Maybe hospitals need to stop being focused on making profits and return to being non-profit businesses that help people get better, instead.

This is untrue. It really depends on where you live just like here. Are you in a busy, heavily populated city ? You might have to wait. Difference is that in the US if you don’t have insurance you will never be seen or end up in an emergency room where the costs get passed on to everyone else. For the most part…

I’m worried my husband has sleep apnea, a potentially serious condition. Earliest appointment ? 3-4 months away. This talking point is bogus. Besides, if we didn’t have insurance wait time would be....never. And why is Canada always cited ? Never Scandinavia, France or Germany. And why do we need to model our system…

I waited 14 months to see a doctor here in the good old USA. Back in April, I scheduled an appt. with a new primary care provider. When is the appointment? January 2020. We’ve already got the long wait times--it’s just that we pay out the ass for it, while Canadians don’t.

fuck

John Delaney is a republican plant. Convince me otherwise.

Yeah that is super weird! My second choice certainly isn't Biden lololol God he makes me want to bawl. Elizabeth Warren is my second favorite but honestly she's so close with Bernie for me that they're probably tied if I'm being honest. 

Where did you see that he is “losing his shine”? He seems to be polling at #2 in almost every poll that I see...

As an immigration person, I’ve even been told I’m downplaying something awful at the border when I point out that, no, a private prison company is NOT being paid $770/day to lock kids in cages (CBP is the one running the cages, not private prisons, and the costs is definitely way lower, that cost was specific to the…

Thanks for your reporting. I used to admire Mayer and am mystified as to why she chose to die on this hackish hill.

SAME. I really cannot understand the vitriol - it’s like he’s Mitch McConnell or something. People are a fucking trip.

Same here! I’m amazed / baffled by the hate he gets on here. You would think more would support him, considering he is the only progressive candidate. ::Shrugs::

Yeah...I know many people here are predisposed to hate on Bernie. But I love the guy and will support him until the end.

“ I’m not seeing Hanks disappear into the role so much as Hanks playing it.” Yes. I still gently sobbed at my desk, though. 

I live near berkeley and read berkeleyside daily. The commentariat there are mostly either the handful of conservatives who live in the city or, more numerously, the many conservatives from outside berkeley who get there when breitbart or fox reposts something. I think for conservatives, “berkeley city council”…

I find the Greek System one funny. Wouldn’t it just be easier to say “Alpha Theta House” or whatever the name of the particular Greek branch is? Otherwise, I don’t see what the objections to this are. It costs nothing, and requires minimal effort (with the exception of that Greek mouthful). This is as mundane as a…

I’m only 30 and I have no idea what an “e-girl” is. Nothing makes you feel old like having to look up something on Urban Dictionary

To be fair, approachable and friendly are not necessary attributes for that which we need in the future. And though I do not think that Sanders is in the right for running, I will always be grateful to him for normalizing the single-payer health insurance concept in the US. Were it not for Sanders, I don’t believe…

Yep, this.

NOT TRUE, and you need to understand this, and tell this to every person you know. It’s not a small reduction for insurance - often the insurance rate is WAY lower than “rack rate”, and you can pay that rate without insurance at some places.