Of course. If you have contradictory first hand experience, then it's a lie. I personally know low paid working stiffs who were not helped by Obamacare.
Plans are still expensive. Even worthless plans are expensive. Deductibles are still high. Plans without high deductibles are astronomical.
Costs continue to rise for everyone getting to the point where you need to be "wealthy" to afford a plan at all anymore.
Moron. Get this through your thick skull. The ACA is corporate welfare for insurance companies. Anything that forces me to buy something from a corporation is not making people "pay their fair share".
A new "Obamacare Tax" would have made people "pay their fair" share. The Dems just had no balls to do things the right way so they end up with this corporate welfare monstrosity.
They did that despite ramming this through congress without any republican approval. If you are going to do something like that, you might as well do it right or something vaguely resembling right.
It's strange. If the Republicans are in the health insurance industry then why was it the Democrats passed a corporate welfare bill for insurance companies?
As far as the "drug price negotiation" bogey man goes, I would rather people like Clinton and Sanders didn't slay the golden goose. The parts of the industry that make new stuff create modern miracles and should be encouraged to keep on doing so.
Trying to "stiff doctors" and "stiff drug companies" is nothing to brag about. It's kind of sleazy really.
In the grand scheme of things, "overpaying" for new miracle drugs beats buying an extra aircraft carrier we don't even need.
No. That idea of reducing health care costs is yet another one of those lies told through statistics. The "rack rate" for some expensive procedure is X where the real cost a hospital will actually get paid is 1/2 or 1/3rd of that.
You can "save tons of money" just by changing the numbers you look at it.
You people are droning on about public policy and you really have no clue at all.
I see stupid people and they don't even know they're stupid.
No. The problem is that people will readily pay for any number of luxuries but they have somehow gotten it into the heads that they should never have to pay for medical costs.
Even people that should know better revel in the idea of the "free lunch" they think they are getting when all they're really doing is making the whole process more expensive.
I wouldn't copy Canada. I personally know someone that was killed by the Canadian system.
Also, don't drink the Kool-Aid. There's a big difference between what gets billed and what gets paid. If you think American health care is overpriced, you're probably looking at a bogus inflated number.
The problem with people trying to turn the US into a European style socialist welfare state is that they don't have any actual experience with those. They just hear a lot of bogus media reports that distort the facts to suit a particular narrative.
> This compares with about 1/3 government agencies considered successful.
Unfortunately none of those include Medicare, Medicaid, the VA, or any of the state disability systems.
If a company fails, then you can just use the another company. If a monopoly of any sort fails, you're just stuck. If that monopoly is medical care, you're just DEAD.
Forget about illegal. The system couldn't even figure out that the details were completely invalid and fictitious. It's unable to do the slightest bit of basic sanity checking.
...anyone who isn't part of the Microsoft human centipede.
Tablet platforms obviously come to mind. Their ascendancy is probably why more developers seem to care about OpenGL these days. Macs and Linux are probably just fortunate benefactors of that.
The LAST thing I want to do is step foot in a Walmart. Even before I had a medical excuse to stay away from B&M stores, I found Walmart a most depressing experience.
If Walmart really wants to leap-frog Amazon then they can home deliver the things that Amazon can't.
Currently Walmart's raison d'ÃÂtre is being the option for cheapskates. If they can't beat Amazon on price, they are going to lose because walking to your front door is always more convenient then schlepping anywhere.
"In store pickup" is just a lame compromise that everyone else already does anyways.
Pulseaudio really has SQUAT to do with "ease of configuration". That already existed with ALSA. What pulseaudio added was "features" that ALSA didn't have.
Ubuntu (and the rest) "just worked" fine before pulseaudio. If anything, adopting pulse too quickly caused Ubuntu to "not just work" anymore for a lot of people. It still has a bad reputation because of this.
People are choosing to have selective amnesia when it comes to Ubuntu+pulse now.
It's the same amnesia that cause people to pretend that Ubuntu is something special.
The single best feature of Ubuntu is apt-get and that's something that Ubuntu stole from Debian.
Much of the rest is just kernel level stuff and the advent of PnP standards for hardware that make automation a no-brainer. Most of what Ubuntu gets credit for was probably developed by kernel contributors like Redhat (kudzu).
Ubuntu was always little more than Debian with a few tweaks. They are a little bit more "desktop centric" but that about it. This persistent myth that Ubuntu was the first distribution to be "easy" is just bullshit. Most of what Ubuntu interesting was cribbed wholesale from Debian.
This bogus "legend of Ubuntu" seems to be the best explanation of it's success as anything. It's all empty marketing.
In the old days, lot of the "manual" futzing was a product of primitive hardware that was never designed for PnP. Ubuntu came along by the time that era was over.
If you're trying to hold 150 options in your head at once then you're doing it wrong. Basically you don't know how to think. Either you were born defective or the educational system beat it out of you or perhaps a little bit of both.
Of course an effective educational system is the LAST thing American oligarchs want. General numeracy would cause the current consumer culture to implode.
Apple does "so well" because they gouge the drooling mouth breathers. The only do "so well" by one particular metric that fanboys like to fixate on once all other metrics don't pan out.
In truth, Apple is a niche player and a small minority of the market.
They can "create a market" and still end up on the bottom once any sort of competition moves in.
> But many people DO have trouble picking a jar of jam. From TFA:
These are also probably the same nitwits that cant use an iPad without on-site technical support. This should not be a race to the bottom to pander to the biggest MORONS in society. Society is enough of an idiocracy as is.
Restricting the choice of Jams makes it all sound so benign but it can be really quite sinister. Just ask any Soviet ex-pat, or better yet ask them to smile for you.
It's only communism when some university professor decides that choice is bad for us because he is in fact a communist and doesn't even try to hide it.
He's an obvious "capitalism troll".
Meanwhile in the real world the real for-profit supermarket has loads of choices. They even happily sell you what you would need to create your own entirely unique alternatives.
Forget the jam section. They have a produce section and a canning section. So, the sky's the limit.
Russia was industrialized before the Communists. If they accelerated the process, the problem is that they also committed genocide in the process. Not just modern "faux genocide" but the real thing where body counts are in the millions and populations never quite recover.
The change to communism really didn't alter the nature of Russian society as basically feudal. It just changed the identities of those in power. The same goes for post-communist Russia.
No choices is a key feature of communism however. The central planning by people that think they are smarter than anyone else leads to the failure to address even basic hygiene.
The "chaos and confusion" are a necessary consequence of an economic system that will actually meet all of your needs.
Having actually seen a fair number of nurses in action, I wouldn't trust any of them to actually "invent" anything. They generally need the soul stifling regulation and the somewhat military approach to procedure.
Your "solution" is just sad. As a living room interface, it's crude in all of the ways that Linux gets accused of being. There are actual applications that are much better for this kind of stuff than a web browser. Plus desktop web browser plugins are PIGS.
Pretty much everything you're doing screams for an ARM appliance.
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Of course. If you have contradictory first hand experience, then it's a lie. I personally know low paid working stiffs who were not helped by Obamacare.
Plans are still expensive.
Even worthless plans are expensive.
Deductibles are still high.
Plans without high deductibles are astronomical.
Costs continue to rise for everyone getting to the point where you need to be "wealthy" to afford a plan at all anymore.
Moron. Get this through your thick skull. The ACA is corporate welfare for insurance companies. Anything that forces me to buy something from a corporation is not making people "pay their fair share".
A new "Obamacare Tax" would have made people "pay their fair" share. The Dems just had no balls to do things the right way so they end up with this corporate welfare monstrosity.
They did that despite ramming this through congress without any republican approval. If you are going to do something like that, you might as well do it right or something vaguely resembling right.
God, nanny state babies are stupid.
It's strange. If the Republicans are in the health insurance industry then why was it the Democrats passed a corporate welfare bill for insurance companies?
As far as the "drug price negotiation" bogey man goes, I would rather people like Clinton and Sanders didn't slay the golden goose. The parts of the industry that make new stuff create modern miracles and should be encouraged to keep on doing so.
Trying to "stiff doctors" and "stiff drug companies" is nothing to brag about. It's kind of sleazy really.
In the grand scheme of things, "overpaying" for new miracle drugs beats buying an extra aircraft carrier we don't even need.
No. That idea of reducing health care costs is yet another one of those lies told through statistics. The "rack rate" for some expensive procedure is X where the real cost a hospital will actually get paid is 1/2 or 1/3rd of that.
You can "save tons of money" just by changing the numbers you look at it.
You people are droning on about public policy and you really have no clue at all.
I see stupid people and they don't even know they're stupid.
No. The problem is that people will readily pay for any number of luxuries but they have somehow gotten it into the heads that they should never have to pay for medical costs.
Even people that should know better revel in the idea of the "free lunch" they think they are getting when all they're really doing is making the whole process more expensive.
I wouldn't copy Canada. I personally know someone that was killed by the Canadian system.
Also, don't drink the Kool-Aid. There's a big difference between what gets billed and what gets paid. If you think American health care is overpriced, you're probably looking at a bogus inflated number.
The problem with people trying to turn the US into a European style socialist welfare state is that they don't have any actual experience with those. They just hear a lot of bogus media reports that distort the facts to suit a particular narrative.
> This compares with about 1/3 government agencies considered successful.
Unfortunately none of those include Medicare, Medicaid, the VA, or any of the state disability systems.
If a company fails, then you can just use the another company. If a monopoly of any sort fails, you're just stuck. If that monopoly is medical care, you're just DEAD.
Forget about illegal. The system couldn't even figure out that the details were completely invalid and fictitious. It's unable to do the slightest bit of basic sanity checking.
...anyone who isn't part of the Microsoft human centipede.
Tablet platforms obviously come to mind. Their ascendancy is probably why more developers seem to care about OpenGL these days. Macs and Linux are probably just fortunate benefactors of that.
DX "like" isn't quite good enough.
Plus you forgot to mention what Nintendo uses.
NOPE!
The LAST thing I want to do is step foot in a Walmart. Even before I had a medical excuse to stay away from B&M stores, I found Walmart a most depressing experience.
If Walmart really wants to leap-frog Amazon then they can home deliver the things that Amazon can't.
Currently Walmart's raison d'ÃÂtre is being the option for cheapskates. If they can't beat Amazon on price, they are going to lose because walking to your front door is always more convenient then schlepping anywhere.
"In store pickup" is just a lame compromise that everyone else already does anyways.
Pulseaudio really has SQUAT to do with "ease of configuration". That already existed with ALSA. What pulseaudio added was "features" that ALSA didn't have.
Ubuntu (and the rest) "just worked" fine before pulseaudio. If anything, adopting pulse too quickly caused Ubuntu to "not just work" anymore for a lot of people. It still has a bad reputation because of this.
People are choosing to have selective amnesia when it comes to Ubuntu+pulse now.
It's the same amnesia that cause people to pretend that Ubuntu is something special.
The single best feature of Ubuntu is apt-get and that's something that Ubuntu stole from Debian.
Much of the rest is just kernel level stuff and the advent of PnP standards for hardware that make automation a no-brainer. Most of what Ubuntu gets credit for was probably developed by kernel contributors like Redhat (kudzu).
Meh.
Ubuntu was always little more than Debian with a few tweaks. They are a little bit more "desktop centric" but that about it. This persistent myth that Ubuntu was the first distribution to be "easy" is just bullshit. Most of what Ubuntu interesting was cribbed wholesale from Debian.
This bogus "legend of Ubuntu" seems to be the best explanation of it's success as anything. It's all empty marketing.
In the old days, lot of the "manual" futzing was a product of primitive hardware that was never designed for PnP. Ubuntu came along by the time that era was over.
"You people are too rich. You need to live more like the starving people in Africa."
-- The communist professor
If you're trying to hold 150 options in your head at once then you're doing it wrong. Basically you don't know how to think. Either you were born defective or the educational system beat it out of you or perhaps a little bit of both.
Of course an effective educational system is the LAST thing American oligarchs want. General numeracy would cause the current consumer culture to implode.
Apple does "so well" because they gouge the drooling mouth breathers. The only do "so well" by one particular metric that fanboys like to fixate on once all other metrics don't pan out.
In truth, Apple is a niche player and a small minority of the market.
They can "create a market" and still end up on the bottom once any sort of competition moves in.
> But many people DO have trouble picking a jar of jam. From TFA:
These are also probably the same nitwits that cant use an iPad without on-site technical support. This should not be a race to the bottom to pander to the biggest MORONS in society. Society is enough of an idiocracy as is.
Restricting the choice of Jams makes it all sound so benign but it can be really quite sinister. Just ask any Soviet ex-pat, or better yet ask them to smile for you.
It's only communism when some university professor decides that choice is bad for us because he is in fact a communist and doesn't even try to hide it.
He's an obvious "capitalism troll".
Meanwhile in the real world the real for-profit supermarket has loads of choices. They even happily sell you what you would need to create your own entirely unique alternatives.
Forget the jam section. They have a produce section and a canning section. So, the sky's the limit.
Still a non-problem.
Try on brand on Monday. Try another brand on Tuesday. Try another on Wednesday. Or not even bother.
It's not some great tragedy.
If you think that 3 brands of grape jam to choose from is something to get stressed over, you have a remarkably sheltered and shallow existence.
Russia was industrialized before the Communists. If they accelerated the process, the problem is that they also committed genocide in the process. Not just modern "faux genocide" but the real thing where body counts are in the millions and populations never quite recover.
The change to communism really didn't alter the nature of Russian society as basically feudal. It just changed the identities of those in power. The same goes for post-communist Russia.
No choices is a key feature of communism however. The central planning by people that think they are smarter than anyone else leads to the failure to address even basic hygiene.
The "chaos and confusion" are a necessary consequence of an economic system that will actually meet all of your needs.
They had a couple of MASH episodes along these lines.
That's a 70s show about what went on in the 50s.
"It's like the god damned Spanish Inquisition."
Having actually seen a fair number of nurses in action, I wouldn't trust any of them to actually "invent" anything. They generally need the soul stifling regulation and the somewhat military approach to procedure.
Even if you rent a DVD or BD, it still makes more sense to feed it through some sort of media server solution. That goes triple for BluRay.
Although I have a novel idea for populating your media server...
BUY SOMETHING
Your "solution" is just sad. As a living room interface, it's crude in all of the ways that Linux gets accused of being. There are actual applications that are much better for this kind of stuff than a web browser. Plus desktop web browser plugins are PIGS.
Pretty much everything you're doing screams for an ARM appliance.