That’s she’s a brave beautiful woman who doesn’t need to listen to those hater WOC from poor Pacific island countries. The other women need to stop being bad transphobes and just accept they'll never win again because Ms Hubbard works so much harder than they ever could. Which is the only reason she could beat them.…

So no female competitors will get even close to a medal ever again. I suppose it’s a “solution”. But I’m still not sure what the problem is that requires reversing decades of progres in encouraging female participation in elite level sports.

This “Europe in ruins” shibboleth can apparently be used to explain away anything Europe has as not possible here. Even though it’s not true.

If it wasn’t for the TVA much of the rural south where these people live would have continued to be practically third world “shitholes” for decades longer than they did. Though I wonder what would have happened if the TVA operated using a similar state/federal model as Medicaid? Maybe Alabama would have refused to…

Good point. People tend to get painful and invasive health care procedures for funsies if they don’t have a co-pay or deductible. Because health care is exactly like any consumer good. Absolutely no difference whatsoever.

Due to both racial and income related health disparities, people in traditionally republican voter demographics tend to live longer than traditionally Democratic voter demographics. I remember seeing or hearing someone claim income and racial health disparities might be the reason why the hoary old trope of “people…

Because as Tracy says, if we can place blame and fault then we can continue believing it won’t happen to us because we would never be as bad as those who were to blame and at fault. It’s basically a psychological protection mechanism.

What does it even mean to “earn” money when that money comes from giving money you already had to someone who through luck and maybe hard work (not that it matters apparently) makes even more money, then owes you a portion of the money they made? Lottery winners “earn” money basically the same way. By choosing the…

The mendacity which seems to be required in order to be a “conservative” is truly mind blowing. Even by the most twisted illogical definition of the phrase, how can the government deciding how much they’ll buy something for be considered a “price control”? The government wouldn’t be telling companies how much they can…

The ability of the truly wealthy to “move or hide their assets around to minimize their exposure” isn’t some immutable property of their assets. As you kind of allude to, it’s a function of purposeful choices our society, and most of the rest of the developed world, has made over the last few decades under the…

So I’m clear about your position, your argument is political/institutional and not operational, right? You aren’t arguing that in a world where any plan could pass congress/be signed on the president’s desk, a multi-payer system is better at lowering health care costs and insuring the most people than a single payer…

Just the first 3 minutes of that race was insane. There were soooo many utes on the grid it looked like there was no way they could all race around the circuit without taking each other out. And that’s exactly what happened. By 2:05 someone gets pushed on to the shoulder during an easy corner just from the sheer…

The “you can’t balance bill patients you see through our program” will be part of the single payer’s “offer”. Or maybe they’ll allow some amount of balance billing? The point is the single payer can enforce whatever stipulations they want for providers who see patients the single payer is paying for. Again, under M4A…

I’m sure I don’t get what it takes to teach students doing rotations, but why do people need to pay the same cost for the last 2 years of med school as the first 2 years when only the first 2 years are actually like classroom school stuff?

It’s weird. Do they actually not understand the time lines are for phasing in once the law has been passed? Or is it a purposeful attempt to muddy the waters and make things look too “impossible” to even be worth trying?

That’s a silly misstatement of the interconnected price problem caused by having a multi-payer private insurance system and many providers.

LOL. If they actually hear the thruth, that “losing” private insurance doesn’t mean losing their preferred provider, a majority support Medicare For All.

But your original point was “bad” because it didn’t consider the problems with alternatives to M4A. Thus, saying “M4A or nothing” might not be “reductive nonsense”. Instead it might be an accurate summation of how to achieve the goals you identify when one considers all the relevant factors like political viability,…

The difference is immaterial to an owner. Neither can pay out excess revenue to shareholders. And you get that providers and insurance companies have people who receive returns as owners that don’t work there, right? You understand what capitalism is? Like, I don’t have to go down to the Pfizer hq and do my…

Which is why I would say such a policy would need to include provisions that insurance companies, as well as healthcare providers, cannot be run as for-profit entities, must limit out-of-pocket cost increases to (X amount) per (X timeframe), etc. There’s already precedent for these types of control in the ACA