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In Australia we have pretty good public health care. IDK what “universal healthcare” is exactly but everyone gets treated for free for most things.

We also have private health insurance. The relationship between the public and private systems is complex but the main difference for most people is wait times.

I know someone with a back injury that causes constant pain, they manage it with prescribed opiates. The problem is it’s not life-threatening so they’re not a priority for triage. They’re about 1 year through a 4 year wait. If they had private insurance they could probably have the surgery in a few months.

Weirdly, they could start a private health insurance policy, serve the 1 year exclusion for pre-existing conditions, and get their back fixed - I don’t know them well enough to ask why they don’t do that. Anyway.

There’s also a problem in my state where the hospital system is getting “clogged up” with people who should be in aged care facilities and so on. If you have a car accident and break your leg, if you don’t have private health insurance an ambulance will take you to the nearest public hospital. In some cases there’s a queue of ambulances parked up outside. An ER doctor will still come and check on you, just to make sure you’re not dying. This wouldn’t be a problem if you had private health insurance and were taken to a private hospital.

That said, there’s no private hospital within 400km of where I live. I have private health insurance but I can of course still go to the public ER. I don’t have anything bad to say about them. They’re great really and I’ve never had to wait an unreasonable amount of time.

That said, the cost is no where near what others are saying it costs in the US. We pay $400 AUD a month for our whole family, but that includes a lot of extra non-hospital stuff like dental and glasses. That works out to about 3% or 4% of an average family income.

I wouldn’t expect anything else from a Trump Policy - everything he does is to feather the nests of his wealthy supporters. I guarantee this trump-care policy was suggested and supported by health insurers.

Sooo… you’ve replied to the same comment you said you had incorrectly replied to.

If you know why the rules exist then you know when they can be disregarded.

I dont really think “brands” are very meaningful.

You’re welcome to your own definition.

Whether you’re configuring a docker container running on a server in your basement or on a VPS the issues you encounter are going to be much the same. The definition of self-hosted isn’t really relevant.

If you want to exclude people running services on rented hardware that just seems dumb.

IDK what’s happened to you or why your post got removed.

Obviously “self-hosting” as a term is broad and subjective.

IMO this community discusses hosting services in an environment where you’re responsible for installing, configuring, and maintaining your own stuff.

A purist might argue that self-hosting doesn’t include services residing on a VPS, but what’s the point of excluding those discussions from this community? In practical terms the nature of the activity is the same.

My wild supposition: inbreeding.

It’s known to cause congenital defects, particularly to the lower jaw.