[geeks] nVidia 8800GT for Apple Mac Pro

[Nadine Miller]

Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:59:22PM +0300, sammy ominsky wrote:
> 
>> My wife bought a nutritional supplement from the US that's not  
>> available here in the form she wanted.  It cost $50.  She got a notice  
>> today that she will have to pay 187 shekels to pick it up ($56.25).
> 
> That's because we have socialized medicine and you can buy all the
> nutritional suppliments they say you need at a discount from your HMO.
> 
> If she wants something that's covered here in a form they don't cover it, it's 
> a considered a luxury item and taxed as such. :-(
> 
> At one time you could buy extra insurance from one of the HMO's that
> covered any drug sold in the U.S. it was about $15 a month for a family.
> Since the other HMO's did not cover it, they made it illegal. Their rational
> was that 20% of the population could not afford the extra money so it was
> not fair. 
> 
> I could not understand it, it would have been cheaper in the long run to 
> have the state pay the extra $15 a month for 20% of the population than have
> 100% of the people that need drugs not covered here run up big bills for
> alternative treatment.

I see that the special "governmental logic" is not limited to the United 
States.

=Nadine=