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@cash_mccarty @ianmSC That's what they do.
When "winners" lose, they say to themselves, "I lost. I blew it."
When "losers" lose, they congratulate themselves on what a wonderful job they did while losing.
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John Galt
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@Faakew2
No one benefits from seeing a small picture of my face here. Trust me. Me/mine/If I sew gills on my neck, does it make me a fish?
Katılım Eylül 2016
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Not sure that this is an efficient model, requiring everyone to pay for services that they won't/can't use. Insurance companies are REQUIRED to provide the benefits, so they need to charge for it.
It stopped becoming a risk mitigation strategy, which is the entire point of "insurance" and people started expecting it to cover everything. It's now just financing.
"Free" preventative services means that insurance pays the entire bill. You expect them to eat that? No, it all gets charged back in premiums.
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@Faakew2 @HarlemJ11 @LinkofSunshine It's true that most (~55%?) of the new coverage was Medicaid expansion and that many shifted plans. But health care costs grew less in the aftermath. The net effect was higher premiums/deductibles for healthy/high middle income, but better coverage/less junk insurance.
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Dems had a trifecta for like 41 days and immediately gave tens of millions of Americans healthcare
Stephanie Ⓥ@SVcrazycatlady
I remember when this happened in the 2008 election, but we ended up with Republican policies anyway.
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@MTumarkin @MatrixMysteries Indeed, economic ignorance is the biggest problem we have. Or more to the point I guess, is ignorance of human behavior.
I don't know how one can go through life expecting some magical government to support you when you can no longer, or don't want to continue working.
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@Faakew2 @MatrixMysteries Unfortunately I have several friends who retired at 65 not realizing that it wasn't full retirement age and blamed Trump! They got angry when I pointed out that the age chart was updated during the Reagan administration!!!!!
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An American grandmother just opened her Social Security check.
She was barely scraping by.
Then $185 was taken out for Medicare.
Now she’s looking for a job at 67.
Yet there are states that offer FREE healthcare to ILLEGAL immigrants.
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So if I don't carry health insurance, get cancer, I should be able to go by a policy that covers it after I get sick??
How do you think insurance companies stay in business?
I mean, who would buy health insurance if you don't need to? Just get sick, buy a policy, then drop it when the illness is mitigated?
Just because you don't understand how the world actually works, as opposed to your child-like understanding of it, doesn't mean that insurance is a scam.
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@Faakew2 @LinkofSunshine And that doesn’t work because then there are no restrictions on what health insurance companies can do to people who get sick.
They will dumb them for a made up preexisting condition. It’s what they did before ACA and if you get the government out they will do it again.
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Here's the plan...get government out of the relationship. Sell across state lines. Permit minimal plans for catastrophic-only coverage, high-deductible plans, let people choose their coverage levels.
But midwits don't want to hear that, you still believe that there's an undiscovered, magical government solution that will make someone else pay for all your healthcare and only rich people will foot the bill.
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@Faakew2 @LinkofSunshine Look at what healthcare costs were doing before. They were going up at an even faster rate.
Republicans have spent the last 15 years destroying healthcare and blaming democrats.
Republicans still do not have a plan. They never do. They don’t want anything to get better
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@ReddCinema It's a counterweight.
On a lever.
That's all it is, and if that blows your mind....
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I fucking love humans. Imagine the shit we’d come up with if we didn’t have to please shareholders.
Redd@ReddCinema
A French acrobat by the name of Bastien Dausse developed a device that simulates lunar gravity
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Hey Americans on here chiding us in other countries for criticising Trump: he is our business. Petrol in Australia is in short supply & currently costs $2.48 p/l (that’s $9.37 p/gallon.) We didn’t bomb Iran. We are all suffering because of your stupid President.
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@PlasmaPistolCEO Remind me what happened at the '72 Olympics? Beirut barracks? October 7th?
Shall we reminisce about the myriad Islamic terrorist attacks of the last 60 years?
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Yeah bro if you shot my kid while invading my country id become a terrorist too
Mami Amah 🎀@ItsAmahAdoma
This US soldier just ended three generations of a family. 💔😳
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@SamHersh01 So...you gonna give up your property for it?
Of course not. You'll expect "others" to lose their land.
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Canada is literally the only G7 country without high speed rail.
Conservatives want you to continue to pay sky high prices for gas, worsen congestion on roads and make your commute hours longer.
We've been "studying" high speed rail for 50 years - time to get it built.
Scott Robertson@sarobertsonca
Pierre Poilievre on the Toronto–Quebec City High-Speed Rail Network: "Conservatives oppose the $90b Liberal-Alto train ... a future Conservative government will cancel this $90b boondoggle altogether."
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@LedenUnor @LinkofSunshine So, to rephrase your point; it's the Republican's fault because the Dems came up with a plan that no one read, no R voted for, could not pass Constitutional muster, cancelled existing plans, couldn't work as designed and increased costs?
Those dastardly Republicans again, huh?
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@Faakew2 @LinkofSunshine It did slow the increase. Every legislative attack eroded the plan, the plan they were supposed to improve over time. Insurance used to have a lifetime max payout, and wouldn’t cover or accept those with pre existing conditions. The Rs messed up.
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Ah yes, if we just give TOTAL control to the government, it will all be magically better. Just like the ACA, right? That worked out so well.
Medicaid LOSES money for hospitals, so if you want FULL government control, expect either massive increases in costs or massive hospital closures.
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@Faakew2 @LinkofSunshine yea because they made the critical mistake of allowing the private health insurance industry to continue existing
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@MaverickS0210 @LinkofSunshine And millions lost their old plan.
That aside, total expenditures show an almost doubling, are you telling me that we DOUBLED the people that had insurance?
Show me where costs went down, by ANY measure, which was the promise.
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@Faakew2 @LinkofSunshine 1 millions received healthcare insurance coverage you fucking moron
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Almost double?
No. Quoting individual stats, like "more people got coverage" hides details like many millions LOST their old policies because they no longer qualified. So now they're on an ACA plan, which is often quoted as a "new coverage" success, when they were happy with what they had.
No matter what stat you want to quote, costs have gone up considerably, contrary to the promise. Not to mention the other lies used to sell it.
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@Faakew2 @LinkofSunshine Um, that’s because tens of million more Americans actually received coverage for the first time
I hate an out of context quoter
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The most irritating thing about leftist idiots bitching about attacking Iran is that they always pretend like there's some magical solution to stop them from sponsoring terror attacks around the world.
Gee, if only Trump had tRiEd DiPlOmAcY.
Like this hasn't been going on for decades with no change.
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“We’re going to bring them back to the stone ages where they belong.”
He’s talking about a country of 90 million people. Vile, horrifying, evil.
Acyn@Acyn
Trump: We are going to hit them extremely hard over the next 2 to 3 weeks. We're going to bring them back to the stone ages where they belong.
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@thatstarwarsgrl I don't think it was intended to be a resume summary, dingbat.
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Not a single one of those things are qualifications..
Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives@dom_lucre
🔥🚨BREAKING: Fox News just announced the first woman, first person of color and first Canadian are making history on this trip to the moon.
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The funniest part isn’t a Canadian going to the moon…
It’s Americans thinking they own it.
Frank J. Fleming@IMAO_
Why are we letting a Canadian go to our moon?
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99.9% of people who "experienced" the Challenger disaster saw it on replay and now remember it as live.
Almost NO ONE was watching. Everyone thinks they were. It's a fascinating collective false memory.
Jeremy London@SirJeremyLondon
Anyone who experienced the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, like I did, is probably a bit hesitant to get too excited about the Artemis II launch today. I truly hope our children don’t have to experience such tragedy. May the Universe welcome them and return them safely home 🙏
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@NavyStrang You seriously said that?
Want to do a comparison of NASA failure WITH HUMANS ON BOARD vs SpaceX?
Objectively, it's better if humans don't die in the process of discovery, no?
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One of them is on its way to the moon, the other keeps blowing up. I guess NASA concentrated on the important stuff.
Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt
Difference in quality between NASA and SpaceX’s launch livestreams.
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