Isn’t that single-payer?

No.

I don’t know about this analogy. To me, it feels like we’re spending 4 years with a fucking racist, bigoted, half-an-idiot who only cares about himself and the daughter he’d give anything to fuck, and his sycophantic administration made up of similarly bigoted shitfucks who have not a full brain between them, only a…

what would it cost your retirement portfolio if every healthcare stock immediately went to 0 and stayed there indefinitely

The car insurance industry operates more or less sanely, though. And I have no problem with the government mandating that owners of a potentially quite dangerous, non-mandatory commercial product be enrolled in insurance so people aren’t utterly ruined when accidents inevitably happen.

There are a lot of good arguments for Medicare for All—like that no one should suffer or even die because they can’t afford healthcare, for example—and the fact that Wall Street is so deathly afraid of it is yet another. The fact that they are starting to get nervous is good news.

Well, and the part that I find so toxic (I shudder to use this word, but it seems apt) about the attitude is how it displays this obsession with Davidson—and presumably this is supposed to hold for the average dude—demonstrating worthiness for female attention entirely through material means. And then we turn around…

There are any number of gratifying, if unsurprising, tidbits coming out of Robert Mueller’s massive report already. One I’d rank close to the top of the pile so far: Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders admitting to Mueller’s investigators what we’ve always known—that she just gets up there and lies and lies and…

Twenty years ago (or more) I suggested we all stop buying insurance. ANY insurance - a full on boycott of car, home, health, life whatever - until they cleaned up their act and did their jobs.

Maybe we can get tattoos that scream No out-of-network providers are allowed to touch me.

it does make sense, though, considering that capitalism is an accumulationeconomy. Expand or go out of business. short term profits at the expense of everything else.

This is an insanely apt description of the current situation. I cannot fathom that Americans polled are just, like, “Yep - I think the system is totally cool”. The delusion is confounding.

People have Stockholm syndrome for their health insurance plans because it is their lifeline. They are hanging of a cliff holding on to a vine and rather than imagining being somewhere other than the cliff all they can focus on is not losing the vine.

Isn’t it obvious? A person with an unusable insurance plan is - on paper - an insured person, which makes the grim statistics on uninsured individuals look more palatable.

No, it isn’t. But I’m not really surprised that this is treated as praiseworthy in work-obsesssd American culture. This guy seems cool and good, but he really should have listened to his subscribers when they told him to take breaks. If the dude had collapsed and died during one of those marathon streams, this piece…

It’s an interesting story, for sure, but I’m not convinced that this guy’s “achievement” is something to be lauded. He should have actually listened to the subscribers in his chat telling him to take breaks, rather than just being touched by their concern for him. He no doubt faced health problems with greater…

Yeah. It seemed like, the more in thrall to establishment or “machine”-style politics you were, the more you were taken in by Hamilton during the height of its popularity. The inside-baseball nature of its success on the stage was a perfect echo of the political values of its fans.

How is it a “lifehack” to take something this simple and turn it into such a huge deal?

I guess if you have a wimpy engine that doesn’t like to be wrung out, it could be annoying to listen to it struggle, but how is a traditional automatic any better in that case?

Cant take jalopnik serious anymore when it comes to CVTs. Get over it, they arent going away and they arent that bad in fact I think they are great and Subaru has the best CVTs in the business.