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Apple To Face Challenge At WWDC
Amanda Callahan writes to tell us that Apple's upcoming WWDC could be quite a test for the Cupertino powerhouse. They will most likely be missing Steve Jobs for star-power and have extremely high expectations to meet in order to maintain their edge. Thankfully it looks like Jobs will be rejoining Apple later this month with a good prognosis after facing severe health issues. "The competition is now catching up. Palm, Google, Microsoft, Nokia and Research in Motion, maker of the BlackBerry, are all at varying stages of developing and introducing their own iPhone-like devices and software, along with easily accessible stores for the small programs known as applications, or apps, that run on those devices. In some cases, those companies are releasing a greater variety of phones, on more wireless carriers around the world, than Apple. To maintain its advantage, Apple must preserve the impression that it is far ahead of rivals when it comes to the capabilities and the 'cool' factor of its devices."
"f you have enough money in America (Steve Jobs-like money), you get the best healthcare and you get to live."
Arguably that's the same everywhere, since even national health care (e.g. the UK's NHS) can't afford the bleeding edge cancer treatments, for example. You have to fund those out of your own pocket if you want them.
Yes, but if a bleeding edge treatment is the only thing available which can keep you alive, you have to pay out of your own pocket to get it (if they're not prepared to pay for it)
What Will Dickheads Conceive? IDK.
No comprende? Let me type that a little slower for you...
No you don't. Not in Canada, anyway. They evaluate what treatment has the best success rate vs. the type of cancer you have, yes, which means you won't always be given the bleeding edge treatment, because if one has an 80% remission rate, why go for the treatment with no track record?
Not true. New cancer treatments are always in the pipeline, some of them promising. But you won't know the 5 & 10 year remission rate until you wait 5 & 10 years. That's a long time if you're facing death in 6 months.
In Ontario, there are new cancer treatments that aren't approved yet, so medicare won't pay for them. But you can pay for them out-of-pocket and have your oncologist administer them.
Coverage of different chemotherapy treatments dramatically in different provinces.
Also, in case you didn't know, like in most countries, the pharmaceutical industry gives large kickbacks (aka bribes) to oncologists in Canada.
There are a number of problems with your logic, but the biggest, most glaring one is that it isn't logic at all.
Also, I think 100 dollars a month is perfectly reasonable. Probably because I have a real job and that number doesn't even get noticed.