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by kcplate 2y ago
Yes I am sure a government imposing its will against the desires of its people could be more effective at prevention.
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by kcplate 2y ago
> From zero to 25usd/month is a huge difference I know how much my EU colleagues make in income and how much they pay in taxes to save that huge difference of $0 to $25 . I’d much rather have my salary, insurance bill, and $25 Rx c
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by kcplate 2y ago
Yes, sometimes it takes a long time—which is still much better than authoritarian approaches.
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by kcplate 2y ago
I know that is the talking point, but that is not my lived experience. I have been on 5 regular meds for chronic conditions and I currently pay less than $25/mo with my insurance plan. Twelve years ago I did a 18 month stint doing fr
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by kcplate 2y ago
How about before we stoop to legal bans we try education solutions first. I’d rather politicians not start worrying about their “pet” sins du jour.
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by kcplate 2y ago
My pharmacy is at a grocery store. They deeply discount certain common generic meds because they want you to shop there for groceries. It’s less about negotiating a copay, but rather letting market forces work to people’s advantages
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by kcplate 2y ago
Did He insist on it, or did He allow it to happen? Also, did He ask everyone to give up their identity and live a life of poverty?
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by kcplate 2y ago
> Does this story feel legit to you? No more or less than any story from that time period. What is in the Bible is literal, historical, metaphorical, philosophical…etc. So could it be true? Sure. Could it be an illustrative fiction?
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by kcplate 2y ago
Not necessarily but like much interpretations differ. An old retired pastor friend once described the story of Mary anointing Christ with the expensive oil and being chastised by Judas as a “waste” with Jesus correcting Judas (John 12). H
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by kcplate 2y ago
I actually think it makes the thing look better. Embrace the ugly and maximize it.
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by kcplate 2y ago
> This does not change the point that the insurance company, physician, and medical device company are all complicit in a scam that jacks up the cost of healthcare for everyone. You should probably describe how that works exactly…cause I
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by kcplate 2y ago
Yes, you are paying your premium and you should take advantage of what that provides you, so it’s the obvious choice. I would have made the same choice too. The deeper philosophical question here is not insurance paid vs socialized medicin
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by kcplate 2y ago
> I have no option except to make premiums higher for all of you because I want my wife to have a breast pump. > There is no other way to fix any of this nonsense except to socialize healthcare completely. No offense, but you also had
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by kcplate 2y ago
Not sure why you got downvoted, no one familiar with either profession can argue that it’s not a part of being a cop or a politician
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by kcplate 2y ago
> which I think we all agree is a good thing Not all of us agree and I say that with 3 covid vaccine shots coursing through my body. I believe the two FDA scientists were concerned about the Biden admin demanding vaccine mandates aroun
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by kcplate 2y ago
Gaps should not be an issue. But it’s still good to have a ready talking point around a gap if asked about it in an interview. If you are perceived as being evasive about an employment gap, it’s not unreasonable for an interviewer to draw
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by kcplate 2y ago
Depends. If you were let go from a well known and perceived successful organization that didn’t have a public mass layoff in the press, I am damn sure going to red flag that if you are interviewing with me.
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by kcplate 2y ago
The irony.
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by kcplate 2y ago
> Often, nothing at all is objectionable about a downvoted post. I've read many that are perfectly reasonable, intelligent and specific to an issue at hand, but they still get downvoted because they "went against" some par
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by kcplate 2y ago
I doubt it’s automation, it’s just the differences in HN audience as the day wakes up. Differences in sensibilities in different parts of the world.
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by kcplate 2y ago
Seems you kind of need people who are capable and willing to do both. Not too many Bruce Wayne’s and Tony Starks outside the comic books and movies who are able to both think and spend. Musk’s value to science and technological progress is
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by kcplate 2y ago
What photos did you see that I didn’t?
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by kcplate 2y ago
> (until recently that was taken for granted). I wonder why that attitude changed…oh yeah, I remember now…it’s when our public health authorities started making decisions based on political tribalism instead of trying to actually protect
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by kcplate 2y ago
My opinion is yes, because in reality the alternative is none of the things you mentioned will get a single dollar more than they would if we don’t do it. Call me cynical but if the alternative is the same, I would rather have human knowle
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by kcplate 2y ago
In this case, doctors. In a more general sense, those people who feel they are smarter than you and should control your life.
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by kcplate 2y ago
I predict that this all goes away now with a Trump popular vote win. This tends to only gain support and media coverage when Democrats were winning popular vote but were losing the Electoral college. If you overlay the existing states that
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by kcplate 2y ago
We know of only one planet with life. Of which there are estimates of forms of life number in the billions to possibly a trillion since the formation of our planet. One and only one form of life has evolved the intelligence to even as the
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by kcplate 2y ago
You know, I might be dumb as a stump, but I am pretty sure I can tell if a fan makes me feel cooler on a hot day…and if an expert tells me I am wrong, I’m going to ignore them.
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by kcplate 2y ago
> The constitution isn't worth the paper it's printed on if it's just being ignored. While I agree with that statement, I think you are ignoring that virtually all of the conversation about how the Constitution and Bill of
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by kcplate 2y ago
Yeah that’s it. I am in awe of your reality.

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