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541.
by refurb 1y ago
Can you give me a specific example? Last I checked no insurer has more than 30% market share.
542.
by refurb 1y ago
> all free capitalism and no public intervention Who is going to tell them?
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by refurb 1y ago
Where did you get that number from? It doesn't even pass the sniff test. 17% of GDP is spent on healthcare. Claiming 60% of that is just "middleman overhead" makes no sense when the highest European countries spend 70% of w
544.
by refurb 1y ago
> Most other advanced nations have nationalized health care which works much better. That's not true by the definition of "nationalization" (government ownership) Switzerland and Netherlands are entirely private insurance.
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by refurb 1y ago
The fun part is that government intervention has driven a lot of the messed up things about US healthcare. Super inflated prices nobody pays? - law on “U&C prices” Consolidation of small oncology clinics into huge hospital systems? - la
546.
by refurb 1y ago
Yet there are plenty of examples of monopoly or near monopoly businesses getting their butts handed to them by startups. Yahoo, BlackBerry, Kodak, Nokia, Sears. So it’s clearly not “once you have a monopoly it’s game over for competition”.
547.
by refurb 1y ago
That’s not true in my experience. Look at the adoption of CAR-T therapies. It took 3-4 years before they were regularly used in the US.
548.
by refurb 1y ago
That’s a stress test. Attach an EKG, have the patient ride a bike with significant exertion. If there is a lack of blood flow, it will show up in the EKG as alteration of the electrical signals through the heart.
549.
by refurb 1y ago
Florida's property tax rate on average, according to Google is 0.79%. Average home price is $411,000, for property taxes of $3,200 per year. That doesn't seem insane compared to say California with 0.71%?
550.
by refurb 1y ago
That seems like an obvious observation? People accumulate wealth over a life time of work. It would be entirely expect that younger generations have less wealth than older generations.
551.
by refurb 1y ago
Sometimes the Overton window is in the right place. Just add it to the pile of detrimental policies that California has created over the past few decades.
552.
by refurb 1y ago
I mean Vietnam was stopped? And Afghanistan? Korea the US never started.
553.
by refurb 1y ago
It sounds like you’re backing away from meddling is always bad? That’s it’s ok for the right reasons?
554.
by refurb 1y ago
Once again you ignore the facts (with sources) and zero in on the one claim irrelevant to the discussion. I take that as you can’t actually prove the article is wrong?
555.
by refurb 1y ago
Would it have been ethical for the CIA to meddle in German politics to prevent Hitler from coming to power?
556.
by refurb 1y ago
> As if the money was for the strikers and not just their leaders... So you're claiming the leaders were able to convince 250,000 union members to strike because... the leaders wanted it? That makes no sense. As laid out in the art
557.
by refurb 1y ago
The article provides more than 50 references to sources. It has has links to previously classified CIA documents . Your rebuttal consists of one source completely unrelated to what happened in Chile. Well done. And what the CIA was doing
558.
by refurb 1y ago
Whether you think the USSR meddling is unethical does change that it happened. Do you just shrug your ahoulders and do nothing?
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by refurb 1y ago
Sources rather than “trust me bro” would be nice. “ In the best traditions of the CIA, catastrophe ensued. Viaux ignored the explicit U.S. instructions to cease-and-desist; two abduction efforts against Schneider, on 19 and 20 October, fail
560.
by refurb 1y ago
Love your attempt at bringing in Holocaust denial to evoke emotions. The total funding was $7M over 2 years. The strike involved 250,000 trucker drivers, or $28 per striker. As the source said in a NY Times article.. ““The whole point of
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by refurb 1y ago
But if the USDR is already meddling it’s not longer purely “domestic affairs” is it? If your take is that it’s unethical, that’s fine, but you need to consider the alternative - giving the USSR free rein to meddle in the domestic politics o
562.
by refurb 1y ago
Is it worse if the alternative is another authoritarian? It's not a choice between democracy and a fascist (Allende was going regardless), it was a choice between a US friendly authoritarian or a USSR friendly authoritarian. This is a
563.
by refurb 1y ago
Saying the "CIA overthrew its democracy and installed a fascist dictator" is a vast oversimplification of what actually happened and ignores the role of other international actors, not to mention the domestic actors themselves. Li
564.
by refurb 1y ago
They already exist! Well, small ones. A hotel I was staying at had a small bar fridge that used a Peltier. I only know because it stopped working so I checked it and realized it was only a Peltier plus a heat exchanged (a cyclopropane loo
565.
by refurb 1y ago
They could just change the drivers title to "Train attendants" like Vancouver does and their union will remain strong.
566.
by refurb 1y ago
The stupidity of it (or lack thereof) wasn’t the point of the comment I replied to.
567.
by refurb 1y ago
The EPA sits under the executive branch. Thus the chief executive (President) has the say on how the executive functions. There are limitations, but if a research arm was created purely by executive power, then it can be stopped through ex
568.
by refurb 1y ago
It's not the same drug for the latest death this article is focused on... "Phase I study of SRP-9004".
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by refurb 1y ago
US private healthcare insurance is required to pay for “medically necessary” treatments and generally does pay for medicine where they are unlikely to see the benefits (see statins).
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by refurb 1y ago
It seems like adjuvant treatment is rather routine at this point? And the question would be “do I believe the test when it tells me the cancer is gone?” When you know it’s not 100% accurate? Or do you always do the adjuvant treatment consid

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