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Americans fly to Turkey for $3,000 dental implants that cost $40,000 in Manhattan. They drive to Tijuana for $800 MRIs priced at $12,000 in San Diego (literally 15 minutes north). Medical tourism revenue hit $100 billion globally in 2023 while US healthcare spending broke $4.5 trillion.
The market speaks louder than any policy wonk ever could. When you can get the same cardiac surgery in Bangkok for $15,000 that costs $200,000 in Boston—using the same equipment, often better facilities, and surgeons trained at Johns Hopkins—the pricing isn't reflecting scarcity or quality. It's reflecting capture.
Insurance companies created this beautiful racket where they negotiate "discounts" off artificially inflated prices, hospitals play along because the government backstops the whole charade through Medicare reimbursements, and pharmaceutical companies... well, they just price whatever the market will bear (which turns out to be everything you own plus your firstborn).
Austrian school economists predicted this decades ago. When you remove price signals and direct payment, costs explode. When Americans rediscover actual market prices by flying to Mumbai for heart surgery, suddenly they remember what healthcare actually costs when providers compete for cash-paying customers instead of...
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It’s an honest to God shame that people just blindly see this and accept it as reality. Then go to battle with it as their weapon of truth.
At least question why you’re told it’s an oblate spheroid (wider at the equator than north and south) and yet it’s shown as a circle.
Buzz Patterson@BuzzPatterson
It’s round, gang.
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@elonmusk If Elon responds to this we’ll wrap a tesla with Pengu and use it for a company vehicle like the hotdog car
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@LearnToToad @grok is this guy retarded? Suns coming from the left...
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Someone want to tell me how the Sun, which is the light source, is behind the Earth here, yet the visible side of the Earth is lit up like it's fucking day time? Is it all fake and gay?
Latest in space@latestinspace
🚨: NASA just dropped a full disk image of Earth taken by Artemis II 🤯
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Middle America is full of old homes no one really wants
Yet we desperately need more processing power for AI
That's why I'm buying up crappy old homes and turning them into micro data centers
Bought this one for $125k, now it's worth $1.8 million as a productive data center
Plus, it creates an additional 2 jobs for the neighborhood
We should be doing this all over the country

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Stop saying vaginas get “loose” from sex. The vagina is a muscle that naturally expands and then returns to its usual state; sex doesn’t permanently change its shape. It’s not a weak piece of skin that gets “stretched out” by a penis. And when a guy brags about how “tight” that girl/woman was, he’s really admitting she wasn’t fully aroused because proper arousal actually relaxes those muscles.
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I posted too much about Breedlove. Now the algorithm thinks I’m gay so will be reposting some honkermog thirst traps until it stops.
You’re welcome and yes I’ll be taking requests.
baddies life@baddieslifbo
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I noticed how most of my 30-40yo neighbors don’t come outside. Someone else scoops their dogs poop, pressure washes their house, cut their grass, and brings their groceries. They’re never outside. Then I know 60-80yos who are always outside working on something or their blue collar business.
Jake | Houses Into Homes@J_Koenig21
My neighbor this morning. 95 years old, and still doing his own yard work.
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Why are politicians always focused on implementing new taxes or raising taxes instead of balancing the budget?
Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders
Ok, Jamie: Let me clear things up for you. If my 5% wealth tax on billionaires was enacted you’d owe $135 million more in taxes & a family of 4 making $150,000 or less would receive a $12,000 payment. Oh, and you’d still be worth more than $2.5 billion. Seems pretty fair to me.
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@TheDanMan007Fan @BitcoinRachy How this guy gonna survive off less than 1m
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@BitcoinRachy Probably 7 if you don’t have a head start
Much less than that right now if you’re deep in the mix and old like me
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@RealDianeYap Lmao for daycare thats over 70k a year in Cali so she wouod have to make 140k just to pay for that and have a little left over. If she's pulling 200k+ then maybe it might be worth it?
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Why does she have to go back to work tomorrow?
Because her baby daddy is a loser. If he weren't a loser, she wouldn't have to work if she doesn't want to. She says that she would love to stay on leave longer or do part time "but that's just not our financial situation."
Please, women -- do yourselves a favor. Do not procreate with losers who cannot afford to carry the household (you plus kids) on his income alone. Work if you want, but do not have kids with someone who can't afford them.
Good Morning America@GMA
This mom's emotional post holding her twins on her last day of maternity leave highlights the pressures on American moms. abcnews.link/RvTRIfI
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