jmye

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811.
by jmye 3y ago
So you’re just here to tell me, without knowing what I do or who I am, that I’m evil and that I’m “profiting from the denial of care to others”? Cool man, good talk.
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by jmye 3y ago
Did you have something to say, or were you just looking to make some personal swipes and call me names? Your comments about the ACA (you know there’s no accent on the word Act, right?) are hyperbolic nonsense.
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by jmye 3y ago
Interesting - my COBRA opt-ins have always been much higher, but it’s also probably down to location. And yes, totally agree - taking advantage of the 60 day gap can also be super helpful, especially if you’re not high risk.
814.
by jmye 3y ago
That’s absolutely untrue (unless you’ve paid significantly into your deductible, in which case COBRA may be the right way to go). Most HRA plans from your employer are virtually indistinguishable from what you can get on the exchange. While
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by jmye 3y ago
How is acknowledging that BMI may be a faulty measurement for some races “excusing unhealthy behaviors”? In the long run, I suppose I support a significantly less stringent definition of obesity, to enable broader access to GLP-1s, but not
816.
by jmye 3y ago
The same risk factors? Or the same risk? What are you trying to assert? What is your basis for that assertion? Do you think a Caucasian and black person have the same risk of diabetes and hypertension, for instance? Or do you think that ass
817.
by jmye 3y ago
It is. Why do you think it’s not?
818.
by jmye 3y ago
Getting an individual ACA plan is typically easier the less you make. You’ll typically be able to get a bronze plan for whatever you were paying for your share.
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by jmye 3y ago
Stop paying COBRA, unless you have paid significantly into your deductible. You can immediately get an ACA plan on termination for, comparatively, pennies.
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by jmye 3y ago
Do you actually have a counter argument to the fact that a measurement based on one race or sex may not be applicable to all races/sexes? This is common knowledge in health care, so I’m quite interested in hearing your evidence-based
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by jmye 3y ago
So I’m not using it for currency, then? If it’s value can range from $100 to $5, it is unusable as daily currency, and the only reason to hold it is because I’m hoping today is the day it’s $100, and if it’s not, I’m going to use my real
822.
by jmye 3y ago
Seriously? Because if it goes to five when I need to use it for groceries, I’m in a bit of a pickle. That does not happen with the USD/Euro/whatever.
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by jmye 3y ago
Instant downvote, “Professional victim”, “outraged”… yeah, it seem like it’ll be super productive to have a conversation with you. It’s certainly impossible that people hurt by, say, racism might have legitimate concerns about the virulen
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by jmye 3y ago
That’s a load of nonsense that smacks of “I’m really smart and enlightened and everyone else is dumb and incapable of rational thought.” The idea that all of these people are “just harmless trolls” is unsupportable nonsense. It’s wild how m
825.
by jmye 3y ago
These people would clearly still be virulent racists getting excuses made for them by people who desperately don’t want to believe that posting racist memes and hanging out on Stormfront make you a bad person.
826.
by jmye 3y ago
I would imagine some of the backlash comes from giving the data to someone who hates the NHS, and because of things like (FTA) “Those details included political and religious affiliation and past criminal offenses, according to a copy of th
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by jmye 3y ago
You’ve got me curious - who has ever embedded a map in a presentation and why ? It seems absolutely useless to me, but I’d love to learn why it isn’t!
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by jmye 3y ago
Supermarkets aren’t judged on their ability to sell meat that has expired, or stale bread, or other suboptimal products. Public schools are required to educate everyone. This is a bad comparison and another example of why “free market educa
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by jmye 3y ago
Again, what is your expertise in education? Why do you think “equity” is driving disparate outcomes, let alone more disparate outcomes? Do you actually think that any teachers are being taught that their primary job is to create activis
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by jmye 3y ago
What do other countries pay teachers? What benefits are included? What does your district pay teachers? What benefits are included? Is part of what you’re counting as teacher pay something that’s taken care of via other taxes elsewhere (pen
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by jmye 3y ago
Ahh, sorry, I misread your post. Thought you were saying they couldn’t because it was pre-existing. My bad, and your larger point was still correct.
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by jmye 3y ago
You still get asked smoking status on the exchange. It affects subsidy levels. * edit to say, I think it actually asks about tobacco use, not specifically smoking. But the point remains. That said, most people know absolutely nothing about
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by jmye 3y ago
What, specifically, are you counting in “education funding”? At least in my state, the vast majority of a given school’s money comes from a local mill levy, creating significant disparity from neighborhood to neighborhood, in day-to-day dol
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by jmye 3y ago
The assumption that public schools fail to educate kids is already erroneous and baseless. That a public good, meant to ensure an equitable start for all children, regardless of their or their parents’ circumstance, is being treated like a
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by jmye 3y ago
But if I have no idea which school to pick, I’m left with the choice of either my now-failing public school, or a random pick of for-profit schools that may or may not educate my child. You’re giving poor families appalling choices for no n
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by jmye 3y ago
This is nuts. You don’t “easily” fix education by telling over-burdened parents that now they have to both evaluate every school they can find, hope that the voucher covers the education and that the act of providing it doesn’t shut down ev
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by jmye 3y ago
> No, and particularly not my "conspicuous consumption" which is what I said. I mean, it is. There are multitudes in rural Asia and Africa who don’t have a fraction of a fraction of what you have and would regard most of your c
838.
by jmye 3y ago
And you have the same, compared to most of the continent of Africa. It just feels like blame-shifting, in GP’s frame. Most folks on this board have vastly more wealth than I do - that doesn’t make them/you bad people, even if they&#x2F
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by jmye 3y ago
I mean, your consumption is on the scale of people’s whole livelihoods, as soon as you leave a developed country. Are you just addicted to having people grovel? Or is it possible that people with a different baseline and experience have
840.
by jmye 3y ago
What on earth are you talking about? The entire comment was a slap against “capitalism”, with regards to its treatment of workers and how “capitalist” companies act. I picked a specific bit to question GP on while also commenting on the who

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