VRex

Doing good for others, seeing all the beauty in life, staying healthy and strong. Retired Emergency Physician. Mother of 2. 🇺🇸

[VRex @Vidaliscious]

This is the answer

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

I keep hearing Democrats whine "If you don't like the ACA, come up with something better!" Most conservatives would honestly say "nothing" - just torching the whole disaster would drop prices. But you know me, I can't leave well enough alone. So here's my alternative: THE AMERICAN HEALTHCARE FREEDOM ACT. Fair warning though - this is going to make progressive heads explode because it relies on this crazy little thing called the free market.

Here's a brain teaser for you. Your car insurance doesn't pay for oil changes. Your home insurance doesn't cover a broken water heater. Why? Because those are PREDICTABLE maintenance costs, not catastrophic events requiring actual insurance. So why on God's green earth does health "insurance" work completely backwards? Oh right, because the government got involved and decided to reinvent basic economics. How's that working out for everyone's premiums?

Step one: SUPERCHARGED HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNTS. We're talking $10,000/year individual and $20,000/family contribution limits with UNLIMITED carryover. Use YOUR money for gym memberships, nutrition counseling, Direct Primary Care memberships, telehealth, over-the-counter medications - whatever keeps YOU healthy. It's your money. Radical concept, I know. And here's the kicker for employers - since actual catastrophic insurance would cost a fraction of current premiums, businesses could contribute to or match HSA contributions while STILL saving money. Employees get portable benefits they actually OWN instead of golden handcuffs tying them to jobs they hate.

Step two: REAL INSURANCE FOR REAL EMERGENCIES. Catastrophic coverage handles what insurance is SUPPOSED to handle - surgeries, hospitalizations, cancer treatment, the stuff that would actually bankrupt you. Not your annual checkup. Not your blood pressure medication you've taken for fifteen years. Actual unexpected disasters.

Step three - and this is where the left completely loses their minds - BEHAVIOR-BASED PRICING. Just like auto insurance! Non-smoker? Enjoy 15-25% off. Maintain a healthy BMI? Another 10-15% discount. Here's one that'll really cook their noodles: if you DON'T use your insurance, your premiums go DOWN the following year. You know, exactly like car insurance rewards safe drivers who don't crash into things. Revolutionary stuff, apparently. The whole system rewards good choices instead of forcing responsible people to subsidize everyone else's bad decisions.

Now I can already hear the pearl-clutching about pre-existing conditions. Calm down. First off, when pricing is based primarily on BEHAVIORS rather than conditions you were born with, most of that concern evaporates anyway. But for the edge cases? Maintain continuous coverage for 18 months and you cannot be denied or charged more when switching plans. Period. State high-risk pools handle folks who genuinely cannot get coverage in the standard market. And once you HAVE a policy, insurers cannot drop you or jack up your rates because you got sick. Problem solved without destroying the entire concept of insurance.

Step four: MANDATORY PRICE TRANSPARENCY. Every single provider posts their prices like a restaurant menu. Bundled pricing for common procedures - knee replacement includes surgery, anesthesia, hospital stay, and physical therapy, all in one number they have to honor. Crazy thought: let people actually SHOP for healthcare. Surgery centers that already do this charge 50-80% LESS than hospitals playing hide-the-ball with pricing. Turns out competition works. Who knew?

Step five: BAN DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER DRUG ADVERTISING. Only the United States and New Zealand allow pharmaceutical companies to advertise prescription medications directly to consumers. That's it. Two countries on the entire planet. Redirect that $6+ billion annually from "ask your doctor about..." commercials into R&D or price reductions. Your doctor should be recommending medications based on your health, not because you saw a commercial during Jeopardy.

The ACA's fundamental stupidity was thinking the solution to expensive healthcare was having the government pay for expensive healthcare. That's like solving high housing costs by having Uncle Sam buy everyone a house - all you do is drive prices through the roof. Quinn's First Law nails it perfectly: "Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent." The "Affordable" Care Act made healthcare 38% MORE EXPENSIVE than pre-ACA trends according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Spectacular failure right there.

OF course, there is more to this, so feel free if you have questions about the details.

But what do I know, I'm only someone who noticed that every industry drowning in government price controls sees skyrocketing costs while every industry with actual competition gets cheaper and better every single year. Weird how that pattern keeps repeating itself.

#HealthcareFreedom #HSA #FreeMarketHealthcare #ACAFailed #MAGA #Trump #Democrats #VoteBlue #MedicareForAll #BreakingNews #TrendingNow #Viral #Obamacare #HealthcareReform

[Art @ZarkFiles]

Communism through (my) ages:
1) When I was 15, a teacher told me "It isn't as bad as they say, and makes a lot of sense."
2) At about 19, college friends, "Socialism isn't communism."
3) At 20, on meeting my grandfather-in-law, "They are evil. We escaped in 1949."
4) At 30, "China is a wonderful developing Democracy"
5) At 35, I was sent to communist China on business. It was a crowded, smelly, dirty, factory of despair and hopelessness. This I saw with my own eyes.
6) At 36, "China doesn't count. Successful socialism is in northern Europe."
7) I moved to northern Europe when I was 40. It was much nicer than China, but also felt like I was living in the past. I had to wait 6 months for a hernia operation.
8) When I was about 45, the migrant crisis began. The socialist/globalist/pacifist allowed them entry into every country, regardless how many crimes they committed along the way. Just 20 minutes from my house, in Calais, I was shocked to see migrants jumping onto trucks, breaking open the doors, scattering the contents across the highway, then climbing in. They went through the Chunnel and got out in England.
9) At 52, the soft socialism around me had transformed into globalism. I was told I had to call people by their preferred pronouns, though it was a lie, and even if I didn't know what the preferences were. I quit.
10) I returned to the US, and am now 60. "Socialism" is no longer a dirty word here. People openly espouse the virtues of it. Politicians run as socialists and win.

Socialism has taken many forms, from the Bolshevism of Russia, to the CCP in China, the Nazis in Germany, Fascists in Italy, and the many forms of it found in Latin America. It is one of the two most destructive ideologies on earth. It is designed to deprive, despirit, and murder everything that comes in contact with it.

Socialism is a great lie at every level. It helps no one, not even those who benefit the most. This is because the cost is the imposition of one's will on everyone else, and that destroys the soul of the usurper and the life of the oppressed.

Socialism always fails on its own, but only after destroying almost everything in its train. It can also be conquered. Those are the options.

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Trump needs to have trash cans like this at the National Mall! 😂😂😂

[VRex @Vidaliscious]

@NizNellie3 @SumSol44 Something wrong w X. I can’t repost your original post

[Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁 💪🏻 @pepesgrandma]

🔥🔥🔥Not Breaking! Our countries communist fate was written inside one document that I have been trying to expose for SIX YEARS now. The suppression of my account for this lengthy period has irreparably harmed America!

Let’s review this, shall we?

🔹Headline:

“Successful Convention Moves DSA to Left”

And what do you get when you push a socialist further left? Communism….

In 2019, the Democratic Socialists of America held a convention that sealed our communist fate. Here’s a sampling of its resolutions.

🔹Anti Ice activist training has been happening for many years now.

Resolution 5

“Defense of Immigrants and Refugees”

“ Abolition of ICE and an end to the persecution, jailing and deportation of immigrants.”

🔹Socialists of America took on Antifa as a paramilitary unit during the 2019 convention. Just in time for the summer of love.

Resolution 9

“Be it therefore resolved, DSA will create a national working group dedicated to antifascist organizing”

🔹The DSA intended to start off small and takeover Ireland first.

Resolution 10

“The Democratic Socialists of America hereby endorses the
unification of Ireland and the creation of a 32 county, democratic socialist, Republic of Ireland.”

🔹 The Trump Resistance is the DSA / Communists

Resolution 13

“Defeating Trump, Trumpism, and Electing Democratic Socialists and Progressives”

🔹 This is where the DSA commandeered the children in our schools and trained them as activists.

Resolution 24

“DSA shall publicly endorse restorative justice in our schools and communities.”

🔹Ending cash bail was a DSA plan folks.

Resolution 28

“The Democratic Socialists of America will begin a national
campaign and form a national committee to promote the abolition of cash bail and
pretrial incarceration.”

🔹Also at the same convention were the resolutions to move the DSA further left. While at the same time, USING the Democrat party as a vehicle.

Resolution 31

“Class Struggle Elections”

“ DSA will use elections, public offices, and legislation as vehicles to encourage working-class organization, promote progressive legislation, and build support for democratic socialist ideas.”

“ DSA is committed to building political organization independent of the Democratic Party and their capitalist donors. Our immediate goal is to create a “candidate pipeline” program for qualified DSA members and potential class-struggle candidates. Such a candidate pipeline will require the allocation of national staff time to build out the program. In the longer term, our goal is to form an independent working-
class party, but for now this does not rule out DSA endorsed candidates running tactically on the Democratic Party ballot line.”

🔹The Democratic Party has become increasing pro Palestine. Here’s why 👇🏻

Resolution 35

“Establish a National BDS and Palestine Solidarity Working Group”

🔹The District Attorneys plan has been under your noses all along.

Resolution 36

“Engaging with District Attorney Races to Fight Incarceration and Capitalist Power”

🔹Stepped up pro abortion activism was no accident.

Resolution 38

“Fight for Abortion Access”

🔹Green energy during the Biden admin was no accident either.

Resolution 41

“As part of supporting and campaigning for the Green New Deal, DSA will advocate taking the major fossil fuel energy companies into democratic public ownership and to reallocate their massive resources into clean, renewable energy such as solar, wind, and geothermal.”

🔹Finally, a resolution that hasn’t been attained yet. Decolonization

Resolution 50

“DSA will commit to the full decolonization of all the
occupied lands of the so-called USA: self determination and full sovereignty for Hawaii;
Puerto Rico; Amerika Sāmoa; Guåhån; Northern Mariana Islands; Virgin Islands; and to
all Indigenous nations whose ancestral lands are within the USA’s current borders; and
independence to all other overseas territories and dependencies controlled, occupied, or otherwise exploited.

[Brenden Dilley @WarlordDilley]

People still don't realize what is happening...

The socialist democrats aren't the future of America. They're setting a path in motion that nobody will be able to stop... The radical communists are compelling a demand for a much more aggressive conservative leader after President Trump.

The pendulum is already swinging back faster than most anticipated. President Trump is truly the moderate, rational, stately option.

...the future will be a much more savage, aggressive and hardline Republican who will not operate with Trump's restraint.

This person should scare the ever living shit out of the left, but they're too stupid to see it.

Bookmark this.

[Stephen Miller @StephenM]

Change the voters, change the country.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

@gatorgar FYI .@elonmusk ... I try to not to ping you often, but believe this is worth your attention

[VRex @Vidaliscious]

@EndWokeness If your choice is DSA vs MAGA…what is your pick…!

[Scott Herndon @HerndonforIdaho]

Today the Supreme Court ruled on a family that lost a $194,400 home over a disputed $2,242 tax bill. It held the Constitution does not require paying you your home's real value. The property tax is the only tax that can take your home. This is why the Idaho Republican Party voted to end it. #idleg

[VRex @Vidaliscious]

@SLOTUS @realJeremyCarl Savvy saver! What a great role model! Thank you

[VRex @Vidaliscious]

@MikeJohnson

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Daraliza Avila Chevalier is a founder of CUAD.

The organization’s stated intentions is to “undermine and eradicate America,” through the use of “violence in America.”

She’s now the Democrat nominee for NY-13.

[VRex @Vidaliscious]

WTAF

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Daraliza Avila Chevalier is a founder of CUAD.

The organization’s stated intentions is to “undermine and eradicate America,” through the use of “violence in America.”

She’s now the Democrat nominee for NY-13.

[Buckle up! 45/47 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 @robmce23Trump45]

@DSA_Watch Mamdani's election emboldened those assholes to demand Muslim teachings here in Texas. They're even trying to sleep history by saying the Alamo was based on Islam teachings. THE ALAMO!!! 😡🙄

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

HOLY SMOKES: President Trump just ENDED the careers of both James Talarico and Jon Ossoff in ONE POST

I LOVE IT 🔥

[VRex @Vidaliscious]

@rising_serpent And donates the win to America First!

[VRex @Vidaliscious]

@sellthedip6 Been doing it since 2013… amazing how much I’ve saved

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

@SenMarkey What does non-binary mean? What does transgender mean? Thanks in advance

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

A true medical miracle just happened. Daniel Cressy, 23, just became the first person in Louisiana—and the entire Gulf South—to be functionally cured of sickle cell disease using CRISPR gene editing.

Doctors collected his stem cells, edited them with Casgevy to boost fetal hemoglobin production, eliminated the diseased cells, and infused the corrected cells back into his body. The result?
No active sickle cell disease.
No more debilitating pain crises.
No more hospitalizations defining his life.
And perhaps most remarkable of all: his dream of becoming a commercial pilot, once blocked because of sickle cell disease, is now back within reach.

For decades, medicine treated the symptoms. Now we can edit the underlying DNA. Read that again. We are living in an age where a genetic disease can be rewritten at its source. One young man's future was restored.
Thousands more may follow.
Functional cure achieved.
Functional cure achieved.
Future rewritten.
What an incredible time to be alive. 🧬✈️

[VRex @Vidaliscious]

@JOBhakdi Buy low!!!