Slowing an increase over a period of years is also known as a decrease. I never said they cut their costs in half, I said they cost half what the U.S. pays now. If you actually looked at the pretty graphs and charts in the links I gave you, it would be obvious. Those are in terms of GDP by the way, so differences in currency value are already factored out. They are modern western countries, and all somewhat left of the U.S. so it's bizarre that you would claim U.S. regulations are making all that difference.
I have no idea why you are determined to sacrifice yourself for the sake of GOP ideology, but it has become apparent you can't be convinced of the facts because you fervently want to believe something else. I might as well try to convince a born-again fundamentalist to join me in celebration of Darwin's birthday. I can tell because when confronted with facts and figures, you fell back to the previous argument/talking point even though it was already shot down, as if you have forgotten already.
So it seems if we want to spread that more fairly around the western world, we will need to similarly clamp down on prices. It's the only way to make the rest of the world pay their fair share.
So it's just a coincidence that EVERY country with a single payer system spends less than the U.S. on healthcare per capita than the U.S.?
When you pull the door and it doesn't open, do you keep pulling or do you try pushing?
I see that health care costs are going up all over, but looking at Canada for example, the rise flattened out for a while when single payer came into effect. So even as costs went up, they went up slower with single payer. Of course, with an increasing population, increase in expendature is to be expected. The U.S. could use slower increases in expenditure for a while.
So let's look at a larger sample. Indeed, it's going up for everyone, but nowhere is it going up faster than the U.S. and nowhere is it as expensive as the U.S. Can you explain why the U.S. would be a special case other than we are the one without a single payer system?
They say you get what you pay for, so the U.S. should be at the top of the charts for healthcare. OOOOps, or not.
Well, Americans must live longer and so cost more. Dang, wrong again.
Looks more like a fool and his money are soon parted.
Note that statins are for cholesterol, not high blood pressure.
Also, you have to consider the pharmacy. For example, it it's right next to a cancer clinic, it will probably fill a LOT of perfectly legit opoid prescriptions.
A real question though is how many of those opoid overdoses happened because users resorted to street drugs of unknown and poorly controlled strength rather than well regulated pharmaceuticals?
But before the DEA was neutered (somewhat), we had B. Ideally, we would legislate that the DEA behave more reasonably, but you can't legislate that.
It's great when a person can do OK with less opoids. Some can, some cant. Some surgeries leave more post-op pain than others. What we DON'T need though is cops that practice medicine without a license and decide who needs what without even seeing the patient first. Before the DEA was curbed, they didn't even demonstrate an understanding that it's natural for an oncologist or a pain specialist to prescribe more opoids than a pediatrician.
I have no idea what your pain tolerance is nor what surgeries you had. You probably have no idea how much GP's surgery hurts or what his pain tolerance is.
If you can figure out how to do option C, everyone with actual need gets what they need and recreational users get none, I'd love to see your proposal. But absent that, people who need painkillers getting what the need is VASTLY more important than cutting off people who abuse drugs.
That's kinda my point. It doesn't sound like X was the problem at all, it was the app itself that was screwed up. If you were married to that particular client-server architecture, Wayland DEFINITELY wouldn't help you since it doesn't do that at all.
Actually, you can by looking at comparable economies and/or by judging in terms of the country's GDP.
Note how those other countries spend less of their GDP on healthcare and how their populations last longer. Before you claim it's better eating habits, have a look at the U.K.
Honestly, no sane person honestly thinks any Western nation spends more on healthcare than the U.S. and no sane person honestly thinks health outcomes in the U.S. are even in the top ten.
It might do better if it was allowed to negotiate drug prices. Beyond that, I made clear I was speaking of OTHER COUNTRIES that have single payer. Does medicaid fit that description?
You say that like it's their fault. Think of the stock market as a big grid on the ground and a million chickens. Occasionally someone tosses in a handful of corn and occasionally someone blows and air horn. The chickens respond as chickens will.
You pick a square or two on the grid. At the end of the day, if your square has the most chickens on it, you win a prize.
It's a bit like no limits cow patty bingo for city folks. If you don't believe me, how come 3 guys making noise in the corner caused such a change in the market?
Periodically, the SEC makes a move to keep the market moving. The decision making process can be a bit confusing. Here's a helpful video.
Nope. Obama failing to hold out for single payer and settling for Romneycare is what cost you. Countries with actual single payer systems spend half or less per capita with better outcomes for all.
No doubt one of those crappy half duplex speakerphones that rather than doing real feedback control squelches if the ambient sound reaches a trigger level.
The whole Exercise part was probably lost while people realized they needed to be quiet and listen.
Well, actually sending out the emergency alert and people actually diving for cover is part of the real emergency too. The similarity to an actual emergency has stop at some point. I suggest that point be before it causes confusion and mass panic.
What TFA ACTUALLY said was that because the alert was on speakerphone, the operator did not here "EXERCISE" but did hear "this is not a drill", and so concluded it was not a drill (DUH).
So no, if it IS a drill, do not claim it is not unless you want a mass panic.
Look, we get that you're horrified that anyone in the Trump administration has made a total ass of himself, but denying facts and crying about it won't help.
Without appropriate figures including shipments to other pharmacies, it's hard to say much of anything about the situation. All we have is the total number of pills over a 10 year period.
The one thing I can say for sure is that the information appears to have been presented in a form to maximize sensationalism and minimize usefulness. That seems like a pretty good reason to be skeptical of the conclusion we are being lead ever so carefully to draw.
Now include the people living in unincorporated areas (so not counted as part of the town's population) for whom the town has the nearest to them pharmacy. Include that coal mining and other physically demanding work is quite common in West Virginia.
In many places, rural doesn't mean farms. It is more or less as dense as suburban areas but with no strip malls or corner stores. All of those people go into town for shopping, including the pharmacy.
Williamson is the county seat of the surrounding county with a population of 30,000. Suddenly, the numbers don't look that out of line, just sensationalistic.
There seems to be a lot of confusion. Staying home doesn't necessarily mean staying indoors. I telecommute and I hate the mall, but I like to go outside when I make a phone call and when the evenings are nice I go for a walk around the neighborhood.
I'm certainly not claiming that the teamsters have all the answers, just that their position is understandable. They have seen far enough to realize that some of those changes have to happen or they'll be living in poverty.
I would suggest that those who are retrained but don't end up working at UPS somewhere else should consider it a decent severance package. UPS should do the same. They could try that as a counter-offer. Ideally, the larger society would deal with it, but that's not who the Teamsters have leverage with. Perhaps UPS and the other carriers should lobby for that so they can have less union problems.
Personally, I'm in the free will camp. I was responding to someone who denies the existence of free will.
If people don't have free will, then the most effective way to stop crime is to make sure everyone's circumstances match those of people unlikely to commit crime.
Even if we do have free will, that might not be a bad approach. It's just that if we have suffering but not free will, punishment (as opposed to correction) is just inflicting suffering for the sake of it.
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Slowing an increase over a period of years is also known as a decrease. I never said they cut their costs in half, I said they cost half what the U.S. pays now. If you actually looked at the pretty graphs and charts in the links I gave you, it would be obvious. Those are in terms of GDP by the way, so differences in currency value are already factored out. They are modern western countries, and all somewhat left of the U.S. so it's bizarre that you would claim U.S. regulations are making all that difference.
I have no idea why you are determined to sacrifice yourself for the sake of GOP ideology, but it has become apparent you can't be convinced of the facts because you fervently want to believe something else. I might as well try to convince a born-again fundamentalist to join me in celebration of Darwin's birthday. I can tell because when confronted with facts and figures, you fell back to the previous argument/talking point even though it was already shot down, as if you have forgotten already.
So it seems if we want to spread that more fairly around the western world, we will need to similarly clamp down on prices. It's the only way to make the rest of the world pay their fair share.
So it's just a coincidence that EVERY country with a single payer system spends less than the U.S. on healthcare per capita than the U.S.?
When you pull the door and it doesn't open, do you keep pulling or do you try pushing?
I see that health care costs are going up all over, but looking at Canada for example, the rise flattened out for a while when single payer came into effect. So even as costs went up, they went up slower with single payer. Of course, with an increasing population, increase in expendature is to be expected. The U.S. could use slower increases in expenditure for a while.
So let's look at a larger sample. Indeed, it's going up for everyone, but nowhere is it going up faster than the U.S. and nowhere is it as expensive as the U.S. Can you explain why the U.S. would be a special case other than we are the one without a single payer system?
They say you get what you pay for, so the U.S. should be at the top of the charts for healthcare. OOOOps, or not.
Well, Americans must live longer and so cost more. Dang, wrong again.
Looks more like a fool and his money are soon parted.
Note that statins are for cholesterol, not high blood pressure.
Also, you have to consider the pharmacy. For example, it it's right next to a cancer clinic, it will probably fill a LOT of perfectly legit opoid prescriptions.
A real question though is how many of those opoid overdoses happened because users resorted to street drugs of unknown and poorly controlled strength rather than well regulated pharmaceuticals?
But before the DEA was neutered (somewhat), we had B. Ideally, we would legislate that the DEA behave more reasonably, but you can't legislate that.
It's great when a person can do OK with less opoids. Some can, some cant. Some surgeries leave more post-op pain than others. What we DON'T need though is cops that practice medicine without a license and decide who needs what without even seeing the patient first. Before the DEA was curbed, they didn't even demonstrate an understanding that it's natural for an oncologist or a pain specialist to prescribe more opoids than a pediatrician.
I have no idea what your pain tolerance is nor what surgeries you had. You probably have no idea how much GP's surgery hurts or what his pain tolerance is.
If you can figure out how to do option C, everyone with actual need gets what they need and recreational users get none, I'd love to see your proposal. But absent that, people who need painkillers getting what the need is VASTLY more important than cutting off people who abuse drugs.
That's kinda my point. It doesn't sound like X was the problem at all, it was the app itself that was screwed up. If you were married to that particular client-server architecture, Wayland DEFINITELY wouldn't help you since it doesn't do that at all.
Actually, you can by looking at comparable economies and/or by judging in terms of the country's GDP.
Note how those other countries spend less of their GDP on healthcare and how their populations last longer. Before you claim it's better eating habits, have a look at the U.K.
Honestly, no sane person honestly thinks any Western nation spends more on healthcare than the U.S. and no sane person honestly thinks health outcomes in the U.S. are even in the top ten.
It might do better if it was allowed to negotiate drug prices. Beyond that, I made clear I was speaking of OTHER COUNTRIES that have single payer. Does medicaid fit that description?
You say that like it's their fault. Think of the stock market as a big grid on the ground and a million chickens. Occasionally someone tosses in a handful of corn and occasionally someone blows and air horn. The chickens respond as chickens will.
You pick a square or two on the grid. At the end of the day, if your square has the most chickens on it, you win a prize.
It's a bit like no limits cow patty bingo for city folks. If you don't believe me, how come 3 guys making noise in the corner caused such a change in the market?
Periodically, the SEC makes a move to keep the market moving. The decision making process can be a bit confusing. Here's a helpful video.
The U.S. uses all three.
Nope. Obama failing to hold out for single payer and settling for Romneycare is what cost you. Countries with actual single payer systems spend half or less per capita with better outcomes for all.
No doubt one of those crappy half duplex speakerphones that rather than doing real feedback control squelches if the ambient sound reaches a trigger level.
The whole Exercise part was probably lost while people realized they needed to be quiet and listen.
Well, actually sending out the emergency alert and people actually diving for cover is part of the real emergency too. The similarity to an actual emergency has stop at some point. I suggest that point be before it causes confusion and mass panic.
What TFA ACTUALLY said was that because the alert was on speakerphone, the operator did not here "EXERCISE" but did hear "this is not a drill", and so concluded it was not a drill (DUH).
So no, if it IS a drill, do not claim it is not unless you want a mass panic.
They have been presented in abundance, you just don't seem willing/able to read them.
Look, we get that you're horrified that anyone in the Trump administration has made a total ass of himself, but denying facts and crying about it won't help.
Without appropriate figures including shipments to other pharmacies, it's hard to say much of anything about the situation. All we have is the total number of pills over a 10 year period.
The one thing I can say for sure is that the information appears to have been presented in a form to maximize sensationalism and minimize usefulness. That seems like a pretty good reason to be skeptical of the conclusion we are being lead ever so carefully to draw.
A typical prescription is one every three hours as needed, so 8/day/person.
Now include the people living in unincorporated areas (so not counted as part of the town's population) for whom the town has the nearest to them pharmacy. Include that coal mining and other physically demanding work is quite common in West Virginia.
In many places, rural doesn't mean farms. It is more or less as dense as suburban areas but with no strip malls or corner stores. All of those people go into town for shopping, including the pharmacy.
Williamson is the county seat of the surrounding county with a population of 30,000. Suddenly, the numbers don't look that out of line, just sensationalistic.
MPEG forgot the 1st law of extortion: Never demand more than it would cost to have you killed.
There seems to be a lot of confusion. Staying home doesn't necessarily mean staying indoors. I telecommute and I hate the mall, but I like to go outside when I make a phone call and when the evenings are nice I go for a walk around the neighborhood.
We should try it in the U.S.
I'm certainly not claiming that the teamsters have all the answers, just that their position is understandable. They have seen far enough to realize that some of those changes have to happen or they'll be living in poverty.
I would suggest that those who are retrained but don't end up working at UPS somewhere else should consider it a decent severance package. UPS should do the same. They could try that as a counter-offer. Ideally, the larger society would deal with it, but that's not who the Teamsters have leverage with. Perhaps UPS and the other carriers should lobby for that so they can have less union problems.
Only if we believe other animals are deterministic. Something anyone who has ever done a show involving animals will deny.
Personally, I'm in the free will camp. I was responding to someone who denies the existence of free will.
If people don't have free will, then the most effective way to stop crime is to make sure everyone's circumstances match those of people unlikely to commit crime.
Even if we do have free will, that might not be a bad approach. It's just that if we have suffering but not free will, punishment (as opposed to correction) is just inflicting suffering for the sake of it.