Again, homes should be built to withstand how people use them. People drained pasta 35 years ago, too, and plumbing not being able to withstand boiling water is just plain stupid.

The terrible thing is that modern plumbing doesn’t support the actual ways that people use their sinks. If you make pasta, you’re going to pour boiling water down the sink no matter how grumpy plumbers are about it. Pipes should be ok with that.

When infotainment impacts quality or reliability, I’m out. They need more nuanced ratings. Give me powertrain reliability and some ease of use rating. This current system is bunk.

There’s a few things wrong with that statement IMO (though I generally don’t disagree with killing the Scirocco in the state it was in currently), but I’m going to go with the thing that I really want to have a conversation about with anyone that will have one with me.

Why, do we see the need to have new platforms on…

Well FUCK future me! He’s all sober, not hung over on Saturday and full of himself. I just got back from the grocery store, slightly sweaty and just talked to useless frickin’ losers about the sports game from yesterday and the weather. That lazy fuck can get off his ass and brown some beef. Here’s an article....…

Can Mr. Obama “drop in” to the White House again and just stay? 

True true. But they can pry my hot tub from my overly heated pruney hands. I’m just not letting anyone else get in because they’ll mess up the perfect water chemistry.

I think everyone should absolutely upfront ask for this information if they want it. Because it will tell their date that they’re batshit insane. And if the date answers enthusiastically it means they’re equally insane and the chart might not be needed because they’re super compatible.

Not to mention the fact that we have wait times here in the US. I get health care from my university and my wait times to see certain specialists is crazy. Last year, the wait to see a dermatologists about a possible melanoma was four months. To get my foot checked for a stress fracture, almost five months. My sister…

It’s not the doctors, or even hospitals, so much as the PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES who loathe the idea of ‘single payer’.

I’m kind of surprised the US did so well. I would have bet 50's or above in efficiency.

This, plus allowing insurers to sell across state lines

Lots of countries have universal healthcare much better than the U.S. But not all of them have “single payer”. That term seems to have morphed in the political discourse to mean “universal healthcare” that is the unicorn all American progressives want (including myself) but it’s not the same thing.

But muh battle tanks!

They have no idea how hard it is to manage stocks and investments. I mean, they deserve to be treated better.

It’s not that we don’t care about poor people. It’s just that we care about the financial well-being of rich people even more.

Dear God they will NEVER get over this “wait times” excuse, which has been debunked as you put it. My goodness. Just for the fuck of it though, you know how you reduce wait times? Encourage more people to be doctors. How do you do that? Make med school more affordable. This entire system is a total scandal and it…

Single-payer is the post office, premium private plans are FedEx. Pay for what you want, knowing that there’s a minimum that everyone can use.

Perhaps people with the “ultra luxe” PPO plans Khazan describes might feel short-changed. The question is whether we think that’s an acceptable risk if the upside is expanding access to medical care, both preventative and urgent, to tens of millions of people.

Look, single payer is simply too difficult. So difficult, in fact, that only 58 countries have it, and nearly every industrialized country does.