I think there’s about a 0.0% chance that someone will go around random neighborhoods sniffing out packets, then figure out which house those packets belong to, then hack those packets, inject code, all to open a door.

No, metal key technology is not solid.

Yeah, because a regular lock can’t be picked in .3 seconds with a bump key, right?

Lower costs from single-payer healthcare. That’s the difference. But what was described in the comment I responded to, you want a medical system from pre-1950.

So, because you’re too stupid to understand the entire cycle and instead just regurgitate whatever sound bite fits your preconceived notion (at this point, I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that you are the very pinnacle of the Dunning-Kruger Effect), everyone should just believe you?

First of all, not a baby boomer (try two generations younger), I’m tax attorney married to a neurologist. I understand the system better than you will ever understand anything in your life. Now that that’s out of the way let’s get to the substance.

Are you serious? Hospitals are literally some of the best examples of non-profits. I think the problem is you have NO IDEA what non-profit actually means. Here, let me help you:

Average medical settlement is $30,000. It’s not lawyers who make the process expensive. In fact, it’s very difficult to sue for malpractice because the statute is only 2.5 years (in NY, maybe 3 years tops anywhere else). Moreover, you have to prove that what happened was so egregious that no other doctor would have…

Nope. Sorry, that’s incorrect. The absolute most a non-profit can do is have retained earnings, but those earnings must be spent within the entity, i.e., you can’t have distributions.

Well, we do operate a for-profit health system, insofar as we have for-profit HMOs. Let’s get rid of them in favor of a single-payer.

I’m not sure what you think “profit” means, but it most certainly doesn’t mean what you’ve stated. Not one thing you’ve cited is “profit.” It’s “salary” or “compensation.” There are very, very strict laws in regard to compensation at non-profits.

I’m not saying single-payer isn’t better. It is, in literally every conceivable way.

Wife is a doctor, that’s total bullshit. Insurance drives up costs, or lack there of. If someone doesn’t have insurance, by law, the hospital has to treat them. Who eats the loss? The hospital takes some and the rest is passed on to those of us with insurance through higher charges to HMOs.

They dodge taxes? Are you sure you understand what “non-profit” means?

Yes... all those pesky stockholders in non-profit hospitals. Those rascals. Only about 20% of hospitals are for-profit. If you don’t like the for-profit hospital, go to one of other 80% of hospitals that are either government funded or non-profit.

When married to a doctor, I think Norovirus.

Check out SoFi.com. While I didn’t have any student loans, we used them to consolidate my wife’s undergrad and various graduate loans into one payment and significantly lowered the interest rate from the outrageous 6.55% the government was charging (well... Fannie Mae, so quasi-government).

The Founders wrote the document regarding what they thought, but what they thought doesn’t reflect reality. They thought blacks weren’t equal and that was embodied in the Constitution. Should we adopt their viewpoint? Should we say that the Constitution protects rights, but only if you’re white?

I don’t know, despite your name (which I do like, so I want to give you some deference), I’m going to have to disagree.

Oh... so your point is you should be allowed to be wrong? Well... I mean, you’re allowed, but don’t be surprised when people more knowledgeable tell you you’re wrong. It’s the only way you’ll learn.