ideologue we've done pretty well with judges. They gave us Roe v Wade, shot down segregation and upheld those protections against denying pre-existing conditions. The EPA does well too so long as you're not putting the Fox in charge of the hen house like we are now. Stop trolling and wake up before you end up dying of cancer from a toxic spill and can't get treatment for your pre-existing condition.
they can buy on the heavily subsidized exchanges unless they've got employer sponsored insurance. If they've got the latter though they're often screwed because the employer has to cover them by law but their sickness kills the employers rates. But that was happening before the mandates.
Either way ACA is still a bad system. It was bad when Mitt Rhomney put it in place in Massachusetts and it was bad when we did it nationally. The entire thing was a compromise to get coverage for pre-existing conditions out of the insurance companies because Americans got spooked by "Death Panels" when those companies blew $500 million on adverts to convince people of that.
is to get bought out by big tech. Startups don't produce products much anymore, they produce engineers who get bought out. It's less about starting your own business and more about a really, really long job interview.
America based it's entire healthcare system on two unsubstantiated anecdotes.
FWIW I've had much worse from the US system. My Type I diabetic friend was short on insulin until Obamacare and the medicare expansion kicked in. I had a close family member fail a "Wallet Biopsy" and not get an MRI on her hip while on steroids and it did permanent damage, all because the doctor didn't want to order a test he wasn't sure if he'd get paid for.
Anecdotes aside 45,000 Americans die every year for lack of care.
well, not many. What we have are corporatists. People who do whatever the mega-corps want. Similar to what we had when the robber barons were in power.
To be fair, I say not many because Hilary was very, very conservative. Hell, she opposed gay marriage & TPP until Bernie dragged her to the left to secure the nomination. But I'll say this for her, she would have kept everything as is. Stayed the course. It's one of the many, many reasons she lost. If you take the stock market out of the equation the US economy is doing crap. Wages have fallen about 20-30% in the last 40 years. People want change, they just don't know how to get it.
they're just _paying_ for it. No matter what anybody is telling you nobody is suggesting we nationalize healthcare. We're nationalizing _insurance_; e.g. the paying part. Hence the name "single payer".
shame on you, fool me twice... you can't... you can't fool me again.
Seriously though, I'd like to make the point that while the Democratic Party has a wing that refuses corporate PAC money forget a wing, I don't know of a single GOP politician who does.
I'm not saying it's impossible, but actions speak louder than words. The Republican party have done a lot of bad to me and mine. They're currently working on eliminating the protections for pre-existing conditions for Obamacare and argue that we should end Social Security & Medicare for people under 55 (they're careful not to piss off their base of older voters until it's too late). Their tax cut is causing out of control inflation and interest rate hikes. They just repealed Dodd-Frank (albeit with the help of several right wing Democrats). They cut funding to my kid's schools. They tried to take away my Type-I diabetic buddies insulin for christ's sake (seriously, I'm not even exaggerating here, the ACA and Obama made them back down when he threatened to pull Medicare for the old folks in my red state). I can go on and on.
When I see real, positive actions from them I'll give credit where it's due. But after 40 years of policy that has a demonstratively negative impact on my life you'll forgive me if I'm just a wee bit distrustful.
read the Wikipedia article. The "game" is just a moral panic in Russia. Remember Judas Priest Albums? The Satanic Panic and all that.
Somebody in Saudi Arabia wanted to crack down on video games, probably because they're helping to secularize their society and there's lots of very wealthy and powerful men who don't want that. That's all this is.
the problem is pre-existing conditions. The current administration is allowing Texas' challenge to the ACA's pre-existing condition mandate to proceed unchallenged. It is very likely to end with the law being declared unconstitutional (elections have consequences and all that rot).
Prior to the ACA there were multiple instances of people in their 40s, 50s and 60s getting skin cancer and being denied care because they had acne medication when they were teenagers. The justification was that the the "acne" was in fact cancerous lesions.
If you think there's something wrong with that you're right. The only solution is to vote people who support single payer in. The hodge podge system we have now is going to collapse because it is being _made_ to collapse. So long as we don't have healthcare as a basic right someone will take it away for profit..
But the single payer folks now need overwhelming power thanks to our current SCOTUS, which is likely to cry the 10th Amendment on any legislation. We'll need to first get Medicare for All passed and then follow it up with a constitutional amendment guaranteeing all Americans healthcare. Otherwise we'll have to wait 40 years for the SCOTUS to change hands. We've got 45,000 people dying every year for lack of health care. If you're reading this you might be next. We can't wait that long.
they go out of their way to block Canada to US sales for just that reason. A lot of folks I know go down to Mexico. If they've got family that knows how to navigate their healthcare system is works well. That works for Canada to a certain extent. Canada has "Healthcare refugees" who move to Canada with their spouses because otherwise they can't get care. There several videos on youtube about it.
I've got friends and family who have long term illnesses in America and have spent their entire lives struggling to get the care they need to live. But at least 20% of Americans are convinced that taxes will go up if we switch to single payer (even adjusting for the cost of healthcare from their employer). A lot of these are ex-military and people on Medicare who "got theirs, fark me" too, which doesn't help.
I think the hodgepodge is about to collapse though. The Republican party is currently gutting the VA (Trump's Admin just closed a whole bunch of sites and did general funding cuts). They've been chipping away at Medicare too (they did the Plan-B stuff under Bush and Paul Ryan & Co have been conditioning the electorate to believe we can't afford it). Meanwhile Trump's Admin has allowed a challenge to the ACA's pre-existing coverage requirement to go forward unchallenged. It will probably make it up to the SCOTUS where the newly minted judges appointed by Trump will kill it. That means we'll be back to the days when you can't change jobs without permanently losing access to health care.
If the Dems take the house this might be slowed for a few years, but eventually the legal challenges will make it to the Superme Court where they right wing judges will shut it down. Eventually they'll challenge Medicare and that'll be that. At that point our only option will be no healthcare for anyone but the very wealthy.
The question is, what then? Will we slide into a third world winner take all economy? That seems to be where we're heading. I'm expecting to be dead (I'm 40 and men in my family are not long lived no matter what) and my kid will hopefully have a STEM degree and will move to Canada but otherwise we're going to need a constitutional amendment to fix this mess.
It was the GP that made the point that Bezos only makes $80k a year. I submit to you that the GP is the one pushing a narrative that Bezos is a humble working man who leaves the bulk of his fortune to the people. My point is that is a false narrative meant to distract from the enormous money grab him and others like him are doing.
how does he afford these? Hud housing? I make $80k/yr and I'm stuck in an apartment until my kid graduates from college.
It's not just numbers in a computer. Money is _power_. He's literally got the power to reshape society and bend it to his whims. People with that kind of money use it to make other people do what they're told. And if you don't fall in line they buy off a group of thugs to make sure you do, or else.
At Jeff's level the scam is very simple. He's allowed to borrow money from banks at negative interest rates (well, below the rate he could just loan it back out for anyway). This is how the top 1% avoid paying taxes. They've taken control of the banking system and use it to hide the enormous amounts of wealthy they've claimed on the backs of you and me.
Jeff built his fortune on the backs of guys like this. Amazon's enormous worth is predicated on the assumption by the investors that he's going to do what he did to that guy to everybody while jacking up the prices once he runs everybody out of business. If we're going to do something about a future where we all work until we have a stroke now's the time.
This is about a computer system used to track scores for people social standing. There is nothing more techy that that. It's just techy in a dystopian way.
parts of Michigan (Flint, bits of Detroit) and large swaths of our deep Southern states are as bad as anything you'll find in China with rampant (and cancerous) pollution, barely functional schools and slavery in the form of private prisons with work "programs". There's not as much of it, but we're also about 1/4 the size of China. Also, where China seems to be trying to fix their problems (I say "seems", who knows if they really are) we're getting worse, not better.
or whatever gadget you're typing it on? Are you OK with paying more for virtually everything? Say about 10-20% more?
I am, since I think it'll raise my wages if we have to compete fairly with China. But most folks I talk to are so close to going bankrupt (60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck) that there's no way they'd support that.
it's a dictatorship. Nothing, and I mean _nothing_ about China is communist. Not even a little bit. For Christ's sake, they're our biggest trading partner. They have more millionaires and billionaires than the US does (to be fair that's mostly up to their large population, but the point still stands, millionaires wouldn't exist in a communist dictatorship).
Oh, and China no longer controls birth rates. They've finished emptying out the villages and they need the kids again.
for single payer healthcare in America here comes another. And just to be clear, the article linked is talking about Medicaid, which is what poor people get, not _Medicare_, which is free healthcare old people get so that when they go to the polls they vote against free healthcare for everybody else.
from public Universities. I was in college in the 90s when this crap started and remember the school paper talking to the economics professors who pointed out that without the subsidies tuition would hit $12k+/yr by 2020. They were wrong, we hit that in 2016 when my kid hit college.
College was _always_ this expensive. It didn't go up in price any more than inflation. The federal government was subsidizing education. They stopped doing that so they could give tax cuts to billionaires.
Trump is very much a member of the ruling class. He's a billionaire who sites on golden thrones.
Swing states haven't changed since I was a kid. I'm 40.
You're twisting the logic. This is a common right wing tactic pioneered by Karl Rove in the United States and the Soviets before him. Why should somebody in Montana be able to force their politics on the more populace California? How the hell is that Democracy?
don't call them centrists. They're right wing. Calling them centrists makes them sound reasonable when they're not. Call a spade a spade and a right wing Democrat right wing.
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in a case like this I'm willing to chalk it up to malice. After all, you just have to control who counts the votes...
ideologue we've done pretty well with judges. They gave us Roe v Wade, shot down segregation and upheld those protections against denying pre-existing conditions. The EPA does well too so long as you're not putting the Fox in charge of the hen house like we are now. Stop trolling and wake up before you end up dying of cancer from a toxic spill and can't get treatment for your pre-existing condition.
they can buy on the heavily subsidized exchanges unless they've got employer sponsored insurance. If they've got the latter though they're often screwed because the employer has to cover them by law but their sickness kills the employers rates. But that was happening before the mandates.
Either way ACA is still a bad system. It was bad when Mitt Rhomney put it in place in Massachusetts and it was bad when we did it nationally. The entire thing was a compromise to get coverage for pre-existing conditions out of the insurance companies because Americans got spooked by "Death Panels" when those companies blew $500 million on adverts to convince people of that.
is to get bought out by big tech. Startups don't produce products much anymore, they produce engineers who get bought out. It's less about starting your own business and more about a really, really long job interview.
America based it's entire healthcare system on two unsubstantiated anecdotes.
FWIW I've had much worse from the US system. My Type I diabetic friend was short on insulin until Obamacare and the medicare expansion kicked in. I had a close family member fail a "Wallet Biopsy" and not get an MRI on her hip while on steroids and it did permanent damage, all because the doctor didn't want to order a test he wasn't sure if he'd get paid for.
Anecdotes aside 45,000 Americans die every year for lack of care.
well, not many. What we have are corporatists. People who do whatever the mega-corps want. Similar to what we had when the robber barons were in power.
To be fair, I say not many because Hilary was very, very conservative. Hell, she opposed gay marriage & TPP until Bernie dragged her to the left to secure the nomination. But I'll say this for her, she would have kept everything as is. Stayed the course. It's one of the many, many reasons she lost. If you take the stock market out of the equation the US economy is doing crap. Wages have fallen about 20-30% in the last 40 years. People want change, they just don't know how to get it.
they're just _paying_ for it. No matter what anybody is telling you nobody is suggesting we nationalize healthcare. We're nationalizing _insurance_; e.g. the paying part. Hence the name "single payer".
in 15 years with the money we'd save switching to single payer.
If you're a fiscal conservative single payer just makes sense. The only reasons to oppose it are bad ones.
shame on you, fool me twice... you can't... you can't fool me again.
Seriously though, I'd like to make the point that while the Democratic Party has a wing that refuses corporate PAC money forget a wing, I don't know of a single GOP politician who does.
I'm not saying it's impossible, but actions speak louder than words. The Republican party have done a lot of bad to me and mine. They're currently working on eliminating the protections for pre-existing conditions for Obamacare and argue that we should end Social Security & Medicare for people under 55 (they're careful not to piss off their base of older voters until it's too late). Their tax cut is causing out of control inflation and interest rate hikes. They just repealed Dodd-Frank (albeit with the help of several right wing Democrats). They cut funding to my kid's schools. They tried to take away my Type-I diabetic buddies insulin for christ's sake (seriously, I'm not even exaggerating here, the ACA and Obama made them back down when he threatened to pull Medicare for the old folks in my red state). I can go on and on.
When I see real, positive actions from them I'll give credit where it's due. But after 40 years of policy that has a demonstratively negative impact on my life you'll forgive me if I'm just a wee bit distrustful.
doesn't matter who wins, we lose.
read the Wikipedia article. The "game" is just a moral panic in Russia. Remember Judas Priest Albums? The Satanic Panic and all that.
Somebody in Saudi Arabia wanted to crack down on video games, probably because they're helping to secularize their society and there's lots of very wealthy and powerful men who don't want that. That's all this is.
the problem is pre-existing conditions. The current administration is allowing Texas' challenge to the ACA's pre-existing condition mandate to proceed unchallenged. It is very likely to end with the law being declared unconstitutional (elections have consequences and all that rot).
Prior to the ACA there were multiple instances of people in their 40s, 50s and 60s getting skin cancer and being denied care because they had acne medication when they were teenagers. The justification was that the the "acne" was in fact cancerous lesions.
If you think there's something wrong with that you're right. The only solution is to vote people who support single payer in. The hodge podge system we have now is going to collapse because it is being _made_ to collapse. So long as we don't have healthcare as a basic right someone will take it away for profit..
But the single payer folks now need overwhelming power thanks to our current SCOTUS, which is likely to cry the 10th Amendment on any legislation. We'll need to first get Medicare for All passed and then follow it up with a constitutional amendment guaranteeing all Americans healthcare. Otherwise we'll have to wait 40 years for the SCOTUS to change hands. We've got 45,000 people dying every year for lack of health care. If you're reading this you might be next. We can't wait that long.
they go out of their way to block Canada to US sales for just that reason. A lot of folks I know go down to Mexico. If they've got family that knows how to navigate their healthcare system is works well. That works for Canada to a certain extent. Canada has "Healthcare refugees" who move to Canada with their spouses because otherwise they can't get care. There several videos on youtube about it.
I've got friends and family who have long term illnesses in America and have spent their entire lives struggling to get the care they need to live. But at least 20% of Americans are convinced that taxes will go up if we switch to single payer (even adjusting for the cost of healthcare from their employer). A lot of these are ex-military and people on Medicare who "got theirs, fark me" too, which doesn't help.
I think the hodgepodge is about to collapse though. The Republican party is currently gutting the VA (Trump's Admin just closed a whole bunch of sites and did general funding cuts). They've been chipping away at Medicare too (they did the Plan-B stuff under Bush and Paul Ryan & Co have been conditioning the electorate to believe we can't afford it). Meanwhile Trump's Admin has allowed a challenge to the ACA's pre-existing coverage requirement to go forward unchallenged. It will probably make it up to the SCOTUS where the newly minted judges appointed by Trump will kill it. That means we'll be back to the days when you can't change jobs without permanently losing access to health care.
If the Dems take the house this might be slowed for a few years, but eventually the legal challenges will make it to the Superme Court where they right wing judges will shut it down. Eventually they'll challenge Medicare and that'll be that. At that point our only option will be no healthcare for anyone but the very wealthy.
The question is, what then? Will we slide into a third world winner take all economy? That seems to be where we're heading. I'm expecting to be dead (I'm 40 and men in my family are not long lived no matter what) and my kid will hopefully have a STEM degree and will move to Canada but otherwise we're going to need a constitutional amendment to fix this mess.
It was the GP that made the point that Bezos only makes $80k a year. I submit to you that the GP is the one pushing a narrative that Bezos is a humble working man who leaves the bulk of his fortune to the people. My point is that is a false narrative meant to distract from the enormous money grab him and others like him are doing.
I heard you like quantums, so we modeled quantums in your quantum computer so you can model quantums with your quantums.
Come on, I couldn't be the only one thinking it...
how does he afford these? Hud housing? I make $80k/yr and I'm stuck in an apartment until my kid graduates from college.
It's not just numbers in a computer. Money is _power_. He's literally got the power to reshape society and bend it to his whims. People with that kind of money use it to make other people do what they're told. And if you don't fall in line they buy off a group of thugs to make sure you do, or else.
At Jeff's level the scam is very simple. He's allowed to borrow money from banks at negative interest rates (well, below the rate he could just loan it back out for anyway). This is how the top 1% avoid paying taxes. They've taken control of the banking system and use it to hide the enormous amounts of wealthy they've claimed on the backs of you and me.
Jeff built his fortune on the backs of guys like this. Amazon's enormous worth is predicated on the assumption by the investors that he's going to do what he did to that guy to everybody while jacking up the prices once he runs everybody out of business. If we're going to do something about a future where we all work until we have a stroke now's the time.
This is about a computer system used to track scores for people social standing. There is nothing more techy that that. It's just techy in a dystopian way.
parts of Michigan (Flint, bits of Detroit) and large swaths of our deep Southern states are as bad as anything you'll find in China with rampant (and cancerous) pollution, barely functional schools and slavery in the form of private prisons with work "programs". There's not as much of it, but we're also about 1/4 the size of China. Also, where China seems to be trying to fix their problems (I say "seems", who knows if they really are) we're getting worse, not better.
or whatever gadget you're typing it on? Are you OK with paying more for virtually everything? Say about 10-20% more?
I am, since I think it'll raise my wages if we have to compete fairly with China. But most folks I talk to are so close to going bankrupt (60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck) that there's no way they'd support that.
it's a dictatorship. Nothing, and I mean _nothing_ about China is communist. Not even a little bit. For Christ's sake, they're our biggest trading partner. They have more millionaires and billionaires than the US does (to be fair that's mostly up to their large population, but the point still stands, millionaires wouldn't exist in a communist dictatorship).
Oh, and China no longer controls birth rates. They've finished emptying out the villages and they need the kids again.
for single payer healthcare in America here comes another. And just to be clear, the article linked is talking about Medicaid, which is what poor people get, not _Medicare_, which is free healthcare old people get so that when they go to the polls they vote against free healthcare for everybody else.
worth $150 Billion and he's got employees like this...
from public Universities. I was in college in the 90s when this crap started and remember the school paper talking to the economics professors who pointed out that without the subsidies tuition would hit $12k+/yr by 2020. They were wrong, we hit that in 2016 when my kid hit college.
College was _always_ this expensive. It didn't go up in price any more than inflation. The federal government was subsidizing education. They stopped doing that so they could give tax cuts to billionaires.
Trump is very much a member of the ruling class. He's a billionaire who sites on golden thrones. Swing states haven't changed since I was a kid. I'm 40.
You're twisting the logic. This is a common right wing tactic pioneered by Karl Rove in the United States and the Soviets before him. Why should somebody in Montana be able to force their politics on the more populace California? How the hell is that Democracy?
don't call them centrists. They're right wing. Calling them centrists makes them sound reasonable when they're not. Call a spade a spade and a right wing Democrat right wing.