Ron Benfield

@TheRobertPWills @JimmyTraina 2/6ths burger marketing was needed. Or even 4/12ths.

@JimmyTraina It's why a 1/3 pound burger didn't sell as well as a 1/4 pound burger... folks thought it was smaller.

Why do gas stations still do the 9/10ths thing? Are there really people who don’t think $3.99 and 9/10 isn’t $4. Just make it $4 and cut the shit already.

@JimmyTraina Yeah, that 1/10th mattered when gas was 29.9c. Not so much at 4.799

@LamarMK My insurance actually went down a bit when I went from my Subaru Legacy to a Y.

Why are people saying it's expensive to insure a Tesla? I insure a Cybertruck and a Model Y. Two drivers, full coverage with towing and rental for just over $200 a month. People are always shocked when I tell them that. They expected it to be way more. The insurance cost is one of the biggest myths holding people back from buying a Tesla. How much do you pay to insure yours?

@DutchRojas Hospitals have been forced to employ doctors. Mostly not by choice. Medicare, Medicaid and often commercial pay independents so little that few can survive. A typical hospital employed physician loses $150k to $400k per year. You think hospitals voluntarily choose to lose that?

Yes, blame the poor. It’s their fault. Please explain the $275 billion given to the non profit health systems. And the 2% of gross they give in community benefit. And hospitals haven’t used the price differential to “help” anyone but themselves. They’ve used it for cheap arbitrage to aquire independent practices so they could bill their services at higher rates.

The hospital charged $47,000 for a surgery. Medicare pays $4,200 for the same surgery. The hospital accepted both. Nobody is confused about who’s confused.

Very true. Actual numbers I’ve experienced in multiple hospitals in multiple states (CFO here): Medicare is around 45-60% of patients and pays 75-85% of actual cost. Medicaid can be 10-30% of patients, and pays 50-75% of cost on inpatients and 5-30% of cost on outpatients. Military / VA is 3-5% of patients and pays 70-85% of cost. Commercial is 10-30% of patients and has to pay 180-250% of cost to make the whole thing work. It’s a hidden tax.

@DutchRojas @Ron_Benfield Without commercial insurance, the US healthcare system would be insolvent

@timsoret @NickGibbsIAG Thank you, Tim. You’re always welcome here in America. God bless.

As a European, I apologize to Americans for all the idiocy coming from our side. You save your pilots no matter the cost. You send humans to the moon. You fight authoritarianism head-on. It's truly inspiring. We're on the wrong side of the moral equation.

@goddek It’s a joke.

Why would they write something so obvious like this on pizza boxes in the United States?

@brandenflasch Tesla every time. Model Y might just be the best overall car ever made.

Which would you take home given the option?

@BignaultJon @DutchRojas You’re not wrong. Commercial insurance is a hidden tax.

@Ron_Benfield @DutchRojas The cost is transferred to commercially insured patients who pay $2-3 more for every dollar Medicare and Medicaid shortfall because it is filtered through insurance. It’s a super dumb system. Bankrupting the middle class.

@GenericSubs Not going to name them, huh? Maybe just post the bottom half of their latest 990 to show us this $800m profit you claim.

When a nonprofit hospital sues a patient over a $4,000 bill and no AG objects, “nonprofit” is just a tax strategy.

Data from a state agency shows more than two-thirds of payments to child care providers reviewed were overpayments. ebx.sh/j6WOwf

@Teslarati Summon still has the old Autopilot code. Definitely looking forward to the latest FSD doing the summoning.

It was pouring when I left the gym so I tried to Summon my Model Y It turned the opposite way and drove out of range, stopping here and forcing me to walk even further across the lot in the rain for it 🤣 One day

@FloppingAces @michaeldweiss Fraud in California alone costs taxpayers 100x more.

Worth every f*cking penny. We burned hardware to bring an American home and deny the mullahs a propaganda trophy. A captured U.S. WSO would’ve been paraded on TV, tortured, exploited for intel, and used for humiliation theater. Instead, our guys flew into hell, got him out, and came home with zero U.S. fatalities. That’s what a country does for its own. Meanwhile blue states blow fortunes on fraud rackets and call it compassion. I’ll take $300 million to save an American warfighter over one more dime for parasites and scammers. Absolute heroes.

Details about the rescue op for the U.S. Weapon Systems Officer, via a U.S. military official: "The mountain top area on the left is where the WSO was hiding (he ejected 5ish miles northwest of there). The right area is the makeshift landing strip where they landed 2 C-130s and had 4 MH-6 Little Birds. "One Little Bird flew to that mountain top area and rescued the WSO and brought him back to the landing strip. And of course the two C-130s' nose gears got stuck in the dirt. So after a few hours they had to bring in three AFSOC Dash-8s to fly out the rescued WSO and the 100 or so personnel involved in the op." 1/2

@PlanetOfMemes Lemonade already gives a 50% discount for FSD use. Others will follow eventually. Insurance savings could make FSD a necessity.

A Tesla vehicle avoided a crash with clouds of smoke and dust which blocking visibility. How long until insurance companies give discounts for drivers with FSD?

@jasonrantz Article won’t load. Which 4 counties?

#BreakingNews: Four Eastern Washington sheriffs sue to block Ferguson’s unelected sheriff removal board seattlered.com/legal/eastern-…

@GenericSubs @DutchRojas And the name of this non profit is?

@DutchRojas the local "non pforit" hospital has $800 million in profit. thats just one small town 300 bed hospital with a couple satellites in even smaller towns, total maybe 450 beds

@KuhlGtown @LamarMK Not a chance. But you remind me in two years.

@Ron_Benfield @LamarMK It'll be $20 per month in about 2 years....

How much does it cost to own a self driving car? Back in the day you'd think a true self driving car would cost you a million dollars. Today you can get a brand new Tesla in the mid 30s and a $99 a month FSD subscription basically gives you your own personal chauffeur. The future really is here and it's more affordable than most people think. Would you subscribe to FSD for $99 a month?