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Re: Scams

PostPosted: Sat Jun 13, 2015 7:36 am
by desertrat
surfsteve wrote:I see!. So big scams like the health care industry are beyond the scope of your thinking; or are you just so disturbed by them that you'd rather bury them somewhere like an Ostrich burring his head in the sand in time of danger in an attempt to avoid reality?

Scams are intentional attempts to deceive. The health care industry is a different beast entirely. Health insurance might be a rip off, but it's not really a scam. The politics that goes on behind the scenes might be corrupt, but it's not a scam. I think your conceptualization is the problem and it is you that needs to change the "scope of your thinking" or lack thereof. There are major problems with the health care industry as it exists in the USA, but attempting to categorize it as some kind of scam is an obvious square-peg-round-hole kind of mistake.

Re: Scams

PostPosted: Sat Jun 13, 2015 9:22 am
by surfsteve
I disagree.

Re: Scams

PostPosted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 8:36 pm
by a2z
desertrat wrote:
surfsteve wrote:I see!. So big scams like the health care industry are beyond the scope of your thinking; or are you just so disturbed by them that you'd rather bury them somewhere like an Ostrich burring his head in the sand in time of danger in an attempt to avoid reality?

Scams are intentional attempts to deceive. The health care industry is a different beast entirely. Health insurance might be a rip off, but it's not really a scam. The politics that goes on behind the scenes might be corrupt, but it's not a scam. I think your conceptualization is the problem and it is you that needs to change the "scope of your thinking" or lack thereof. There are major problems with the health care industry as it exists in the USA, but attempting to categorize it as some kind of scam is an obvious square-peg-round-hole kind of mistake.

There are medical scams, but they exist outside of the health care industry.

Re: Scams

PostPosted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 7:10 am
by surfsteve
So if one doctor were charging twenty dollars or more for an aspirin it's a scam but when all of them do it together it's-; what are we supposed to call it then?

Re: Scams

PostPosted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 4:11 pm
by MojaveMike
surfsteve wrote:I see!. So big scams like the health care industry are beyond the scope of your thinking; or are you just so disturbed by them that you'd rather bury them somewhere like an Ostrich burring his head in the sand in time of danger in an attempt to avoid reality?

So if one doctor were charging twenty dollars or more for an aspirin it's a scam but when all of them do it together it's-; what are we supposed to call it then?

Not every ripoff is a scam. Deception is a necessary ingredient of a scam. Otherwise, it's just a ripoff.

Re: Scams

PostPosted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 8:24 pm
by surfsteve
MojaveMike wrote:Not every ripoff is a scam. Deception is a necessary ingredient of a scam. Otherwise, it's just a ripoff.


By deception you mean like, "If you like your plan you can keep it"?

At least we agree on something!

Re: Scams

PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 8:54 am
by wildrose
surfsteve wrote:
MojaveMike wrote:Not every ripoff is a scam. Deception is a necessary ingredient of a scam. Otherwise, it's just a ripoff.


By deception you mean like, "If you like your plan you can keep it"?

At least we agree on something!

When "If you like your plan you can keep it" was promised I believe it was the intent of those making the promise to keep their promise. However, other members of the government conspired to make it impossible to keep that promise. So, I'd say that's an example of POLITICS and not an actual SCAM.

Re: Scams

PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 10:30 am
by surfsteve

Re: Scams

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 7:55 am
by twister
surfsteve wrote:

It's only a lie if you have NO INTENTION of keeping your promise when you make your promise. If circumstances arise which make it impossible to keep your promise, then that's an entirely different thing.

Re: Scams

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 3:27 pm
by surfsteve
twister wrote:It's only a lie if you have NO INTENTION of keeping your promise when you make your promise. If circumstances arise which make it impossible to keep your promise, then that's an entirely different thing.


Agreed. And?