> I really don't think you do, but hey, it's your dollar. Do what you want with it.
Consider it a basic IT capacity planning exercise.
Do you want your servers to always being run balls to the walls at 100% capacity or do you want some left over so that your systems run better, you can handle a sudden spike, or even some limited future growth.
Now consider that this exercise is not just about some consume product or other thing that really has no significance in the grand scheme of things. Consider that this is your life. This is your worthless ass that's on the line. It's not just some Koreans in some internet cafe that can't get their gaming fix. It's your life.
I would rather not have my life hang in the balance because some bean counter thinks that a little excess capacity is unacceptable.
Been there, done that. Love not having to worry about that sort of thing. Much less distressing than the whole "can I pay" thing.
That's the problem with socialism. It doesn't matter if you are a "rich man" or not. Sh*t's just not there to be bought.
Unless you've got real numbers about people dying for lack of money in America, it's just mindless political propaganda.
On the other hand, I personally know someone that was killed by the Canadian medical system. He didn't receive what would have been considered the standard of care in America. His condition was not properly diagnosed and what they missed initially ended up killing him.
He was a victim of miserly lab work, the flip side of the "over diagnosis" bogeyman.
To be blunt, if you aren't having a genuine emergency then you are a MORON for going to the ER. It's common knowledge that any ER runs on a priority queue. It's NOT "first come first served". The people that ARE actually dying have a very justifiable medical priority. So the fools and hypocondriacs just have to wait.
If you self pay in my state the hospital can only collect as much as it would have collected from insurance.
I can also neither confirm nor deny the urban legend about this $50 aspirin as medical bills are not sufficiently detailed to validate this. This may or may not be true but anyone that's repeating it is really just pulling it out their ass.
Consider both of these issues that should have been addressed by the ACA but weren't.
They are generally evil but they are more than willing to pay claims. Medical providers engage in abusive billing practices that are just bad enough not to be blatantly illegal. There's also a fair amount of genuine fraud as well.
There are a number of things that could stand reform here and Obamacare completely ignored them.
It's not even Medicaid. Medicare also has this problem.
I'm really amused by any American that wants to embrace socialized medicine. Sure, the Germans might be able to pull it off but when has the US ever done well implementing welfare?
Do they not know any poor people or old people or veterans? Clearly not.
Just about any welfare program that existed in the US ever has had to deal with claw backs from the GOP. Even if it started out well it eventually devolved into something awful as soon as something like 20/20 started running articles about fraud and abuse. All of the state workers comp systems were gutted after that.
You do NOT want to admit to a workplace injury. If one happens, say you were engaging in some hobby at home. You are MUCH better off with evil private insurance based healthcare.
There's restrictions on cancer drugs due to budget restrictions. Doctors threatening to go on strike over pay cuts and work hours. Discussions about rationing of simple orthopedic surgeries or limiting them based on some yet to be defined "merit" criteria.
In general, the order of the day seems to be budget cuts and rationing.
Right now, the NHS is actually more of a cautionary tale.
Nah. My rates went up even faster. Then all of the decent private plans that existed in my state all got wiped out.
It's a shame that the Democrats didn't try to directly address the problems rather than trying to re-engineer the entire system. One obvious problem was the lack of will to have an actual Obamacare tax. Instead they created this horrible "individual mandate" president.
They gutted a number of well functioning state systems in the process. If the GOP does manage to get the ACA revoked, the collateral damage from that will be staggering.
It will be something along the lines of removing a grappling hook from someone. The damage coming out will be immense.
As an actual patient, I am less concerned about getting a bargain. I want access to the best care possible. I want the latest bleeding edge treatments and overpriced miracle cures. Those things don't happen without economic incentives. Gutting the US medical system will destroy those incentives and harm EVERY PATIENT ON THE PLANET including the socialist ones that brag about stiffing American drug companies.
I don't want to eat dirt. I don't want cheap junk for less. I want the best. If we're paying more than the rest of the world then so be it. Put it in the same category as spending too much on aircraft carriers. I'm fine with carrying the rest of the world on our shoulders. At least sh*t gets done.
Yeah, the high premiums suck. I like to complain about them too. Our current system (warts and all) means a much better prognosis for the 3 year old with the brain tumor than some socialist utopia that would displace it.
Of course separate events are separate billable events. None of those other things are free. They cost someone money. They might not even be something that your local pill pusher can handle himself. Lab work is an obvious example.
Even if they were all handled as a single invoice, accountability and auditing would require that they can all be broken out individually.
EOBs are kind of crap already. They need to be MORE detailed rather than less.
What about her? Her parents are likely employed and insured. If not then they are on welfare and covered by Medicaid. Either way, they are not simply left out in the cold.
People who aren't actually patients have these strange hysterical notions about how healthcare works.
Also, you are fixating on an extreme case there. The more typical case involves costs that are no more than what you would be wiling to pay for some total luxury. The only problem is your willingness to pay, not your actual ability to pay.
Americans simply don't know how good they have it. Europeans might not realize this either. Americans simply make more. They also keep more and their money goes farther. So Americans have more choices.
The European approach basically takes the individuals money before they can squander it.
A lot of people who need to engage in this sort of digital pan handling are not badly off. They just chose not to be prepared. This includes people who choose to live in McMansions yet leave no resources left over for emergencies. They choose to blow all of their money rather than save or invest any of it.
Describing an AK-47 as "engineered" is a complete misnomer. Whereas an AR-15 is designed to be accurate at 500 yards. This situation is further complicated by the fact that there's a wide variance in the quality and manufacture of AK-47s. Some are utter crap that aren't useful for anything. The best made AK's are actually not allowed to be imported to the US as rifles. So you end up with these odd "pistolized" AK-47s that look and feel like something out of a bad action movie.
Whereas a mediocre shot with a government issue American rifle can consistently split your hair at 200 yards.
Also, the food industry thrives on people that can't control themselves. They need people overeating. They need their unsustainable profit growth. So they need people drinking coke like water and snacking every minute of the day.
If you tell people they can take control of their lives then all of that collapses.
Once people know that they can control themselves when it comes to food then the entire basis of consumer culture falls apart. Once you can turn away from the snik-snaks, you can turn away from the rest of it and the whole house of cards collapses.
Get over yourself snowflake. You are no diabetic. So the corner cases don't apply to your fat ass. You just have to face the fact that you're a failure with no will power.
Not that any of the actual diabetics 1 have ever known were actual lardasses. It's usually the Type 2 ones that are the lardbutts. Diet and exercise tends to do them a world of good. Some manage to even go into "remission".
If you fit into the "buff or fat" category then you stay buff. The fact that life's not fair doesn't get you a get out of jail free card. The pity party that some people are wiling to throw you won't help you. You take care of business or you suffer the consequences.
>If it was that simple, why are the researchers in this story, and others complaining it is not?
You are confusing "simple" with "difficult".
Knowing what to do is easy, being able to execute is what's hard. Weight loss requires deprivation. That's going to be impossible for some people right there. Some snowflakes can't handle any adversity what so ever. Dieting is self imposed starvation and that's acutely anti-instinctive.
Some people can't manage to stop indulging themselves. Never mind actual self deprivation.
There are plenty of medically engineered weight loss programs and plenty more "consumer grade" solutions. The problem isn't the lack of suitable solutions.
People just want excuses to not be responsible for their own actions. They want someone else to blame.
The whole thing is bullshit. So the numbers are a little crude? Big deal. Just acknowledge that and move on. The entire thing is just the usual attempts to excuse a total lack of interest in being responsible for yourself. It's nothing more than an excuse for weak undisciplined people to throw up their arms and tell themselves it's not really their fault.
Even people with a genuine genetic disadvantage can succeed by applying basic thermodynamics. If you can't handle the accounting yourself, there are plenty of products and services to make it easy for you.
This is just more of the media narrative that enables fat slobs.
...except for the inconvenient fact that the "highly proprietary" Nvidia kit sells very well for Linux and is very well supported. When Linux Journal was still printed on dead trees, they had a number of ads from vendors selling big fat expensive GPU compute boxes. There was usually and ad of this sort on the back cover.
System 76 sells a box like this. Include all of the bells and whistles (including 4 GPUs) and it might be more expensive than your car.
Random untrusted executables are THE attack vector for malware.
Advertising that forces you to accept executables from a wide array of random untrusted sources are forcing you to completely forgo any sort of security precautions.
I've had colleagues taken out of action for days for browsing the wrong site with the wrong browser. This did not include any destinations that would be obviously suspicious.
The industry really only has itself to blame for escalating the abusiveness of advertising. They work hard to earn everyone's distrust and hate.They should spend some of that effort on being less obnoxious. They employ enough effort at psychological manipulation.
The fact that an urban professionals apartment in Europe might be better than an American housing project the poor is nothing to brag about really. You're comparing the absolute worst possibility in America with what is your only option.
Your little false dichotomy is just a weak way of kidding yourself about what a shithole you really have back there on the other side of the pond.
Call it the inevitable result of a general lack of ambition.
Like any freebies for mooches, the ultimate question is who picks up the tab and who's in control of the larder. Deprivation and corruption are key features of all human governance whether they're communist or not.
"Willing to buy" is also a lot different from "willing to tolerate it as the only option". Just like any other kind of product, people with guns may have more than one each meant for different purposes or even different people.
I want the rifle used by Marines and the sidearm used by Marines.
Well then, I suggest that any time you see a COP that you should FLEE like a hysterical ninny that you are because they are ARMED and I assure you they are also "stressed". They also see YOU as a THREAT as you are on the other side of their thin blue line. Make no mistake, you're one of THEM. You're as much of a perp to them as a thug or a terrorist.
It's funny how hysterical liberals don't acknowledge the fact that cops are just another undertrained undisiciplined civilian with a gun.
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> I really don't think you do, but hey, it's your dollar. Do what you want with it.
Consider it a basic IT capacity planning exercise.
Do you want your servers to always being run balls to the walls at 100% capacity or do you want some left over so that your systems run better, you can handle a sudden spike, or even some limited future growth.
Now consider that this exercise is not just about some consume product or other thing that really has no significance in the grand scheme of things. Consider that this is your life. This is your worthless ass that's on the line. It's not just some Koreans in some internet cafe that can't get their gaming fix. It's your life.
I would rather not have my life hang in the balance because some bean counter thinks that a little excess capacity is unacceptable.
Been there, done that. Love not having to worry about that sort of thing. Much less distressing than the whole "can I pay" thing.
That's the problem with socialism. It doesn't matter if you are a "rich man" or not. Sh*t's just not there to be bought.
Forget about Fox News. The "inconvenient facts" that I bring up are reported by the BBC. Not exactly a Tory stronghold.
Unless you've got real numbers about people dying for lack of money in America, it's just mindless political propaganda.
On the other hand, I personally know someone that was killed by the Canadian medical system. He didn't receive what would have been considered the standard of care in America. His condition was not properly diagnosed and what they missed initially ended up killing him.
He was a victim of miserly lab work, the flip side of the "over diagnosis" bogeyman.
To be blunt, if you aren't having a genuine emergency then you are a MORON for going to the ER. It's common knowledge that any ER runs on a priority queue. It's NOT "first come first served". The people that ARE actually dying have a very justifiable medical priority. So the fools and hypocondriacs just have to wait.
> I really don't think you do, but hey, it's your dollar. Do what you want with it.
You have no clue what I want. You can't possibly relate because you haven't actually been there. You're just a hysterical spectator.
I can tell because you start out with the assumption that the ER is the best option.
If you self pay in my state the hospital can only collect as much as it would have collected from insurance.
I can also neither confirm nor deny the urban legend about this $50 aspirin as medical bills are not sufficiently detailed to validate this. This may or may not be true but anyone that's repeating it is really just pulling it out their ass.
Consider both of these issues that should have been addressed by the ACA but weren't.
Insurance companies write plenty of checks.
They are generally evil but they are more than willing to pay claims. Medical providers engage in abusive billing practices that are just bad enough not to be blatantly illegal. There's also a fair amount of genuine fraud as well.
There are a number of things that could stand reform here and Obamacare completely ignored them.
It's not even Medicaid. Medicare also has this problem.
I'm really amused by any American that wants to embrace socialized medicine. Sure, the Germans might be able to pull it off but when has the US ever done well implementing welfare?
Do they not know any poor people or old people or veterans? Clearly not.
Just about any welfare program that existed in the US ever has had to deal with claw backs from the GOP. Even if it started out well it eventually devolved into something awful as soon as something like 20/20 started running articles about fraud and abuse. All of the state workers comp systems were gutted after that.
You do NOT want to admit to a workplace injury. If one happens, say you were engaging in some hobby at home. You are MUCH better off with evil private insurance based healthcare.
...then you must not keep up with the news then.
There's restrictions on cancer drugs due to budget restrictions.
Doctors threatening to go on strike over pay cuts and work hours.
Discussions about rationing of simple orthopedic surgeries or limiting them based on some yet to be defined "merit" criteria.
In general, the order of the day seems to be budget cuts and rationing.
Right now, the NHS is actually more of a cautionary tale.
Nah. My rates went up even faster. Then all of the decent private plans that existed in my state all got wiped out.
It's a shame that the Democrats didn't try to directly address the problems rather than trying to re-engineer the entire system. One obvious problem was the lack of will to have an actual Obamacare tax. Instead they created this horrible "individual mandate" president.
They gutted a number of well functioning state systems in the process. If the GOP does manage to get the ACA revoked, the collateral damage from that will be staggering.
It will be something along the lines of removing a grappling hook from someone. The damage coming out will be immense.
As an actual patient, I am less concerned about getting a bargain. I want access to the best care possible. I want the latest bleeding edge treatments and overpriced miracle cures. Those things don't happen without economic incentives. Gutting the US medical system will destroy those incentives and harm EVERY PATIENT ON THE PLANET including the socialist ones that brag about stiffing American drug companies.
I don't want to eat dirt. I don't want cheap junk for less. I want the best. If we're paying more than the rest of the world then so be it. Put it in the same category as spending too much on aircraft carriers. I'm fine with carrying the rest of the world on our shoulders. At least sh*t gets done.
Yeah, the high premiums suck. I like to complain about them too. Our current system (warts and all) means a much better prognosis for the 3 year old with the brain tumor than some socialist utopia that would displace it.
Of course separate events are separate billable events. None of those other things are free. They cost someone money. They might not even be something that your local pill pusher can handle himself. Lab work is an obvious example.
Even if they were all handled as a single invoice, accountability and auditing would require that they can all be broken out individually.
EOBs are kind of crap already. They need to be MORE detailed rather than less.
What about her? Her parents are likely employed and insured. If not then they are on welfare and covered by Medicaid. Either way, they are not simply left out in the cold.
People who aren't actually patients have these strange hysterical notions about how healthcare works.
Also, you are fixating on an extreme case there. The more typical case involves costs that are no more than what you would be wiling to pay for some total luxury. The only problem is your willingness to pay, not your actual ability to pay.
Americans simply don't know how good they have it. Europeans might not realize this either. Americans simply make more. They also keep more and their money goes farther. So Americans have more choices.
The European approach basically takes the individuals money before they can squander it.
A lot of people who need to engage in this sort of digital pan handling are not badly off. They just chose not to be prepared. This includes people who choose to live in McMansions yet leave no resources left over for emergencies. They choose to blow all of their money rather than save or invest any of it.
Lay off the A-Team reruns.
Describing an AK-47 as "engineered" is a complete misnomer. Whereas an AR-15 is designed to be accurate at 500 yards. This situation is further complicated by the fact that there's a wide variance in the quality and manufacture of AK-47s. Some are utter crap that aren't useful for anything. The best made AK's are actually not allowed to be imported to the US as rifles. So you end up with these odd "pistolized" AK-47s that look and feel like something out of a bad action movie.
Whereas a mediocre shot with a government issue American rifle can consistently split your hair at 200 yards.
Also, the food industry thrives on people that can't control themselves. They need people overeating. They need their unsustainable profit growth. So they need people drinking coke like water and snacking every minute of the day.
If you tell people they can take control of their lives then all of that collapses.
Once people know that they can control themselves when it comes to food then the entire basis of consumer culture falls apart. Once you can turn away from the snik-snaks, you can turn away from the rest of it and the whole house of cards collapses.
Get over yourself snowflake. You are no diabetic. So the corner cases don't apply to your fat ass. You just have to face the fact that you're a failure with no will power.
Not that any of the actual diabetics 1 have ever known were actual lardasses. It's usually the Type 2 ones that are the lardbutts. Diet and exercise tends to do them a world of good. Some manage to even go into "remission".
If you fit into the "buff or fat" category then you stay buff. The fact that life's not fair doesn't get you a get out of jail free card. The pity party that some people are wiling to throw you won't help you. You take care of business or you suffer the consequences.
>If it was that simple, why are the researchers in this story, and others complaining it is not?
You are confusing "simple" with "difficult".
Knowing what to do is easy, being able to execute is what's hard. Weight loss requires deprivation. That's going to be impossible for some people right there. Some snowflakes can't handle any adversity what so ever. Dieting is self imposed starvation and that's acutely anti-instinctive.
Some people can't manage to stop indulging themselves. Never mind actual self deprivation.
There are plenty of medically engineered weight loss programs and plenty more "consumer grade" solutions. The problem isn't the lack of suitable solutions.
People just want excuses to not be responsible for their own actions. They want someone else to blame.
The whole thing is bullshit. So the numbers are a little crude? Big deal. Just acknowledge that and move on. The entire thing is just the usual attempts to excuse a total lack of interest in being responsible for yourself. It's nothing more than an excuse for weak undisciplined people to throw up their arms and tell themselves it's not really their fault.
Even people with a genuine genetic disadvantage can succeed by applying basic thermodynamics. If you can't handle the accounting yourself, there are plenty of products and services to make it easy for you.
This is just more of the media narrative that enables fat slobs.
...except for the inconvenient fact that the "highly proprietary" Nvidia kit sells very well for Linux and is very well supported. When Linux Journal was still printed on dead trees, they had a number of ads from vendors selling big fat expensive GPU compute boxes. There was usually and ad of this sort on the back cover.
System 76 sells a box like this. Include all of the bells and whistles (including 4 GPUs) and it might be more expensive than your car.
I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about.
I think you are completely making this up.
Gamergaters whining that someone invented a kill file for Twitter? Probably only in your own mind.
Welcome to the 80s Twitter...
Random untrusted executables are THE attack vector for malware.
Advertising that forces you to accept executables from a wide array of random untrusted sources are forcing you to completely forgo any sort of security precautions.
I've had colleagues taken out of action for days for browsing the wrong site with the wrong browser. This did not include any destinations that would be obviously suspicious.
The industry really only has itself to blame for escalating the abusiveness of advertising. They work hard to earn everyone's distrust and hate.They should spend some of that effort on being less obnoxious. They employ enough effort at psychological manipulation.
The fact that an urban professionals apartment in Europe might be better than an American housing project the poor is nothing to brag about really. You're comparing the absolute worst possibility in America with what is your only option.
Your little false dichotomy is just a weak way of kidding yourself about what a shithole you really have back there on the other side of the pond.
Call it the inevitable result of a general lack of ambition.
Like any freebies for mooches, the ultimate question is who picks up the tab and who's in control of the larder. Deprivation and corruption are key features of all human governance whether they're communist or not.
"Willing to buy" is also a lot different from "willing to tolerate it as the only option". Just like any other kind of product, people with guns may have more than one each meant for different purposes or even different people.
I want the rifle used by Marines and the sidearm used by Marines.
If those are "smart guns" then that's cool.
Well then, I suggest that any time you see a COP that you should FLEE like a hysterical ninny that you are because they are ARMED and I assure you they are also "stressed". They also see YOU as a THREAT as you are on the other side of their thin blue line. Make no mistake, you're one of THEM. You're as much of a perp to them as a thug or a terrorist.
It's funny how hysterical liberals don't acknowledge the fact that cops are just another undertrained undisiciplined civilian with a gun.
New York City... safest in the country... you're so funny.
Do you even hear the nonsense coming out of your mouth?