Liberal journalists are all bending over backwards and tripping over themselves to prove how liberal they are. They're being played like a cheap crank activated organ.
Other courses probably use a DIFFERENT overpriced text book.
$180? Are they fucking insane? That's worse than pharmaceutical prices. At least cancer miracle drugs have the excuse that they have to go through expensive FDA trials and most of them don't make it on the market.
This is not a new subject. The treatment is probably not original. The "R&D cost" is probably no worse than a similar book that's not associated with college.
Quicktime always did more than just decode video. It's also a sort of programming environment. For people that bother to use it, it can be very slick. It's like having all of the nonsense that you get on DVDs but in your MP4 file.
Each of these "grave" threats are development platforms. So you have to deal with "bad programs" and not just bad data.
...if you are doing that then chances are that your box is being managed by someone else and they are using a 3rd party tool that acts like a Linux package manager (or they should be).
I think the last trailer I cared about on Apple.com was the one for Phantom Menace. No one makes their online video content dependent on Apple these days. Most stuff is a link to Youtube.
Adobe is the far bigger problem really.
It's actually likely to be installed and used. It won't just be lingering there on the disk waiting for that obscure app that depends on it.
You know how it goes: Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
AV scanners on Android would be for Trojans intentionally placed in things you buy. It doesn't fit the conventional profile of malware and certainly isn't comparable to the Windows situation.
The virus scanners that Linux and MacOS have are to clean WINDOWS viruses.
There's a good chance that they just wanted it for data mining. There are some interesting relationships that you could probably infer from all of that patient data.
Also plenty of juicy personal information is probably in there. It's likely an identity thief's wet dream.
"Proprietary information" of the insurance company is probably less interesting.
No we don't. Do you have personal experience? I do. You idiots don't even know the first thing about medical bills and you think you're qualified to comment on critical public policy.
To paraphrase Disraeli, the numbers lie. They tell whatever narrative the narrator wants to spin. In the case of liberal reporters, it's the chicken little version of the American health care system.
My own "big procedure" ended up being %25 of what the journalist class says it should be.
Any time I see numbers, or stats, or rankings and I have any personal firsthand experience, it turns out to be bullshit.
You're just being led around by the nose by the news media and twits with a political agenda.
Medicaid isn't exactly "insurance". It's the option of last resort if you are completely desperate. I would personally avoid it like the plague. Too many patient horror stories.
Medicaid doesn't pay doctors squat. They actively avoid it. It's like the worlds worst HMO but even worse. There are tighter restrictions on expensive drugs and procedures.
Medicaid, like the VA are why you DON'T want American socialized medicine.
Fortune favors the prepared. There are lots of people that could be prepared but American consumer culture discourages it. If you don't buy twice as much house as you actually need, you're seen as a subversive (no joke).
So plenty of people that could tolerate a catastrophe can't.
People are too cheap to spend $7 on the most well trained members of society but will blow a lot more than that on other useless crap. We've been conditioned to think that our best and brightest should work for free.
It's disgusting really.
Even those that can't hold enough back for a rainy day still can afford doctors, they just choose to spend their money on other things.
Prior to Obamacare, getting individual coverage was not a problem. The only reason I am still not on the individual plan that I had 10 years ago is because Obamacare killed it. It was always better and cheaper than any "corporate" plan I ever had.
One of the few useful things Obamacare did was the "pre-existing condition" problem. However, I would not have to worry about changing health plans if not for Obamacare to begin with.
Obamacare has not made insurance more affordable, not even for "low paid working stiffs". It hasn't lowered deductibles and it still allows for crummy HMO plans like what Walter White had on Breaking Bad.
It also didn't eliminate the games that employers play with changing plans all the time and doing so mid year so that you have to pay a 2nd deductible.
Ironically enough, the company that collected my premiums all of those years wasn't the one to pay for my transplant. Some other company did. That can't be healthy.
I know a number of international patients and I know what does and doesn't get covered. I also know people personally including a Canadian friend who was killed by Canadian medicine by lackluster diagnostic procedures when he was first diagnosed with cancer. They completely dropped the ball because they didn't bother to be thorough.
For all the "saving money cutting out of the middle man" you think you people could be a little less stingy with the testing, especially when it's something serious like cancer.
> We shouldn't have to. We already spend twice as much per capita on health care than any other country,
No we don't. That's just media propaganda.
"Quality" is already fine and probably superior. If you think we're going to eliminate the cost of insurance premiums without replacing it with something then you're living in an innumerate fantasy land.
Well, we are talking about goods and services here. Those guys deserve to get PAID and paid well. They should be able to fully exploit the capitalist system for all the work they put in. The same goes for genuine innovators in Big Pharma.
The issue of "cost" is easy to distort since billing rates and actual reimbursement rates vary significantly.
Being able to "bribe" someone for a better outcome is NOT a bad thing.
We would have to seriously jack up the tax rate in order to pay for something like that. Even then, rationing is likely as it occurs in Canada and Europe. That even happens to a certain degree even in the US already with what public options we already have.
There is no free lunch. All Europe does is play the role of nanny and take all of your money so you can't waste it on overpriced consumer goods.
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It depends on the clergy really. Some go out of their way to avoid reason.
Yup. I am in favor of bullying?
Thought you could rhetorically bully me? Think again.
"Bullying" just comes along with the territory.
For genuine crimes, there's the FBI. For anything else, just grow a pair or use 80s grade filtering technology.
Rap. Public Enemy and Rage Against the Machine.
I don't anything else modern comes close to being good protest music.
Liberal journalists are all bending over backwards and tripping over themselves to prove how liberal they are. They're being played like a cheap crank activated organ.
That's no big surprise. Europe never had any real comittment to freedom of speech, or political freedom either for that matter.
I did. I call BS.
Austin may be a little Unionist but they aren't completely yellow. They are still Texans after all.
It's more likely that they just didn't want to bother and and the real screamers got their panties in a bunch.
Nah.
Other courses probably use a DIFFERENT overpriced text book.
$180? Are they fucking insane? That's worse than pharmaceutical prices. At least cancer miracle drugs have the excuse that they have to go through expensive FDA trials and most of them don't make it on the market.
This is not a new subject. The treatment is probably not original. The "R&D cost" is probably no worse than a similar book that's not associated with college.
Quicktime always did more than just decode video. It's also a sort of programming environment. For people that bother to use it, it can be very slick. It's like having all of the nonsense that you get on DVDs but in your MP4 file.
Each of these "grave" threats are development platforms. So you have to deal with "bad programs" and not just bad data.
Same problem as macro laden msword files.
...if you are doing that then chances are that your box is being managed by someone else and they are using a 3rd party tool that acts like a Linux package manager (or they should be).
I think the last trailer I cared about on Apple.com was the one for Phantom Menace. No one makes their online video content dependent on Apple these days. Most stuff is a link to Youtube.
Adobe is the far bigger problem really.
It's actually likely to be installed and used. It won't just be lingering there on the disk waiting for that obscure app that depends on it.
You know how it goes: Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
AV scanners on Android would be for Trojans intentionally placed in things you buy. It doesn't fit the conventional profile of malware and certainly isn't comparable to the Windows situation.
The virus scanners that Linux and MacOS have are to clean WINDOWS viruses.
There's a good chance that they just wanted it for data mining. There are some interesting relationships that you could probably infer from all of that patient data.
Also plenty of juicy personal information is probably in there. It's likely an identity thief's wet dream.
"Proprietary information" of the insurance company is probably less interesting.
I was talking about "bribing" the doctors, not the politicians.
Saavy people in communized countries often use bribes to get goods and services that they might not otherwise have access to.
Want a consult with the biggest most well regarded expert in the country? Just f*cking pay cash for it. Put it on a credit card if you have to.
Ask for a cash rate. You will likely find it less dire than you think.
Seriously? The "in network" doctors are in another city? Are you on crack? Even the worst HMOs I've ever seen are not THAT bad.
You're talking some batshit crazy nonsense that you must have gotten from the democrat version of a tea party website.
No we don't. Do you have personal experience? I do. You idiots don't even know the first thing about medical bills and you think you're qualified to comment on critical public policy.
To paraphrase Disraeli, the numbers lie. They tell whatever narrative the narrator wants to spin. In the case of liberal reporters, it's the chicken little version of the American health care system.
My own "big procedure" ended up being %25 of what the journalist class says it should be.
Any time I see numbers, or stats, or rankings and I have any personal firsthand experience, it turns out to be bullshit.
You're just being led around by the nose by the news media and twits with a political agenda.
Medicaid isn't exactly "insurance". It's the option of last resort if you are completely desperate. I would personally avoid it like the plague. Too many patient horror stories.
Medicaid doesn't pay doctors squat. They actively avoid it. It's like the worlds worst HMO but even worse. There are tighter restrictions on expensive drugs and procedures.
Medicaid, like the VA are why you DON'T want American socialized medicine.
Fortune favors the prepared. There are lots of people that could be prepared but American consumer culture discourages it. If you don't buy twice as much house as you actually need, you're seen as a subversive (no joke).
So plenty of people that could tolerate a catastrophe can't.
People are too cheap to spend $7 on the most well trained members of society but will blow a lot more than that on other useless crap. We've been conditioned to think that our best and brightest should work for free.
It's disgusting really.
Even those that can't hold enough back for a rainy day still can afford doctors, they just choose to spend their money on other things.
Prior to Obamacare, getting individual coverage was not a problem. The only reason I am still not on the individual plan that I had 10 years ago is because Obamacare killed it. It was always better and cheaper than any "corporate" plan I ever had.
One of the few useful things Obamacare did was the "pre-existing condition" problem. However, I would not have to worry about changing health plans if not for Obamacare to begin with.
Obamacare has not made insurance more affordable, not even for "low paid working stiffs". It hasn't lowered deductibles and it still allows for crummy HMO plans like what Walter White had on Breaking Bad.
It also didn't eliminate the games that employers play with changing plans all the time and doing so mid year so that you have to pay a 2nd deductible.
Ironically enough, the company that collected my premiums all of those years wasn't the one to pay for my transplant. Some other company did. That can't be healthy.
I know a number of international patients and I know what does and doesn't get covered. I also know people personally including a Canadian friend who was killed by Canadian medicine by lackluster diagnostic procedures when he was first diagnosed with cancer. They completely dropped the ball because they didn't bother to be thorough.
For all the "saving money cutting out of the middle man" you think you people could be a little less stingy with the testing, especially when it's something serious like cancer.
> We shouldn't have to. We already spend twice as much per capita on health care than any other country,
No we don't. That's just media propaganda.
"Quality" is already fine and probably superior. If you think we're going to eliminate the cost of insurance premiums without replacing it with something then you're living in an innumerate fantasy land.
You're like a bunch of Greeks.
Um... no.
My employer sponsored plan pays on average about 33% of what's actually billed.
It's like you people have never seen a medical bill ever.
"Plan discounts" are common and tend to vary depending on the type of procedure and provider.
It certainly looks odd and something you might want to identify before you put it in the garbage smasher.
Well, we are talking about goods and services here. Those guys deserve to get PAID and paid well. They should be able to fully exploit the capitalist system for all the work they put in. The same goes for genuine innovators in Big Pharma.
The issue of "cost" is easy to distort since billing rates and actual reimbursement rates vary significantly.
Being able to "bribe" someone for a better outcome is NOT a bad thing.
We would have to seriously jack up the tax rate in order to pay for something like that. Even then, rationing is likely as it occurs in Canada and Europe. That even happens to a certain degree even in the US already with what public options we already have.
There is no free lunch. All Europe does is play the role of nanny and take all of your money so you can't waste it on overpriced consumer goods.
Fine. We have enough stupid liberals that buy into the eurotrash hype machine.
Why don't you boycott American developed procedures and pharmaceuticals while you're at it (instead of just leeching).