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J.R. said:Danm, we agree again. Don't disagree on the design of the ACA, but I do like provision where folks with pre existing conditions can get insurance (me for instance)Doc Holliday said:The way healthcare works in the US and how its unlike free markets would be like you and me going to McDonalds, both ordering a Big Mac and them telling you its going to cost $20 and for me its going to cost $10 based on some bs third party. Its the same big mac and the same cost for them to make it. If all business was like this in the US, we'd collapse.J.R. said:this we agree!Doc Holliday said:Our healthcare/insurance system is the opposite of free market capitalism.boognish_bear said:2) United is being sued for making an auto-denier AI program "known by the company to have a 90% error rate, overriding determinations made by the patients' physicians that the expenses were medically necessary." This directly resulted in multiple elderly deaths in midwest
— Damian Caraballo MD (@813JAFERD) December 5, 20244) UNH is most famous for the $35 Ingenix lawsuit in 2000's. In it, they used a database to improperly reimburse MDs for services. The lawsuit used proceeds to start FairHealth
— Damian Caraballo MD (@813JAFERD) December 5, 2024
The way to fix it is to have price transparency. If anyone could go online and see the price for an MRI, surgery, medication etc...those prices would astronomically fall. But DC politicians, insurance providers and healthcare services all work together to prevent this from happening because they would lose billions and trillions in profit over time.
Healthcare insurance should solely exist for catastrophic health issues like Cancer.
Don't even get me started on how Obamacare was designed by the largest providers so they could consolidate and absorb all the marketshare.
BREAKING: Congress is pushing to break up the nation's biggest insurance monopolies after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's murder last week.
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) December 12, 2024
A pair of bipartisan bills seek to force insurers and other healthcare companies to sell off their so-called "pharmacy benefit…
Why does Mark Cuban's 'Cost Plus Pharmacy' come to mind?boognish_bear said:BREAKING: Congress is pushing to break up the nation's biggest insurance monopolies after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's murder last week.
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) December 12, 2024
A pair of bipartisan bills seek to force insurers and other healthcare companies to sell off their so-called "pharmacy benefit…
LIB,MR BEARS said:Yes, wiki.quash said:LIB,MR BEARS said:quash said:LIB,MR BEARS said:from the definition of Humanism "humanism affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives"quash said:
Michael Shermer has a good article in Skeptic comparing Mangione to Kaczinsky.
From the piece:
" I could go on and on with such examples because for at least a century and a half public intellectuals and academic scholars have been predicting the imminent collapse of Western civilization, even as the ideals and institutions that insure its success have grown: science and technology, reason and Enlightenment humanism, democracy and universal franchise, property rights and the rule of law, free enterprise and free trade, and the rights of individuals expanded to include all humans and even members of other sentient species. You would think academics and intellectualsthe very people who promote such valueswould be singing their own praises for such progress; but no, they're gloomier than ever."
Suggests that an appreciation for civilization might reduce the call for revolution and violence.
From another source's definition "The meaning of the term "humanism" has changed according to successive intellectual movements that have identified with it."
Fluid ethics, fluid worth. I should have quit reading at "humanism"
Source for your second definition?
No idea right now. I'll try to find it for you soon
Looks like it was pulled from Wikipedia.
Not sure "fluid ethics" is the takeaway from 600 years of usage in a fairly consistent way but whatever.
The wiki page uses the word "changed". I used the word "fluid".
Six versus half-dozen.
ScottS said:
He deserves the death penalty. An eye for an eye.
The Unibrower?LIB,MR BEARS said:
This goes way deeper. This is NWO stuff. UN trying to control US healthcare
Dude was apparently being directed by UNIBROW
I think he will ask Jill if it's okay.ScottS said:
Think Biden pardons this guy?
Assassin said:I think he will ask Jill if it's okay.ScottS said:
Think Biden pardons this guy?
That's true. All the gals are... and some of the Log Cabin RepublicansFLBear5630 said:Jill is to smitten with Donald to care.Assassin said:I think he will ask Jill if it's okay.ScottS said:
Think Biden pardons this guy?
With hair, albeit it a bit thinFLBear5630 said:
He is a regular John Travolta
Assassin said:I think he will ask Jill if it's okay.ScottS said:
Think Biden pardons this guy?
Married A Horn said:Assassin said:I think he will ask Jill if it's okay.ScottS said:
Think Biden pardons this guy?
I think he will ask Jill who that is.
ScottS said:
He deserves the death penalty. An eye for an eye.
SMHquash said:ScottS said:
He deserves the death penalty. An eye for an eye.
Like Rittenhouse
quash said:ScottS said:
He deserves the death penalty. An eye for an eye.
Like Rittenhouse
The goal of Obamacare was to put private insurance companies/hospitals out of business. https://t.co/esevA793M4
— Pope of Capitalism (@pope_capitalism) December 13, 2024
4th and Inches said:
Thats like saying your honda civic and a Lambo Huricon are the same because they are both cars
good car, not as good as they used to be but nothing isRealitybites said:4th and Inches said:
Thats like saying your honda civic and a Lambo Huricon are the same because they are both cars
True. Nothing alike. 30 years from now, a Civic will still be on the road.
The Civic will still be on the road but will Honda still be in existence?Realitybites said:4th and Inches said:
Thats like saying your honda civic and a Lambo Huricon are the same because they are both cars
True. Nothing alike. 30 years from now, a Civic will still be on the road.
Harrison Bergeron said:quash said:ScottS said:
He deserves the death penalty. An eye for an eye.
Like Rittenhouse
I know you didn't get this troll on TikTok since Greg Abbot banned it. Still idiotic even for you Jr.
Luigi got a successful back surgery that solved his pain and which was covered by insurance, then killed the CEO of a different insurance company. I really think he just lost his mind. pic.twitter.com/N6ikuC2pMg
— Hunter Ash (@ArtemisConsort) December 15, 2024
41% of adults under 30 consider the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson acceptable, more than the 40% in the same demographic who say it’s unacceptable.
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) December 17, 2024
22% of Democrats say they found the killing acceptable, compared to 16% of independents and 12% of Republicans. https://t.co/Z8TO8wwMyC
boognish_bear said:41% of adults under 30 consider the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson acceptable, more than the 40% in the same demographic who say it’s unacceptable.
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) December 17, 2024
22% of Democrats say they found the killing acceptable, compared to 16% of independents and 12% of Republicans. https://t.co/Z8TO8wwMyC
Would they have felt the same way if the CEO had sliced off his "equipment" and was prancing around in a miniskirt?boognish_bear said:41% of adults under 30 consider the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson acceptable, more than the 40% in the same demographic who say it’s unacceptable.
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) December 17, 2024
22% of Democrats say they found the killing acceptable, compared to 16% of independents and 12% of Republicans. https://t.co/Z8TO8wwMyC