Actually, some form of Universal Care could be cheaper, offer better care, and be less bureaucratic.
But the Democrats think if you just write the legislation, that makes it so. It doesn't
Because other countries do it, it must be easy for us to do it.
Problem in this country is no one really knows what medical care or drugs cost.
Everything related to the cost of care has been made intentionally opague. It's a business strategy at every step. Every healthcare contract has a confidentially clause.
Hospitals don't know how to allocate costs to determine their true cost
If you don't know what the cost of what the government wants to buy from you, and the government doesn't know what the fully burdened cost they will pay is. And we don't know how high end hospitals can offer the same level of care at Medicare pricing. Etc etc etc
And of course every insurance company and big hospital system will tie up the legislation in courts for decades.
Ideology is not a strategy. Until there is transparency so a budget can be attempted , and the influence of the huge HC conglomerates is diminished , universal healthcare isn't achievable.
I don't say this lightly. Saying cases in which the molestation of children and women within some SBC churches was a "hoax" is truly wicked and demonic stuff #SBC26
There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man."
A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life.
Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.
The lack of morning weather balloons launched across the western and central U.S. is having a real, tangible impact on degrading forecast quality.
We can't look at weather balloon data that doesn't exist. We can't pump nonexistent data into models. We can't rely as heavily on models that don't "know" what's happening above our heads.
Today's severe weather forecast is less certain because we don't have weather balloon data to confirm the strength of jet stream winds aloft.
This is extremely frustrating, and is the result of logistical, organizational, political and budgetary decisions.
Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive, gutted USAID, which supports some of the poorest people in the world.
Now there's an Ebola outbreak in the Congo, which USAID could have helped prevent or slow.
When you dismantle the systems that stop deadly diseases, people needlessly die.
Series finale episodes are so hard to live up to. The writers of Hacks deserve an Emmy for the finale, along with Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder. Absolute perfection! #Hacks
“If we erase January 6th, it didn’t happen”
“If we don’t release certain inflation data, there’s no inflation”
“If we don’t measure food insecurity, no one’s hungry”
“If we delete research on right-wing violence, there’s no right-wing violence”
“If we stop Covid testing, we’ll have fewer cases”
The Trump administration wants you to believe their propaganda is fact, and control the majority of mainstream media and social platforms to reinforce their lies.
This is what authoritarianism looks like.
If insurance companies can deny care and call it "medically unnecessary", why aren't they required to have malpractice insurance doe when they get it wrong and someone gets sicker or tragically dies ?
@ArlanKels@BluekandyWX That is a fair point....just rewatched the El Reno tornado coverage and the first death was someone trying to flee because they were claustrophobic and couldn't handle the emergency shelter.
@BluekandyWX@MaxVelocityWX The best part about Max and Ryan's you tube is that they add to the lead time to get to safety. I think telling people to leave and drive to safety is great - just add safeguards like..."it is "6:08" right now if you are hearing this make sure you are hearing it live"..IMO
Some conservative Christians really will obsess over the moral failings of a barely influential gay pastor as evidence of theological rot while completely ignoring or downplaying the fact that the most important and influential Southern Baptist in decades raped young men.