Is English not your first language, or did you just have a stroke?

Peugeot has actually done pretty well in reliability ratings the past few years. This is one of those bits of “common knowledge” that mostly comes from Americans not actually having much experience with them. Their city cars wouldn’t be so popular here in Europe if they were rolling trash heaps.

You get into the same branch as the person who invites you, so you’d never play against him unless you could track down someone in the same branch or league. There are a few other famous people in LL though - Ken Jennings, Alexandra Petri (though she’s not active anymore), and probably more.

Yawn.

I’m American, just living in Belgium - I know what US insurance is like as well. The point is not that insurance companies are good, it’s that setting out to destroy them will provoke an even more hysterical opposition campaign than the ACA did. There are many highly functional systems that simply establish a much…

So, are these reliable now?

It’s not accurate though. Most European systems have private insurance which competes with a public option (I live in one such system), and the outcomes are comparable to single payer systems (which are comparatively much rarer).

You are not going to be able in the long run to have cost effective universal health care unless you change the system, unless you get rid of the insurance companies

I know some DSA folks who are really spending a lot more time posting guillotine memes and calling for a revolution.

My wife went to an ER in the US for a severe migraine, and the bill was $2k for an IV of pain meds and about 5 minutes of doctor interaction, and we had a pretty good insurance plan.

Belgian resident here - I never have experienced a long wait time for a doctor, nor has my wife. Haven’t heard any of my friends report any excessive wait times either.

MTA being run badly sure as hell isn’t an argument against subways. Plenty of subway systems around the globe are run quite well.

Otherwise, the Chrysler 200—may the car gods rest its soul—was actually a decent car.

Modern Peugeots are actually relatively reliable - I’d wager significantly more so than a Jeep.

The Alpine is great (and I haven’t even seen one in Europe yet, fwiw), but the rest of the Renault stable is worse than the PSA counterparts. PSA interiors are much better built too.

France has made a lot of innovate, interesting, and even reliable cars. Americans watching TG and then uncritically swallowing their biases about cars and companies they have no actual familiarity with is getting pretty tired.

She doesn’t get more grief than HamNo, for instance. I dislike her not for being a woman, but for having uninformed and half-baked attack pieces on everyone who isn’t Bernie. She’s lived in the US about as long as I’ve lived in Belgium, yet I don’t feel qualified to be a Belgian political journalist.

Do you morons not look at polls showing the majority of Americans support some form of guaranteed national healthcare?

Relatively “radical” ideas like M4A, tax hikes for wealthy people, and tuition free college are quickly becoming consensus issues among Democratic voters

That’s essentially what Germany has, and they have no issue with uninsured people, have cheaper health care and better results.