US heathcare as an average is mediocre-bad for the standards of a Western country, but if you pay for it you can get the best of the best.
It's just that the average person that needs to visit the hospital can't afford those more expensive clinics, and those even lower in the economic picking order get stuck in the clinics that we in Europe consider pitiful.

V. Kemp claims the best healthcare is even accesible to middle-income Americans if they prioritize it. I do not think he is aware of the costs of the treatment of a simple bone fracture when there is no coverage by insurancies, let alone therapies for more chronic disorders: prioritizing those would mean that people will not be able to afford a lot of other things they'd like and may even have to change their lifestyle, effectively downgrading them from middle-class to lower-class. You'll have middle-income Americans with sub-middle living standards.

V. Kemp goes on to claim that government regulation is what is making healthcare so much more expensive. I believe a larger part of these costs come from the sue-anything-and-everything mentality: because of this many doctors, not only those working in public facilities but also those in private practices, will up the prices of treatments just to create a pool of money that they can fall back on when/if they get hit with a large lawsuit.

Another large stress on the medical sector that drives up the prices is the amount of healthcare for morbidly obese and diseases/syndromes associated with adiposity, salt-rich diets (such as hypertension). The average American lifestyle is just not that healthy, and that causes an increase in the medical bills as compared to other, "healthier" nations.
Then there is the point of the private practices that over above-average care for above-average prices. These create a flow of good doctors away from more public and cheaper facilities to these private practices, effectively creating a system where there are 2 extremes in the healthcare: good & expensive vs cheap & mediocre/bad.

For average-poor people to be able to get decent care, there needs to be a change in the system: either improvement of the "bad" clinics or making the "good" clinics more accessible for the average-poor people (a change in lifestyle for a majority of Americans being unlikely).
An example of the latter is a medcare program such as Obamacare.
I believe it is too soon as of now to see whether Obamacare is effective (and exactly how effective and whether it justifies the costs). I think what we're seeing now is a big initial increase in the costs because the system needed to be overhauled for this new system to be implemented, and I expect these costs to drop in the coming years. It's an investment that may pay off in the future. Leave it alone and check again in 5 years.

you're a tad misinformed or just late on posting your pvc (judging by the nw's you posted as current rankings), Amspir, 59 vs 64 war has been over for a bit and 53 has cancelled on 64.

Is stopping lifesupport, when someone is not leading anything resembling a life anylonger, murder?
Or is it, as your quote states, "shortening" once life.

But yes, we practice euthanasia in our clinics. We did it 20 years ago, we still do it today (although with a shitton of regulations). You'll have to bet those physicians who shortened the lifes of patients without their explicit request had to get through a bureaucratic maze before they could even release a patient from his suffering. Do note that an explicit request in this case means to have a documented request, recorded in presence of a certain official (i.e. solicitor). If the patient just says "I'd like to end my life", that does not constitute as an explicite request.

Still, the numbers Mr Santorum used were either outdated or falsified, as you yourself found a much smaller number.
Other points he notes as facts, such as elderly wearing bracelets saying "do not euthanize me" (there are however bracelets that say "do not reanimate me"), elderly evading dutch hospitals, those are all blatant lies.

So... in order to not make us break nap on you, you force us in a position where one of the few possibilities for a good lookout is a nap void/break? (although I'm against it, personally)

Render, you have broken/voided naps in the past and shown some of the most dishonorable behaviour (not just nap-wise, also regarding farming and attacking lowly fams).
Now you have even stepped as low as the retake-delete move in SD.

Do not act like you're a saint, and stop posting here.

from: 8    Computerparts! (5867) [4,26]    917    9033250    36674
to: 8    Computerparts! (5867) [4,26]    957    9003595    36779
drop: 29 655 (0.3%)

from: 11    Arcana 11 JUSTICE (4all) (5854) [10,8]    972    5373384    37805
to: 11    Arcana 11 JUSTICE (4all) (5854) [10,8]    932    4818651    37897
drop: 554 733 (10.3%)

from:Fleet Admiral    CPU    graphics card    2130073gc    102    [ONLINE]
to:Fleet Admiral    CPU    graphics card    1678358gc    116    [ONLINE]
drop: 451 715 (21.2%)

from:Desktop     NeaNap     1305544gc    24    [ONLINE]
to:    Desktop    NeaNap    1295065gc    25    [ONLINE]
drop: 10 479 (0.8%)

vs

from:Fleet Admiral    Hanged Man    Camaar    755694gc    45    [ONLINE]
to: Fleet Admiral    Hanged Man    Camaar    388468gc    35    [ONLINE]
drop: 367 226 (48.6%)

seems Alundra lost just about all her figs, and Flashy disbanded to hit bankers after his ridiculous overjump .

8    Computerparts! (5867) [4,26]    917    9033250    36674
11    Arcana 11 JUSTICE (4all) (5854) [10,8]    972    5373384    37805

Fleet Admiral    CPU    graphics card    2130073gc    102    [ONLINE]
Desktop     NeaNap     1305544gc    24    [ONLINE]

vs

Fleet Admiral    Hanged Man    Camaar    755694gc    45    [ONLINE]

right...

And how long ago is 1990? I'll let you know that nowadays the legislature around euthanasia is so complicated that even people who want to have it done, cannot have it done. People living like animals or vegetables with no positive outlook at all because someon in their family does not want to let go.

Lol I was debating posting this a few days ago.

from:1    [N64] The Superior Console (5864) [6,75]    1362    30636809    69843
to:1    [N64] The Superior Console (5864) [6,75]    1311    23854077    72480
down: 6 782 732 (22%)

from: 2    ~Skyrim~ (5859) [42,55]    1282    28471220    74245
to: 2    ~Skyrim~ (5859) [42,55]    1274    20777325    76779
down: 7 693 895 (27%)

from: Fleet Admiral    Zelda    Red Fire    12948865gc    91    [ONLINE]
to:Fleet Admiral    Zelda    Red Fire    9395807gc    95    
drop: 3 553 058 (27%)

from:     Pokemon Stadium    The Seed 2.0    4501114gc    100    [ONLINE]
to: Inactive    Pokemon Stadium    The Seed 2.0    2492819gc    80    [ONLINE]
drop: 2 008 295 (45%)

combined drop: 5 561 353 (32%)

vs.

from: Fleet Admiral    Solitude    The Dragonborn    11800978gc    78    [ONLINE]
to:Fleet Admiral    Solitude    The Dragonborn    5973347gc    69
drop: 5 827 631 (49%)

from:   Sahloknir    Talons of Death    2393062gc    108    [ONLINE]
to:     Sahloknir    Talons of Death    1095901gc    116    
drop: 1 297 161 (54%)

from: Paarthunax    Camaar    2036139gc    38    [ONLINE]
to:    Paarthunax    Camaar    1031836gc    44
drop: 1 004 303 (49%)

combined drop: 8 128 825 (50%)

Last night:
Rd has been hit heavily, and has now suffered quite a bit of losses. Still he is ahead (nw-wise) of all of Skyrim's attackers, be it slightly.
Paarthunax has begun losing more now that he is more involved again, and Arby3 (and others) rejumped to make his losses seem a tad less bad .

From this point on I expect a few more rejumps, so these stats will be a lot less accurate to determine fleet losses.

4 ticks into the war, the drops look like these:

from: 1    [N64] The Superior Console (5864) [6,75]    1362    30636809    69843
to: 1    [N64] The Superior Console (5864) [6,75]    1325    24516962    70523
drop: 6 119 847 (20%)

from: 2    ~Skyrim~ (5859) [42,55]    1282    28471220    74245
to: 2    ~Skyrim~ (5859) [42,55]    1280    20852886    74882
drop: 7 618 334 (27%)

from: Fleet Admiral    Zelda    Red Fire    12948865gc    91    [ONLINE]
to: Fleet Admiral    Zelda    Red Fire    9339910gc    90
drop: 3 608 955 (28%)

from:    Pokemon Stadium    The Seed 2.0    4501114gc    100    [ONLINE]
to: Inactive    Pokemon Stadium    The Seed 2.0    3085013gc    93
drop: 1 416 101 (31%)

vs

from:Fleet Admiral    Solitude    The Dragonborn    11800978gc    78    [ONLINE]
to:Fleet Admiral    Solitude    The Dragonborn    5542827gc    80    [ONLINE]
drop: 6 258 151 (53%)

from:    Sahloknir    Talons of Death    2393062gc    108    [ONLINE]
to:      Sahloknir    Talons of Death    962487gc    111    [ONLINE]
drop: 1 430 575 (60%)

from:    Paarthunax    Camaar    2036139gc    38    [ONLINE]
to:     Paarthunax    Camaar    1351326gc    35    [ONLINE]
drop: 684 813 (34%)

RD (Pokemon Stadium) has been overtaken in the least-fleet-lost department by his teammate Lee (Zelda), who frankly just isn't losing anything due to his huge fleet . And with the three skyrim attackers concentrating on RD, it's not surprising.
On the other hand we see the Skyrim fam suffering heavy losses, aside from Spam (Paarthunax) who has managed to minimize his, even when his portals are being popped left and right: most of his losses came from the first tick when his shares were being cleared. Arby3 (Sahloknir) has suffered the worst losses so far, having crashed droids onto RD after some miscommunication... aka "pulling a Flashy".