Why don't they ever ask why the high-tech and entrepreneurial ferment sweeping the world is almost entirely absent from Europe?

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And if you ask why, the insurance company will tell you, they don't want to pay for preventive health care because the patient might switch to a different company and they will lose the benefit of the investment in prevention.

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Now, some people ask, well, why don't you just pass that and forget everything else?

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He believes he's capable of scoring 20 goals or more in a full, 82-game season, he said, and he sometimes will ask himself, 'If I'm so good in the shootout, why don't I score more during 5-on-5 play?

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