kipposhi

You smartie, just look at the Aircare program here. They looked for gases like sulphur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide from your car.

I am just using your wierd logic. You don't have a clue of what you are saying. You don't even understand the function of the modern government. Since you think anything that is not profitable should be privatized, like highways, Translink, education etc. Why stop at these? Why not do more, hahaha?

Enough have been said about your irrational way of thinking.
peter236 發表於 2010-2-9 12:30

You can go back to read my replies.  If you do not read them, it is meaningless for me to reply to any of your posts.

kipposhi

sometimes you cannot use school logic on operating a school.  In business, people want to make money; in another way, if there is no school board, there is no free school up to grade 12.  There will ...
myversa 發表於 2010-2-9 16:07

School is not free.  Taxpayers pay for it.  There is charity in the world.  A few decades ago, people in HK were so poor.  Many charities offered the affordable schooling service.

Top tier universities tell you the answer.  They have them own exams.  Moreover, there may be open exam like SAT and ACT in the US.  On the other hand, even the syllabus is set by school board, different teachers make exams with different difficulties.  Some are easier, some more difficult.  Students may still go to universities easier than some other.  In addition, it is very easy to ace in many provincial exams.  When there are so many students getting an easy A in some subjects like maths, chemistry, the exams sometimes cannot tell which student is better.  Are they still good exams?

Union issue is very true.

kipposhi

If you have more coverage, of course you pay more.  I don't see a problem with this.  If you just want a plan that covers hospital stays only, you could get some plan that has like a $20K deductible.

Your wsj articles have nothing to do with what I said.  In addition, individual market is a pretty small segment.
快樂牛郎 發表於 2010-2-9 16:29

I posted those wsj articles because I googled some sources showing that US citizens cannot buy health insurance across the state lines.  There are no health insurance in US covering inpatients only.

I am pretty sure there are many other reasons why premiums in HK are lower, other than paying them "separately".  Buying Inpatient and Outpatient coverage separately is like buying a monitor and computer hardware separately.  If you *only* need one of them, then you can save money by buying just one of them.  But that doesn't apply in the case of health insurance.  It makes no sense to buy an "outpatient only" plan because then you are not really insured against anything.

There are indeed other reasons why premiums in US are higher.  If you really want to know the reasons, why don't you find in yourself?  I am tired to find references and post it here.

I don't know who would buy the "outpatient" only.  But insurance companies offer it.

It's also pointless to compare two countries/regions when so many different factors could've contributed to the success and failure of each.

It is not pointless.  That passage tells you the similarities between places.  One of the important points is, HK has no natural resources but its GDP per capita has been growing.