There's another good reason why there's no free market in health care: It's too hard to comparison shop.
Ever get a bad Twinkie? You know, one of the Generic brands that just isn't very good? Maybe you tried two or three brands before you found one you like better than Twinkies. Me, I like the Safeway brand better than the Hostess one.
Now, try doing that for a heart transplant. See, you don't have enough information. It takes one taste to know a bad Twinkie and you're out $3 bucks for a pack of 'em. It takes 8 years to know what goes into a heart transplant and you're probably only gonna ever have the one.
Hilary just called them out (and their stock dropped as a result). Still, I'll believe it when I see it. She's pretty pro-business and anti-consumer. Hell, she was a republican until her husband decided to run as a Democrat.
because children are mentally fragile. This isn't rocket science. People will limit themselves base on their perception of themselves. If they think they're average they'll be average. Better to have some folks running around trying too hard then all our geniuses doing squat all because we dumped on them when they were young.
Says this is all just a smoke screen to fire their better paid profs so they can bring on cheaper ones. There's no talk of profits going down, heavens no.
For my money raise taxes on the rich. They make their money on the backs of the workers, they should pay to train them. Don't like it? Leave.
Bill moved the dems hard right so they could win elections after the lost the blue collar guys to social issues and the welfare queen rhetoric. The Republicans had to go further right to maintain a distinct identity..
Is a 16 year old kid capable of denying treatment? What about 13? 10? 7? Where do you draw the line, especially when it's a completely treatable illness that kills if left untreated?
The reason I think being authoritarian is the best approach in certain times is because it objectively is. Let me explain:
I have a close family member who's a cancer survivor. She is a child. She received treatment and she is fine now (more or less).
There are sizable numbers of people who would have not treated her and instead prayed to God. She would have died. That is a fact. What ever else you believe or don't believe that is a fact.
This is not hypothetical. There have been cases where folks with strong religion had their children taken away from them because they choose to "Trust in the Lord".
I know you've got a dozen things to say to my story above about how/why it was OK to be authoritarian in the cases above. But the fact is you're being authoritarian. There is such a thing as an authority. It's possible to be right and it's possible to be wrong.
Then again you might just wash your hands. Sorting out right and wrong is _hard_. It requires real work and real compromises. It's much, much easier to just wash your hands and say "Oh fuck it, I don't want to impose my beliefs". It's especially seductive because it lets you ignore all the real world suffering by telling yourself you'd only make things worse. But that's a half assed cop out that doesn't save any lives.
because most folks don't. Nowadays if you want to move up you need to get promoted (maybe) or more likely move to a new position/company. Even if you get "raises" they're likely 2-2.5%. Given that inflation's around 3% (5-7%% if you only look at necessities like food, shelter, health care, education and transportation) that's basically a paycut every year. What you generally _won't_ see is real paycuts, because they're bad press.
So would you please stop spreading this nonsense that everytime workers get something good it will just be taken away from them. Hell, let's assume your B.S. is true. Doesn't that mean we're in a massive race to the bottom and an unwinable solution? Wouldn't that mean that workers have fundamentally lost the ability to bargain effectively? If you're OK with going back to a early 1900s style dystopian then fine. Say that and be done. Otherwise the only option is broad scale socialist reforms to restore the balance you claim is gone.
in my life. The threat to Academia is our non-stop budget cuts driven by right wing politics and an overall anti elitist attitude (even against people who are legitimately elite and contribute their talents to society). For what I wish was the last God Damned Time people who are that fucking smart are _not_ in it for the money. They're not in it for those fat fat gov't grants. These people are so much more intelligent than you and me that money is just a means to their intellectual ends. Einstein was a patent clerk for fucks sake.
Yes, Academia is severely threatened right now; but not by better job offers...
Won't that just be money laundering? You'll buy bit coin with your paypal or Credit card then pay the site for the illegal activity (like it or not, what these sites are doing isn't legal). That sounds like money laundering to me, and that's going to get a lot of attention real fast...
you're forgetting about Chargeback risk. The trouble is I can dispute charges on my credit card (it's a loan after all). It's entirely possible these are very high risk transactions, kinda like "Gentleman's Clubs" are, which most processors won't do business with for just that reason.
If a criminal had a gun and I had a gun how does my having a gun remove his? I suppose if I could do one of those truck shots like they do in the movies and shoot it out of his hands... Don't get me wrong, I'm opposed to gun control. Not because I think it's a bad idea but because of that kind of silly reasoning. The pro gun lobby is pretty unreasonable. They're single issue voters who throw away economic issues to cling to their gun based lifestyle. Bill Clinton noticed that and asked the democrats to back off on the issue so they could go back to winning elections and fixing the economy. Notice how Obama hasn't done anything on the issue?
Because you have complex applications that run in a browser that you would like to use. HTML5/JavaScript Games come to mind. Chrome runs Bastion. Desktop Apps inside a browser make it possible to be indifferent about your operating system. We finally get the 'write once, run everywhere' that programmers have been promised for decades. That's only possible if it not only works, but is fast enough to replace native apps.
to make Americans OK with all the horror in the world it's pretty impressive how cynical we are. Remember, the/. crowd isn't what's worrying this guy, it's the every day non technical joe. When I was a kid I was taught how wonderful the world was. For anyone that's middle class in America it still is. That number's getting smaller and smaller, but it's still there. What's got this guy worried is that even the folks who are doing well are cynical and don't trust him.
It's not surprising though. In an effort to gut the reforms made Post WWII (New Deal, GI Bill etc) that created our large middle class we've been shitting on the gov't non stop talking about how scary scary scary they are. The 1% haven't quite figured out how to get us to differentiate between the bad kind of gov't (Social Programs, Public Schools, Protection for Union Membership, etc) and the good kind (Round the Clock Surveillance,.unlimited campaign funds, low oversight defense contracts, etc)
Right, but when you fail that security check for any reason ( say a DWI you had 20 years ago that you forgot to report on your application) that's when their not giving a shit kicks in.
But if they run out of h1-bs they'll settle. A college degree is a quick n dirty way to weed out the unstable. At the very least you know the were reliable enough to make it through a four year degree Companies don't give a shit about your back story.
because all I see are a bunch of dictatorships who borrowed some of Marx's words. And please, don't trot out that old "No True Scottsman" bullshit. There is such a thing as misrepresenting yourself. If I say I'm I lawyer that's misrepresenting, because I didn't pass the bar. If you say Stalin was a commie that's misrepresenting, because he followed none of Marx's tenets.
Not that I'm a communism. What the hell do I care if you own property so long as you don't abuse that ownership to my determent. That's what socialism is about. You get to own stuff, but we regulate it so you can't use it to take advantage of people.
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There's another good reason why there's no free market in health care: It's too hard to comparison shop.
Ever get a bad Twinkie? You know, one of the Generic brands that just isn't very good? Maybe you tried two or three brands before you found one you like better than Twinkies. Me, I like the Safeway brand better than the Hostess one.
Now, try doing that for a heart transplant. See, you don't have enough information. It takes one taste to know a bad Twinkie and you're out $3 bucks for a pack of 'em. It takes 8 years to know what goes into a heart transplant and you're probably only gonna ever have the one.
Hilary just called them out (and their stock dropped as a result). Still, I'll believe it when I see it. She's pretty pro-business and anti-consumer. Hell, she was a republican until her husband decided to run as a Democrat.
because children are mentally fragile. This isn't rocket science. People will limit themselves base on their perception of themselves. If they think they're average they'll be average. Better to have some folks running around trying too hard then all our geniuses doing squat all because we dumped on them when they were young.
First off this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=jackie+chan+wrong&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Next off for some actual support: http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/09/california-governor-schools-gop-presidential-candidate-on-climate-change/
Drops mic. Leaves.
Grandparent said they were letting some of their "top professors" go, but maybe that's not true.
Says this is all just a smoke screen to fire their better paid profs so they can bring on cheaper ones. There's no talk of profits going down, heavens no.
For my money raise taxes on the rich. They make their money on the backs of the workers, they should pay to train them. Don't like it? Leave.
Bill moved the dems hard right so they could win elections after the lost the blue collar guys to social issues and the welfare queen rhetoric. The Republicans had to go further right to maintain a distinct identity..
Is a 16 year old kid capable of denying treatment? What about 13? 10? 7? Where do you draw the line, especially when it's a completely treatable illness that kills if left untreated?
The reason I think being authoritarian is the best approach in certain times is because it objectively is. Let me explain:
I have a close family member who's a cancer survivor. She is a child. She received treatment and she is fine now (more or less).
There are sizable numbers of people who would have not treated her and instead prayed to God. She would have died. That is a fact. What ever else you believe or don't believe that is a fact.
This is not hypothetical. There have been cases where folks with strong religion had their children taken away from them because they choose to "Trust in the Lord".
I know you've got a dozen things to say to my story above about how/why it was OK to be authoritarian in the cases above. But the fact is you're being authoritarian. There is such a thing as an authority. It's possible to be right and it's possible to be wrong.
Then again you might just wash your hands. Sorting out right and wrong is _hard_. It requires real work and real compromises. It's much, much easier to just wash your hands and say "Oh fuck it, I don't want to impose my beliefs". It's especially seductive because it lets you ignore all the real world suffering by telling yourself you'd only make things worse. But that's a half assed cop out that doesn't save any lives.
I could see that being used as something to give the H1-Bs an edge needed to keep them coming.
"But we couldn't find a qualified American who had watched all 10,000 hours of educational video on our site. We _had_ to have an H1-B"...
Simple, ain't it?
because most folks don't. Nowadays if you want to move up you need to get promoted (maybe) or more likely move to a new position/company. Even if you get "raises" they're likely 2-2.5%. Given that inflation's around 3% (5-7%% if you only look at necessities like food, shelter, health care, education and transportation) that's basically a paycut every year. What you generally _won't_ see is real paycuts, because they're bad press.
So would you please stop spreading this nonsense that everytime workers get something good it will just be taken away from them. Hell, let's assume your B.S. is true. Doesn't that mean we're in a massive race to the bottom and an unwinable solution? Wouldn't that mean that workers have fundamentally lost the ability to bargain effectively? If you're OK with going back to a early 1900s style dystopian then fine. Say that and be done. Otherwise the only option is broad scale socialist reforms to restore the balance you claim is gone.
They're paying like 10-15% in fees.
Tuition? Back in my day we called that training and the company paid you.
in my life. The threat to Academia is our non-stop budget cuts driven by right wing politics and an overall anti elitist attitude (even against people who are legitimately elite and contribute their talents to society). For what I wish was the last God Damned Time people who are that fucking smart are _not_ in it for the money. They're not in it for those fat fat gov't grants. These people are so much more intelligent than you and me that money is just a means to their intellectual ends. Einstein was a patent clerk for fucks sake.
Yes, Academia is severely threatened right now; but not by better job offers...
Won't that just be money laundering? You'll buy bit coin with your paypal or Credit card then pay the site for the illegal activity (like it or not, what these sites are doing isn't legal). That sounds like money laundering to me, and that's going to get a lot of attention real fast...
you're forgetting about Chargeback risk. The trouble is I can dispute charges on my credit card (it's a loan after all). It's entirely possible these are very high risk transactions, kinda like "Gentleman's Clubs" are, which most processors won't do business with for just that reason.
If a criminal had a gun and I had a gun how does my having a gun remove his? I suppose if I could do one of those truck shots like they do in the movies and shoot it out of his hands... Don't get me wrong, I'm opposed to gun control. Not because I think it's a bad idea but because of that kind of silly reasoning. The pro gun lobby is pretty unreasonable. They're single issue voters who throw away economic issues to cling to their gun based lifestyle. Bill Clinton noticed that and asked the democrats to back off on the issue so they could go back to winning elections and fixing the economy. Notice how Obama hasn't done anything on the issue?
Because you have complex applications that run in a browser that you would like to use. HTML5/JavaScript Games come to mind. Chrome runs Bastion. Desktop Apps inside a browser make it possible to be indifferent about your operating system. We finally get the 'write once, run everywhere' that programmers have been promised for decades. That's only possible if it not only works, but is fast enough to replace native apps.
to make Americans OK with all the horror in the world it's pretty impressive how cynical we are. Remember, the /. crowd isn't what's worrying this guy, it's the every day non technical joe. When I was a kid I was taught how wonderful the world was. For anyone that's middle class in America it still is. That number's getting smaller and smaller, but it's still there. What's got this guy worried is that even the folks who are doing well are cynical and don't trust him.
.unlimited campaign funds, low oversight defense contracts, etc)
It's not surprising though. In an effort to gut the reforms made Post WWII (New Deal, GI Bill etc) that created our large middle class we've been shitting on the gov't non stop talking about how scary scary scary they are. The 1% haven't quite figured out how to get us to differentiate between the bad kind of gov't (Social Programs, Public Schools, Protection for Union Membership, etc) and the good kind (Round the Clock Surveillance,
Right, but when you fail that security check for any reason ( say a DWI you had 20 years ago that you forgot to report on your application) that's when their not giving a shit kicks in.
But if they run out of h1-bs they'll settle. A college degree is a quick n dirty way to weed out the unstable. At the very least you know the were reliable enough to make it through a four year degree Companies don't give a shit about your back story.
What? We were all thinking it.
because all I see are a bunch of dictatorships who borrowed some of Marx's words. And please, don't trot out that old "No True Scottsman" bullshit. There is such a thing as misrepresenting yourself. If I say I'm I lawyer that's misrepresenting, because I didn't pass the bar. If you say Stalin was a commie that's misrepresenting, because he followed none of Marx's tenets.
Not that I'm a communism. What the hell do I care if you own property so long as you don't abuse that ownership to my determent. That's what socialism is about. You get to own stuff, but we regulate it so you can't use it to take advantage of people.
I don't understand. Can someone translate this to car analogy?