I agree, Liz was doing well til she moved toward the center and her numbers went down. I think if she would have stayed left she would be winning this. 

This exactly. I love Warren. Was hoping she would run back in 2016. The caving in on health care was bad. The “leak” to CNN about Bernie’s supposed comments just before a debate also hosted by CNN was a sign of a larger character/judgement issues. It was desperate.

THANK YOU.

Warren’s big mistake was all about healthcare.

IDK I thought the “sweeping reform candidate with ACTUAL FUCKING STEP-BY-STEP PLANS” was a pretty great niche but what do I know

Well, she’s paid for her missteps more than anyone else, hell she even paid for Sander’s mistep (a woman can’t win.) The media HAS taken its focus off of her no doubt, she’s not getting positive coverage at all. Hell, this is a “supposedly” feminist site, and the loudest political blogger here, has been writing…

More like the loose change they found down the back of the sofa and in the car ashtray.

You are completely correct, and yet that fact is a deeper condemnation of many things that are true today that aren’t related to Disney - once we’re at the point of saying ‘Disney should have paid for that child’s treatment’ we as a civilization have already failed.

BBC reports that Nair had tried to crowdfund Waligwa’s medical treatment in India, after Ugandan doctors said they lacked the equipment necessary to eradicate her brain tumor.

I just let out a sigh so deep and guttural the ancestors heard it.

Eh, the way you phrase it, thousands of these Veblenesque boutiques are going to pop up overnight and poach all of our doctors. I don’t think the sky is falling quite yet.

Yeah true, but I think that should be mostly on Nickelodeon as they choose what airs on their network.

Yeah but Nickelodeon? That seems..... dumb from a business standpoint and hard to defend. 

So I work in medical and I just want to say this article kind of misses a lot of the reason many of us do. Additionally, and this may be crazy to you, doctors are people too, we have wants and needs, and many of us do stupid things like work at a teaching institution for 30% less pay than if we were in a exclusive…

You summed up exactly how I feel.

This reminds me of the reason we need someone besides patients to analyze the efficacy of care - because patients suck at it. They can’t tell you how effective their treatments were relative to the alternatives, or if extra costs paid off, or any number of other things, but they by God are impressed with smiling…

This article reads very much like Star Trek: Voyager, Season 7, Episode 5: Critical Care.

...allowing those with disposable income to purchase the promise of wellness.

Where? In Canada it def is not. My employer insurance covers things that are not covered by OHIP (provincial insurance plan). Things like dental, vision, hearing. It also gets me private/semi-private hospital rooms and cheaper drugs. What it doesn’t do is let me skip any line, anywhere. The richest and poorest person…

I’m perfectly fine with tiered care. Like you said, it’s a reality of the world we live in. What pisses me off, though, is that the lowest tier in America is “go die in the gutter”, and the few tiers above that consist of “here’s a prescription, now go die in the gutter a little more slowly”.