For a long time the NHS had a rule that if you augmented NHS treatment with private treatment, you had to get the lot privately. In a pure government run system, paying for treatment yourself is not allowed.Īre there any such systems in the Western world? I'm not aware of any.

Sorry for perpetuating this off-topic thread (remaining relevance to patents: basically nil). Posted 14:23 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)

There are people in there that ACTUALLY BELIEVE that the problem isn't that the patent system is terrible, but the fact that everybody else in the world is not forced to run under the same system. The government is destroying technological progress, destroying the profitability of competitive corporations, and strangling innovation through it's use of laws the government says is designed to promote progress, increase profits, and artificially boost the rate of innovation. This sort of thing does not fill me with much confidence. So far, at least in the USA, the best solution they have come up with so far to reduce the price of health care and provide universal coverage is 'Make it illegal not to buy health insurance'. It means that there is no possible solution for the plight we are in right now. then all I can say that we are well and truly screwed because the governments, essentially all governments and especially the USA one, are ran by either evil men and/or incompetent morons. Unfortunately if it Is true that certain essential services like 'health care' and other tasks can only be properly done by government. Ultimately, Zeeple Dome only seemed fun for those who revel in random chaos, as getting your alien where you want them to be is an unwieldy process.This is extremely unclear if this is absolutely true or not. It surprisingly works well using a smartphone as a controller, though like Split the Room, this is not very streamer-friendly. Players will fling them towards enemy aliens, as they bounce around the stage like pinballs. One to six players will control their own little alien using their smart device, pulling the center of a circle to control the trajectory to launch their little alien friend. It's more action-oriented than any Jackbox game that I remember, depicting a dangerous, barbaric, and somehow adorable intergalactic competition. While Zeeple Dome is a largely experimental game for the series, it isn't one that I'm particularly hoping to see repeated in future packs. 'There isn't too much to Mad Verse City, and frankly, it doesn't need that much-it's so easy to create something hilarious during every turn of this game.' Plus, listening to the text-to-speech from these robots reciting your stupid verses is just objectively funny every time. There isn't too much to Mad Verse City, and frankly, it doesn't need that much-it's so easy to create something hilarious during every turn of this game.

Players are opposed against each other one-on-one, with the others voting on which player had, ahem, the sickest and dopest rhymes. The only one that could really mess you up is yourself if you write yourself into a corner with a challenging word. Three to eight players control what are basically Transformers competing in rap battles: you'll be given a prompt to provide a single word, that word then being thrown into a rap lyric it will then be up to you to write a second lyric that rhymes. I fully expected Mad Verse City to be the marquee title of this compilation, and I certainly wasn't disappointed. Needless to say, Split the Room, therefore, is better with more people, and it definitely is less effective as a streaming game.

The new and amplified 'Jack Attack' is where things go awry, making players choose one or several multiple choices for a prompt in a format that feels more baffling than tense and rewarding. Perhaps a faltering player will be given the option to 'screw' a fellow player during the next question, hampering their progress by say, making them scroll through a long and tedious terms-of-service agreement before they can respond to a trivia question. One to eight players will be thrown various questions often presented in an off-color fashion, with various wrenches thrown in during gameplay. The so-called 'irreverent' trivia game comes across more as obnoxious and confusing rather than compelling, thrilling, and competitive. Perhaps this is blasphemy to say when reviewing a Jackbox game, but I was never particularly fond of You Don't Know Jack in the first place. While none of these games particularly fall apart, some of them are not as sustainable as you'd like them to be, considering the creativity of some of these game concepts. It all looks charming and quite promising, actually, but even the weaker games in the fourth game looked just as inviting.

Patently stupid game