| fatslob-:O said: I very much am being serious once we consider that anybody with unlimited data plans will get speed caps in specific times of day either way because there's not enough capacity in the network to begin with ... The internet is not an equal place and never will be because traffic and connections are not on even grounds between content providers ... (a garage startup can't match up to bigwigs like Amazon and most sites don't even get the same total bandwidth in comparison to video streaming which hogs up the vast portion of data) "Net neutrality" never existed ... |
The difference is... That AT&T scheme will apply to ALL video on their network. The Netflix issue was just discrimination against Netflix.
Not even remotely the same.
AT&T will also be giving consumers the ability to turn off that data-saving feature as well, which was mentioned in that link you provided.
Now the other issue is your internet providers blatant false advertising.
If you advertise your internet packages as Unlimited, it damn well should be unlimited.
Australia had a similar issue to that once before where Internet connections were sold as unlimited... But actually had caps which then introduced throttling once a limit was reached. - The Government of course stepped in and applied some new industry regulation to resolve that issue.
See here: https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/optus-unlimited-advertisements-declared-misleading-and-deceptive
Your Government is slow to act and should take the same course of action against providers who are also falsely advertising packages.
There are no excuses, it's anti-consumer.
Stop the unlimited internet lies... Don't introduce Micro-transactions for Internet connections... And your telecommunications industry would be far better off... Especially for consumers.
| fatslob-:O said: Nobel prizes are skewed towards smaller countries, R&D is the better indicator since it considers ALL contributions ... Americans are not paying for higher quality of care or coverage, they're paying to get research results and for the best equipment/tools at their disposal ... (this shows since the US boasts the best cancer survival rates, administers the most state of the art medicine/pharmaceuticals, has the most amount of MRI scanners per capita and better end of life/terminal care) |
The USA also has high cancer rates to begin with.. And some cancers your country actually falls short. - You do know that a prevention is better than a cure right? An amazing health system is one that educates people on that very fact.
Here you fall behind my country in Colorectal cancer 5-year survival rates:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_quality_of_healthcare
You are of course slightly ahead in breast cancer and lschemic Stroke, but are absolutely terrible in cervical cancer survival rates... Do poorer in heart attack and Hemorrhagic stroke.
Not seeing this "superiority" in your health system.
| fatslob-:O said: Sure they maybe getting less value in some measures but that also makes them more charitable in some ways since people with rare and expensive to treat diseases have a window of hope whereas a diagnosis in other nations means that it's more likely a death penalty to the unfortunate ... (If no one is willing to subsidize rare conditions then who will ?) People who argue that one can't put a price on life but why don't they argue the same for the amount of time that those have left ? |
Majority of measures you fall short. Not just "some".
As for charitable... We have a universal healthcare system, it's also a hybrid system, where those over a certain tax threshold can either pay for private insurance... Or pay more in tax to contribute to our healthcare system.... But it also means that everyone is covered, Homeless, mentally ill, veteran... Everyone, regardless of how much you do/don't earn. That is charitable.
And it works, the statistics don't lie... And even after all the evidence I have provided... If you continue to disagree with it, then there really is no point in continuing this discussion.
I mean. We even have more beds per-capita.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OECD_countries_by_hospital_beds
And higher life expectancy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
You can't make this stuff up. Your system is expensive, over priced and under delivers.
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