I’m all for universal care. The question is how do we get from here to there.
How much paper work do doctors have to do today to get paid by Trad Medicare ? Don’t look at the macro to start. Look to see what happens to doctors, clinics, hospitals, particularly rural hospitals.
What happens to them ? Are you sure those savings will apply when every care giver is billing Medicare at a scale they have never seen. When every American is using every bit of care they possibly can.
How will you cost it. If you think the Feds can easily negotiate better prices , just look at the contracts tricare negotiated. Or read the comments on state negotiated PBMs that I posted. You sure you are going to get the best negotiators that know what they are doing that are better than the vendors ?
Thats not been the case the last decade, at least
Who runs it ? Another political appointee? A board like the fed reserve that has also been politicized ?
The last thing any proponent of universal care should want is ridiculous plug numbers in studies that are used to sell voters.
All it will do is disappoint if it passes, and that leads to the other party doing things like ending the individual mandate or premium credits Or being one John McCain vote from a path to repealing the ACA.
There is every reason to believe the same would happen with universal care.
Unless, there is buy in, at a detailed level , by all stakeholders. Not just those from one party or the other.
Holy shit. A THOUSAND TRADES A MONTH.
50 trades per day. This is a TEAM.
He hired professional traders to use inside information to make money for him on the stock market while he uses every lever in the federal toolkit to pump up equity prices.
Staggering organized crime.
Backstreet aged way better in a somewhat surprising way. They were always the better musicians but I not as popular at their peak. I still hear their music regularly in different settings
I see some of us responding to this with pride like Rogan isn’t a racist. And notice he didn’t mention intellectuals or leaders, just people he finds entertaining. Previously he praised a biracial guest because he combined “The body of a Black man with the mind of a white man.” He described a Black neighborhood as “the planet of the apes.” A worthless idiot like this isn’t even fit to pay us a compliment. We should want better for ourselves.
Soccer refs: We 3D-scanned all 1,248 players before the tournament, track every limb 50 times a second, and can confirm you are offside by a toenail. No goal.
Soccer refs: Added time? I'm thinking... seven minutes. Actually, ten. Could be twelve. Hard to say really.
BREAKING: The Senate just voted 52-47 to let Trump bomb Iran without Congressional approval.
The Founders gave war powers to Congress for one reason:
To make sure no single man could start a war alone.
That protection just died in the Senate.
NEW: Secrecy around the 2024 election autopsy is dogging the DNC’s Ken Martin w/more than a dozen members & leaders telling us they want it out.
“Genuinely, what did you all find that we did not?” NC party Chair Anderson Clayton said.
Me & @JonAllenDC https://t.co/phh10D2Ihx
Homelander has been like that since season 1, and even earlier than that in the original comic book (where, among other things, he stages a coup and successfully overthrows the US government), which ended in 2012.
The problem is Trump behaves like a deranged comic book villain.
This woman carried 47's sex offending water for a FULL year, obstructing justice left and right, bringing frivolous suit after frivolous suit against all his known enemies...and he can't even get her past Resurrection Sunday?!?!
me to a group of lawyers: so what do you think, guys? am I gonna get 6-12 inches this weekend?
everyone: .......
me: *realizing*
lawyer: not from me, that's for sure.
me *bowing head as everyone laughs*: goddamnit.
lawyer: I'm just sayin'.
me: I knew the moment I said it...