And no one but completely healthy people would have insurance. But look, low prices!

Insurance companies don’t get paid by increases in fee for service from the hospital. Their goal is to decrease how much they pay the hospital. Or anyone for that matter. Then they charge YOU more for your policy. Charge you more, pay out less. That’s insurance.

You have cause and effect sometime flipped.

Exactly. Federal grants pay for the R&D. Drug companies are no benevolent beings.

It’s actually a 40% decrease in cost (17ish to 11).

The vast majority of R&D in healthcare is funded by federal grants. Nearly all of it. Don’t let them play you with that card.

So, so dumb.

Which is amazing, considering the Dodgers have lost 21 in a row or something.

The record is 21. You cannot count a streak with a tie in it as a winning streak.

The name is not racist. The mascot is.

Recommended: punctuation.

Is you for real?

They ARE bulldozing blocks

That wasn’t your point.

I believe you are facetiously mocking deadspin and/or the author, but I have zero doubt that Burneko would defend Lance Armstrong as the record-holder.

Or society. Because chronic steroid use leads to early death. But everyone forgets to mention that.

Wait - we do?

Because we can be right, while they are wrong.

Yeah, I’m usually in line with a lot of the takes on this site (hence, why I’m here). But the pro-steroid boner around here is a bit hard to swallow.* You can’t pretend the numbers aren’t massively artificially enlarged.*

I hit 80 home runs in my whiffle ball league. I’m the home run king.