because it subsidises losse...

This is just a myth - no one can show the nitty gritty of the US health system, especially when there are apparent absurdities like US healthcare costing eight times than Australia despite having better labour productivity.

Really? All I am getting is urban myths and BS so far. Apparently the Guardian reports that US cancer treatment costs 8 times as much as Australia, despite better labour productivity and better medical technology? You guys are oblivious to this flagrant obtuseness or mendacity (take your pick). Insu...