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The easiest way to rebut an opinion you don't like is to pretend the other person endorses a ludicrous absolute that no human being anywhere would. I'm not saying it's the best way, just the easiest. It's also usually a sign of having no real grasp of the issues and an inability to speak to them.

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So why was it 190000 NKR before January? Was the government simply bad at negotiating before January?

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It was a drug that was new to our market, they simply had not got round to do the negotiating on it before. there is no magic negotiating wand the gubmint waves at new products. These things happen over time. You know, like everything else in the real world. Please refer further derp questions to google university.

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He does have that Brown Paper Bag is full of...Money Surprise Look

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I'd love to get a job wading through the crap, er carp.

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I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but I think the price of post-secondary education rose concomitantly with the US's need for soldiers.

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It isn't the overall jobless rate, actually. It's based on the number of people collecting unemployment compensation. If, for example, a person quits a job because they just can't take it anymore, and they don't get another job, they aren't counted.

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Yes, and this project would cover those innocent people as well. Whichever minority you are a part of, as long as you are physically/mentally capable of it, you would be able to get a decent job. The ones who are not capable, ideally, would be provided for by family or government aid. No more motherfucking hiring discrimination against women, POC, disabled, or the LGBT+, at least through the federal program. The question that raises is whether the private sector jobs would feel like they could slack on diversity or get away with more discrimination than before, just because they're not dooming people to starvation and homelessness.

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OMG so adorable. Looks accustomed to sitting for portraiture, too.

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It was a fair question in response to the example you presented; if you're not willing to expand on your own argument, don't make it.

But as I've mentioned, single payer can control costs only at the point of claims submitted to them. If the hospital purchases Epclusa from the drug manufacturer at $1000 a pill, and single payer will reimburse the hospital only $200 a pill, that hospital's got a problem, and it's one that single payer can't fix. Regulations on the pharmaceutical company might, but single payer could not.

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Yeah sorry. I thought I was replying to the OP. 😊I think importing cheap drugs from Canada makes a lot of sense personally.

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Up until a few years back, we had the old-style lever voting booths. I'm still kind of nostalgic about them. Voting felt a lot more real when you finished, pulled the big lever to open the curtains, and you could hear the counters advancing.

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Water and sewers in particular. In our eastern cities a lot of that stuff is over a century old.

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Water, sewers, gas mains, roads, bridges. Pretty much all of it.

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he may lean liberal but he's dirty liberal at best.

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