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Something for nothing ?

Something for nothing ?

Posted Aug 24, 2012 2:47 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Something for nothing ? by Tester
Parent article: GUADEC: New funding models for open source software

US is kind of a exception among advanced western countries. Lots of them provide universal health care and it does scale.


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Something for nothing ?

Posted Aug 25, 2012 11:56 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Sure. None of them fund their universal healthcare entirely (or even mostly) via charitable donations though. There just aren't enough of them, and even if there were they aren't predictable enough. Healthcare capital investments are often huge and take years: you need to know the money *will* be there, before you start.

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