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*serves up Balso tonic*
The second elimination for the position of Chief Medical Officer is now open. This Trek Tuesday sees two alien physicians vie for position. Trill or Denobulan, who has the best skill set? Tell us on our RMB.
Why not? They already receive better everything else. What's the old phrase?--"You get what you pay for." Of course, that pre-supposes capitalism--and under non-capitalist systems it pre-supposes human greed--but that's a constant flaw because people have never managed to come up with an economic system that can't be manipulated by their own greed.
SWAT!!! ((🗞))
Gurkland, Zombie Penguins, Zany Zanes, Alta Sil, and 2 othersJezebel, and Sheikah Slate
My answer of course is, absolutely yes, the wording means that if there is better healthcare(even if higher priced) people cannot be allowed to use it, therefore everyone being equally miserable with the same lower standard of care. That's like saying people with greater ability to pay cannot buy Iphones so everyone equally stuck with low tier phones.
If you use money to pay for better private healthcare that means healthcare has an incentive to gets better and it's more accountable to the customer and reduce overcrowding, those that disagree with this question are socialists with zero sum mentality
My brain is simply too degraded and riddled with parasites to produce opinions on such matters, although I am of the general belief that the notion of “payment” should be abolished all together. Wouldn’t that make everything easier? It would make my life easier.
Gurkland and Zany Zanes
Should they? No, I don't think so. But do they already? Yes. The right amount of money can get you just about the best of anything. Do I think we can change that in any meaningful or worthwhile way? No, not really. Even before money, humans tend to reciprocate what others can do for them. The one who holds the food or other goods has the power to demand what they want. I think as long as everyone has access to at least adequate healthcare that's about the best we can really ask for.
In an ideal world though, you'd get the healthcare you need without regard for money at all.
Gurkland, Alta Sil, and Sheikah Slate
The weekend poetry contest has ended. 
Zany Zanes can pick a winner.
At this point, I should be awaiting to stand upon the top of the poetry pedestal.
Edit: Agh, 5 hours late. I'll get it next time...
Zany Zanes and Alta Sil
The bartender moans, the tiara on their head aggravating a horrible headache.
Alright, let's pass off this curse-...I mean, pick the winner.
Take a deep sigh of relief! You have been spared! I do love your rhymes here and wonderfully accurate depiction of our less than lovely kitchen atmosphere! Amazing work! Congratulations!
Love the rhyming! Your distinct and purposeful lack of clarification throughout the first two stanzas really captured the theme of keeping things in suspense! Congratulations! Let us know if you accept the curse or choose to inflict it upon your luckier fellow contestant!
Amazing! I love the imagery! Very poetic! Really rolls through your mind in a most pleasant manner! Congratulations!
The shadows slide the tiara to the winner and the bartender crashes for an afternoon nap.
Thank you, but I'm going to decline the horror honor of judging.
Hey, Grimm, wanna trade?
*Swipes The Grimm Reaper's Third Place trophy and runs into the basements to hide!*
Congrats Brock 
Alta Sil. Since Brocklandia has provided a bribe legitimate reason to not judge, you have the option of judging. Let us know.
Zany Zanes and Alta Sil
Zany Zanes and Alta Sil
The bartender watches quietly while wiping down the counter and the shadows set out a couple bowls of brains for the bars hardworking corpse cleanup crew.
May want to set Ratfink in the back, out of Cheffy's sight at least for a little while. Just in case our resident rodent reappears when he realizes the world didn't actually end.
Is quality education a right of all people?
Some sake, please!
*Takes a deep sigh of relief, revels in felicity, then sorrowfully takes it back upon Brocky’s decline*
Life truly never lifts you up without dragging you back down. Anyway, onto the contest!
The Olympics are coming up quite soon, however they unfortunately don’t include competitive poetry writing as a valid activity. I think it would be an absolute thrill to see contestants seated in a circle, furiously scribbling away on a piece of paper. And to those who might say such an event hardly requires any athleticism, I counter with the fact that such intense writing would no doubt require extraordinary fine motor skills and tolerance to wrist pain.
So, I want to see poems about countries! Whether it be your own country or another, whether it’s a praise, lament, or commentary, or any other type of feeling, any poem vaguely mentioning some country, or region of some country, will be considered! No form required. Have fun!
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