Dan Moore

LASIK eye surgery cost $2,200 per eye in 2000. Today it's around $1,000 per eye despite 24 years of inflation. Meanwhile, an MRI that cost $1,200 in 2000 now costs $3,000+. The difference? LASIK operates in a free market with no insurance interference and minimal regulation. When patients pay directly, providers must compete on price and quality. LASIK clinics advertise prices, offer financing, and constantly improve technology to attract customers. Compare this to hospital procedures where prices are hidden, patients never see bills, and insurance companies negotiate opaque rates that somehow always increase faster than inflation. Cosmetic surgery follows the same pattern. Breast augmentation, rhinoplasty, and other elective procedures have become more affordable and safer over decades. Surgeons invest in better techniques and equipment because they must satisfy paying customers, not insurance bureaucrats or hospital administrators focused on maximizing reimbursements. The lesson is clear: remove third-party payment systems and excessive regulation, and you get Austrian economics in action. Prices fall, quality rises, and innovation accelerates. Healthcare costs aren't rising because of aging populations or new technology—they're rising because we've destroyed the price mechanism that makes markets work.

Let's go in OT!!

@Jared_Carrabis what if this IKF move is to make Mayer available for a Marte trade? Worth it?

@redsoxpayroll What if this is to make Mayer available in a trade for Marte?

Actively dislike this. Like, a lot. CBT projection up to ~$266.8M, ~$2.8M below the 2nd CBT threshold. They gave up David Sandlin to get Chicago to eat $16M of Hicks ($8M in 2026) to spend $6M on IKF. Yikes. Is there another shoe to drop?

Huge congrats to 6’1” 2027 PG @kadenmoore1002 on passing the 1000 career point mark with this athletic slashing finish. Kaden will be running the show for our newly formed 2027 squad featuring some of the top athletes in ND! #BeElite #CaD

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@MattH_4America I live in NE North Dakota, and we hit -40 or lower almost annually, without windchill. -2 we are contemplating a jacket or not.

What's the coldest temperature you have ever experienced? (not the wind chill) For me, -2

@LouMerloni Offer 4/$120M +5th year mutual $25M option w/$5M buyout...Id rather spend than give up Early/Tolle to get Marte and move MM to 3rd. It's only $$ and not talent out the door that way.

I mentioned what I think his market is and saw the reaction so I'm going to ask the question....Do you want Alex Bregman back at 5/$150

@CurtisHong32 If its who I think it is, idk about good looking🤣

Who’s the good looking guy in the green with the white hat?

HOLY SHIT!!

Well, better than expected in year one. Hopefully learned what it takes to win. Next year there will be expectations!! #UNDfootball

@Todd_Burianek Absolutely do not look like an FCS caliber offense at all right now. Asking a lot of the defense to carry them. 13 points is fine, but we haven't shown we can move the ball at all.

@getsomemoore3 The ultimate chicken and egg question I guess what was that? And the so-called moving company has gone on strike

Somebody get a real OC on the line for next year!! #FireFruechte

@Todd_Burianek Yeah, his play has definitely dropped off, but the lack of creativity definitely hasn't helped.

@getsomemoore3 And in every one of those weeks, the quarterback threw interception or over through a wide open receiver

@Todd_Burianek The offense has looked awful for 5 weeks now. Way to predictable!!

@getsomemoore3 Not his fault that the quarterback keeps throwing the ball to the damn wrong team

EXPOSED 🚨 A NGO headquartered in Minnesota is getting paid $2,375 for every Somalia immigrant they bring into the United States “Why are Somalians in America? I looked into it — The main group bringing in Somalians is Lutheran Social Services — it turns out they get $2,375 for every Somalian they bring over” “We have to ask the question, why are they coming over here in the first place? And another surprise, turns out our government was funding a dictatorship in Somalia — This is where the movie Black Hawk Down comes from. But overall Somalis have no right to be in America, especially North Dakota and Minnesota. They don't integrate into our societies. They carry over their clan mentalities. If you personally have never interacted with Somalian or just don't believe me, I would recommend checking out Nick Shirley's video he did the other day. What do you guys think about all this” - The money is a one-time Reception and Placement grant of $2,425 per refugee (updated from $2,375 in recent years), paid by the State Department to cover immediate arrival costs (e.g., airfare reimbursement, first-month rent, furniture, airport pickup) (This money is not supposed to be profit for the NGO but you already know with the NGO fraud in Minnesota that most of this money is definitely getting pocketed) - In Minnesota, federal funds totaled ~$4M for 10,000 refugees in 2018 - Lutheran Social Services is ONE OF 10 national Voluntary Agencies contracted by the U.S. State Department to handle logistics for refugees

@brim006 I hope I'm not showing up in Canada, cuz I'm not allowed to be up there🤣🤣

RIP to everyone’s Twitter accounts in Crosby, Bottineau and Wallhalla that falsely shows they’re Canadian.

@ShadowofEzra You said allowing when I think you meant orchestrating.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney has been reported dead due to complications from pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease. Cheney is seen by many as one of the worst human beings to ever walk this Earth, responsible for the deaths of countless children worldwide and for allowing a terrorist attack on U.S. soil.

This is HS coaching to a "T". Admins and board members that know nothing about athletics or leading young men making these decisions.

@BrightSideSox @ggeiss_mlb He has signed his walking papers. Unfortunately his value has dropped immensely along the way.

@ggeiss_mlb Team Anthony/Rafaela/Abreu

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