Choices tell.
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Literally a side plot in Atlas Shrugged.
whups, forgot to paste the link…
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Wealth from capstone to base; pass that pyramid on!
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Compulsory payments to private entities.
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That’s good to see. I wish they’d listed median as well as average, since that can make a big difference in the U.S. But at least it accounts for one of the things that I have trouble explaining to people. Still need something for the other (probably bigger) chunk.
“Health care isn’t free, someone has to pay for it! We’d have to increase taxes by trillions of dollars to pay for it! All those socialist countries have higher taxes!”
A) “No, we’re already paying for it, that doesn’t change. If we did need any tax increases to pay for it, they’d be less than the insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs that we’re already required to pay since it would all be simplified.”
B) “In fact, if we didn’t have to support all the trillion-dollar insurance companies, networks, administrators, negotiators, collections agencies, pharmaceutical marketing campaigns, and also generate massive profits for the shareholders of each of the middleman companies, we could probably cut the costs at least in half if not more. We could actually reduce taxes for everyone.”
Now I need something to back up answer part B. Currently all I have is the un-cited knowledge that we spend at least double per-capita what any other country does on healthcare. If I had something to show how much went to actual costs of medical care vs. all the wasted money on the commercialization of it, that would give me a strong point for those discussions.
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And, generally speaking, the Dutch are happy with their taxes because they approve of what they go towards.
It’s never the tax rate that’s the real problem.
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Discussed in this vid, some sources in description:
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The difference is that in other countries everyone pays for it.
But in America, the best people, blessed with health, these people don’t have to pay as much because they won’t cost the insurers as much.
It’s those other people, punished with poor health and/or disabilities for their laziness who have to pay more because they cost insurers more, and become a burden on society’s owners’ profits. Unless you can force them to pay more, or to do without, how are you going to get them to get healthy?
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This is America.
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Yeah, all I can think it’s that the people who decided to do this really are fucking clueless (and therefore should not be decision makers, but that’s another discussion).
Any poor kid is going to know better than to complain to their parents they’re only getting jelly sandwiches for lunch.
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Of course, spending five years researching the utter sociopathy of the extremely rich will also leave one to the conclusion that the system is heavily broken.
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One way or another, this belongs here.
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When the answer to all your interview questions is “I like beer”, your ‘employer’ shouldn’t be terribly surprised when you defy your expected role.
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Maybe that’s what I’ve been doing wrong in interviews… Too much math, too little beer.
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That’s a really good point.
The first thing I thought when I read that was how in the Notorious RBG , they had a while section on how RBG had successfully forged a friendship with Scalia. So sure, Kavanaugh got in, but I wonder if Trump realised what Kavanaugh was being let into.
A professional, cordial place where the judges treat each other with respect despite their differences.
To a guy who just got publicly outed as a frat boy asshole, that must have felt amazing. Add on that he’s a selfish shit (he’s a rapist; he’s a selfish shit), and I wouldn’t be surprised by other defections.
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Reminder to self: last time I did a performance review while drinking beers with the boss I got a good raise. Since then, I asked for a review once, but we were in different states and the long distance talk via internet call only got me a minor cost-of-living adjustment. Next time save it for when we’re in the same city and there’s beer.
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