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friedmag

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  • we're a nation of middlemen

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  • I don't love Kaiser - the prices still suck. But they sometimes suck less, and their system is far more streamlined than I've had with other insurance providers. Still ridiculous to be trapped in a system with no control over or transparency into costs.

    It would convert nicely enough to a single payer. Granted costs might suck but if they were just absorbed into the system, I wouldn't really care. I could at least believe they are trying to be efficient. As it is, I'm left believing I get charged as much as they think they can get away with. And wth else am I going to do? Kaiser is much cheaper than my employer's other option (there are literally 2), and I've had the other before. It just sucks (slightly) differently.

  • "It's complete BS": Dems go ballistic over Senate shutdown deal

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  • I left a voicemail demanding his resignation. Wtf else can we do? He's not up for reelection until 2030. These fuckers, as usual, can betray us with no repercussions. And they know it.

  • Phew! Close one

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  • If it was a win, everyone would have voted for it. They would have declared victory. They would not have quietly done this on a Sunday with the minimum votes so most of them could have plausible deniability.

  • Republicans who voted for RFK Jr. baffled by his autism-circumcision claims

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  • "Pure Insanity": 1 Air Traffic Controller Reportedly Managed All Flights At Newark Liberty For 3 Hours

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  • Why does law only matter when applied to workers? They'd be better off just ghosting than pocket lines, admittedly.

  • Musk accuses Ukraine leader of ‘feeding off dead bodies of soldiers’ in vicious rant

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  • Right? Overpaid for by a lot, too. Just so he could turn it off whenever his buddy Putin asked.

  • Musk accuses Ukraine leader of ‘feeding off dead bodies of soldiers’ in vicious rant

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  • He sees a model of oligarchy he likes. What else is needed? He has more money than anyone could ever spend in a thousand lifetimes. But now he has power, and it was so, so easy for him.

  • Musk accuses Ukraine leader of ‘feeding off dead bodies of soldiers’ in vicious rant

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  • Not really. He was born wealthy, remember?

  • A big insurer backed off its plan to pay less for anesthesia. That’s bad.

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  • But for the most part, patients aren't really their customers. Employers are. They may want to decrease premiums, but making changes is difficult and at most an annual event. It is very, very far from a free market in the US.

  • How US Taxpayers Helped Elon Musk Become the Richest Man on Earth | Common Dreams

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  • That's a non argument. The VAST majority of wealth we are talking about is in equities which absolutely have a clear price. All that other stuff is noise to confuse the point. You really think the wealthy will put all their money in art that has no intrinsic value? And wait a sec, even if they did, what did they just pay for it? That seems like a perfectly valid basis for tax.

    None of these values are ever perfect. The point is, we pay a small percentage of our assets every year, but the wealthy have convinced us they couldn't possibly. Most don't even "own" anything, it's all under tax and liability protected companies.

  • How US Taxpayers Helped Elon Musk Become the Richest Man on Earth | Common Dreams

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  • This is what bothers me. We say it's impossible to do for the wealthy like this. Yet we regular folks get taxed like this every year. Property taxes. We have to pay for the illiquid shit we own, but it's impossible for the wealthy?