A good underwear name brand, too.

The real difference is that gherkins are a lot smaller than the typical pickle (my new band name)

Sauerkraut and olives are also both very common, but most people don't think of them as being pickled.

Pig's feet and eggs also both exist, but are definitely uncommon.

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It is speculated the US govt has the ability to break eliptic curve based cryptography algos by knowing the "magic number"

Additionally, many sessions are logged and stored in a data center in Utah. No one really knows the extent of the logging but it's reasonable to assume noteworthy traffic is stored and if an insecure protocol is used it is decrypted and read.

Then there's always the equation group, those guys are scary good and who knows what sorts of ins they have to systems bypassing the need to sniff sessions to begin with!

https://youtu.be/NF1pwjL9-DE https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_Group

Just wait til you learn the French word for them

In Aus we call them gherkins. We use the pickle terminology only in specific preparations like when it's been sliced and goes on a burger. I suppose because in culinary terms, the specific flavour of the vegetable being pickled isn't really important in that case. You aren't buying the burger for the pickle, no matter what kind of pickle it is. What's important is that some kind of tang and acidity is present, like what any pickled vegetable would provide.

Edit: I was also something like 43 when I realized the name " tater tots" came from " tater", like potato. And tots meaning small. I swear I'm not an idiot.

Universal Healthcare ideally means that everyone who lives in a particular place has guaranteed access to healthcare regardless of their ability to pay for it. The government might provide it directly (The UK, Canada) it might be provided by private providers paid for through tax money and/or mandatory health savings(Singapore), it might be mandatory health insurance with government paying for lower income coverage (Germany, Switzerland and the intent of the US ACA). In these programs the government or related entities usually set prices for care and meds to keep it affordable so that money is not a barrier to access.

A non Universal Healthcare system means that access to healthcare is not guaranteed. For example, in the current US system, only very low income people or people 65 and over have guaranteed access to healthcare through Medicaid and Medicare, which are funded by the government by money taken in the form of taxes. Everyone else either needs to get health insurance through an employer, get insurance on their own (the Feds do offer financial help if you use their marketplace) or pay cash whenever they need to use healthcare services. We can argue that everyone has “access” to healthcare in the US, but in reality, access is dependent on ability to pay -even if one has a health insurance plan. High premiums, deductibles, copays, co-insurance and the lack of price limits on services and medicine means that many people simply can’t use healthcare services because they don’t have the money to pay.

First off, thank you for the reply.

Second off, I am not saying you are wrong.

But what I would like to point out is that without doing any deep searching I found three different news stories about Canada, Britain, and Ireland where there are prolonged wait times for diagnostic procedures, like MRIs. And diagnotic procedures are required to diagnose (or confirm diagnosis) so that treatment can be identified. Waiting three months for an MRI means you have to wait an extra three months before you get that knee operation.

"In March, the Saskatchewan Ministry of Health reported patients waited an average of 105 days for an MRI."

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/08/10/news/wait-time-mris-imaging-services-have-canadian-paying-their-pain

"Before the pandemic, Canadians were waiting an average of 89 days for MRI imaging, according to CAR’s 2022 pre-budget consultations report. This is far longer than the 30-day wait time recommended by the Canadian Wait Time Alliance, an organization focused on identifying the longest medically acceptable amount of time a patient should wait before receiving treatment.

Come 2022, the Conference Board of Canada estimates the average wait time for an MRI will rise to 133 days. "

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/08/10/wait-time-for-mris-imaging-services-have-canadians-paying-for-their-pain.html

"NHS patients are waiting more than three months for tests including MRIs, colonoscopies and heart scans, with overall waiting lists doubling in some parts of England."

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/aug/17/almost-124000-patients-waiting-more-than-three-months-for-nhs-tests-in-england

"The average wait for a brain MRI through the public system is 126 days, the report points out, while private patients wait just six days."

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/public-patient-waits-120-days-more-than-private-one-for-brain-scan-1.4073560

My understanding is that gherkins are a type of pickle but yeah it probably is used generically

This is the correct answer 👏🤣

I don’t understand why you think those things are mutually exclusive

It's "explain it like I am five," not "provide me with the various national blueprints that the US could adopt."

I am aware not every other nation adopts a single payer system, or adopts a single payer that outlaws private healthcare at the same time. But for someone who has no fucking clue what any of that means, I feel I provided I decent starting point.

You know how the government spends trillions for the military to "protect" you? Imagine that also included medical care for you.

Gerkins?

Damn, u beat my score my 7!

It’s not that simple.

In Australia, for example, there are many private providers but we have a system called Medicare under which those private providers service the general public at agreed rates that will be paid by the government.

The private providers can also provide other services at private rates, but people have the choice whether to use “public” providers or private providers.

Though a Pope gave permission for a large part of it to be demolished to construct a huge Palace for his nephew (Palazzo della Cancelleria).

Nepotism vs martyrdom - no competition!

Because, then I wouldn't have made it 40 years without realizing that pickles were pickled cucumbers. You've got to leave some joy of discovery for people.

It's interesting to note that spending on healthcare is lower per capita in Canada, for example, vs. the US, with health outcomes such as infant mortality and life expectancy being better.

Universal healthcare is usually supplemented by a private health system.

If it will take too long to get the surgery you want, you have the option to pay for it with a private provider or to wait for a public provider to do it for free.

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Long ago, the word “pickle” was widely understood to mean any food that had been preserved by using that method. It wasn’t specific to cucumbers. But over the generations, it became synonymous with pickled cucumbers.

Ever notice that universal road maintenance still has lots of roads with potholes?

Well, the road maintenance crew cannot get to all of the roads, there is a limit to how many manhours of labor they have, and also of the necessary materials (asphalt, tar, etc.) and equipment they have available.

And just like they have to decide which roads get fixed and which ones have to wait, universal healthcare has this exact same issue.