Medicare and Medicaid are just as responsible for health care waste as anyone else. Their reimbursement structures - particularly Medicare - encourage procedures, specialist care, and (until recently) inpatient admissions. Private insurers tend to use fee structures similar (though not identical) to Medicare because…

Except Medicare for All wouldn’t be setting a “fair price”. It would be setting an arbitrary reimbursement figure influenced by factors (provider cost reports, budgetary caps, lobbying, more lobbying) that have little do with with the meeting point between a seller and buyer. We’d have the same problem as we do now -…

Many companies would probably like to rid themselves of paying healthcare benefits. Problem is that most Americans who have private employer-sponsored health insurance like it and would prefer to keep it. I can’t entirely blame them, given how they get very generous benefits while Federal tax incentives shield them…

Correct. Medicare pays most hospitals 85-95% of cost depending on the facility. Ditto for many common physician services. Procedures and hospital outpatient ancillary payments are where the $$$$ for providers. And anyone who thinks CMS payment policies can’t be influenced is kidding themselves.

Exactly. I work in healthcare. Private managed care companies’ margins are the least of our worries when it comes to health care cost inflation. Each player in the health care system has powerful incentives that encourage anti-competitive behavior and/or disrupt the buyer-seller relationship that is critical to…

“Ultimately this is about labor, which deserves everything that it creates.”

This is the answer. If he wants something truly weird/hipsterized/Jalop, then his requirements ($70k, legal to drive on US roads, <5 years old, modern infotainment) narrow things down really fast.

The established manufacturers are dependent on dealers for their service network. Suddenly them out of new-car sales would cause an enormous headache.

I actually love it. It’s stunning in a weird sci-fi kinda way. It’s like one of those bizarre alien weapons people can’t stop staring at, right up until the point where it vaporizes half the film’s characters (or in this case kills a few drivers with more money than talent).

My guess? This will be in production less than 4 years. Maybe 2-3. It’s an end-of-line run-out, keeping the mid-engine V8 fresh while the new hybrid platform is developed. Better than keeping the 488 going for too long.

IMHO the 458 is among the best modern car designs period. It looked like it came from 10 years in the future when it was released, yet it has aged so well. To me that’s the mark of a great design - pushes the boundaries in the present, yet stays timeless once it’s moment has passed.

Sorry - “fun to drive”, “good mileage”, and “Nissan” are mutually exclusive, at least here in the US.

Some of this might be used R8s being just affordable enough to tempt lots of well-off but not loaded car guys into financially regrettable decisions we won’t actually regret. It’s almost (but not quite) a mid-engine exotic for the people. I could tell you I’ve never browsed used manual V8s before and thought “maybe in…

LMAO, I’d imagine your list of trustworthy sources discards anything right of Bernie Sanders.

Canada and most European countries are highly capitalistic. Some even more so than the USA:

Chinese gov’t might try it.

Agreed, the site has a major bias against American manufacturers not named Tesla. If GM makes bad business decisions or does something shady, then by all means call them out. But don’t apply double standards. It’s amateur-hour journalism.

Agreed. Love how supercar manufacturers are getting more creative with the color palette. It sucks Volcano Red is special-order only now, though. 

Great read. Supercars are what got me into cars in the first place. McLaren F1, Ferrari F50, Lamborghini Diablo, the first-gen Viper, 993 Turbo, all those model cars and hours playing Need for Speed and later Gran Turismo, seeing them all for the first time during a family trip to SoCal.

Yes. Hoping they will finally run out of capital and go bankrupt.