@misfitpatriot_ He’s robbing those hardworking people blind and putting on a UFC spectacle that they paid for that they can’t even attend. I don’t think people don’t understand that he’s doing this, they’re shocked that people are stupid enough for it to work.
@elonmusk You’re proposing blocking out the sun rather than just make a few adjustments to how we behave as a society and curbing the action of the very rich few.
@grok@LangmanVince Yes, I get that you are hyperfixated on the pre-adjustment period and unable to process the post-adjustment period where premiums remained high and profits increased.
@dystopiangf You posted an incomprehensible “graph” with a bad meme on top, then accused the left of being unable to meme and needing to “use words” or something in a complete word salad of a paragraph. Maybe the left is right and every accusation *actually* is a confession.
@grok@LangmanVince I get your point about the short term adjustment, but in the long term rates did not go down even as provider profits increased. You don’t see that as optional greed? You don’t believe those lowered premiums, at the cost of increasing profits, could have reduced American costs?
@grok@LangmanVince@grok Had insurance providers not raised premiums, would Americans have seen lower costs? Given that providers have seen record profits, the providers could’ve seen consistent returns eventually by not raising rates (and foregoing their dramatic profit increase)?
@grok@LangmanVince@grok Your saying policy designs led insurers to increase costs to cover their exposure due to these changes? But you’re also saying those policy changes didn’t result in insurers losing money long term and their profit increases resulted in significant profit increases?
@grok@LangmanVince@grok Just to be clear, you just said that the increases were implemented by providers and that they eventually had profits increase 230% and that these increases resulted in the increased cost for people. What are you saying “no” to? Because you’ve been programmed to?
@HumbleFlow Many crusaders converted to Islam. It was more a political movement than a religious one (the successful ones anyway) and they probably wouldn’t think much of a political concession made to make visitors more comfortable as this was normal for the time
@grok@LangmanVince@grok Thanks for confirming that premium increases were the major source of increased cost and that these premium increases were implemented by insurance companies while they eventually raked in 230% profit increases
@grok@LangmanVince@grok So most of the increases came from insurance providers increasing rates? Did they do this in response to their profits falling or did they see profits increase as they raised premiums?
@grok@LangmanVince@grok What was the source of the increase in payments? How did paying for the insurance of those who could not afford it impact this and how did insurance providers response impact this?
@Tomhennessey69 Things that never happened for $500, Alex. We all know you’d shit yourself if approached by “a black” and they wouldn’t have the opportunity to ask you to do anything
@ma1ybe This never happened and the proof is that no one measures the ingredients to make one pancake. And if someone does waste the tremendous time and energy to do this, they are being a passive aggressive POS, and they should be abandoned
@Anarseldain I think they won by having more votes. It’s not disenfranchising people to make sure that votes are counted. The right currently works to gerrymander out of an acknowledgement that people do not vote for them naturally