For any blue-collar worker that lost a job due to factories moving overseas, or any worker losing a job to ‘downsizing’, the excuse has always been ‘The Market’ (shareholders) demand lower costs. So, fuck the health insurance industry workers if they think they’re different!!!
Never have I so wanted to play a game that I was willing to take the chance of getting vaporized on Kharg Island in order to play it.
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One U.S. Army unit is getting creative to keep soldiers from walking out the door: let them play the new "Grand Theft Auto VI" video game.
An Army unit at Fort Stewart, Georgia, is offering active-duty soldiers a four-day pass to play the long-awaited latest installment in the storied franchise when it launches this fall — but only if they reenlist, U.S. officials told CBS News. Twenty soldiers in the 9th Brigade Engineer Battalion, part of the 3rd Infantry Division, have already taken the deal, an Army spokesperson said. About 130 are eligible, and they must reenlist for at least two years and up to six.
"The idea was to have a unique incentives program that connects to what Soldiers are interested in," Lt. Col. Angel Tomko, a spokesperson for the 3rd Infantry Division, said in a statement. "The command team, in conjunction with the career counselor, wanted to get soldiers excited to reenlist."
The perk has been proposed for a single battalion, though the Army said it could expand. Rockstar Games' "GTA VI" is due Nov. 19, with the last installment dating to 2013.
Speaking as someone who grew up in an area where your career options were “prison guard” or “counter jockey,” it really is that grim out in the sticks.
Another dumb myth used as a Republican scare tactic is that socialized medicine means you can't "keep your doctor". They aren't even very clear what they mean by that, but I think they are trying to draw a parallel between healthcare and the older scare issue of busing to public schools. If we 'bus' you, you'll be forced to go to some substandard government hospital on the wrong side of town where the doctors and nurses have not pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps. Boil it down further and, surprise surprise, it's actually about race. Republican voters will be damed if 'other' people get healthcare because surely that can only happen if they are forced to give up their own. Getting back to the actual myth though, ask yourself: how much choice in doctors do you have anyway? If you have private insurance, you're limited to whatever network you're placed in. In single payer medicine, there are no networks. Your choice of doctor is limited to whichever doctors' offices are currently able to accept patients. Doctor availability is an issue in many healthcare models, including single payer, but the reality is that you actually have more freedom to pick your doctor with a single payer as opposed to a single network.
Hence the freakout over OBAMAcare. Republicans activated that core American mean streak like a sleeper agent and successfully got it coded as “ghettocare.” The searing hate I have for this party knows no limits.
I have worked in health insurance for almost 40 years and would love for it to stop being a necessary evil. and hey, our CEO made ONLY $19.5M last year!
OT: This is totally bizarre. Sean Duffy lives in a reality TV world and actually seems to think it is a real not totally made up thing. The text of the post is this:
>>Sean Duffy tells his daughter she cannot go to Harvard because they have "professionalized figuring out how they can take good young girls and corrupt their minds">>
but the video is so strange with suspenseful music and cutaways to him and his wife sitting on the couch talking to the camera, not to mention the things he says which have no connection to the world in which we actually live. (Although, to be fair, my wife did start out at Harvard as a practicing Catholic and graduated a non-practicing Catholic, but I'm pretty sure the university didn't actively to to achieve this goal.)
Mike Johnson would no doubt kill the M4A bill because it has dirty sinful words in it. No god-fearin’ Christian wants anything to do with pubic healthcare.
Meanwhile, it might be a good idea to shore up and expand the provisions of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka the “big fucking deal.” There are still ten states that have not accepted Medicaid expansion (these include Georgia and Wisconsin, ffs). There are exchange subsidies that need restoring.
The argument I always hear against "socialized medicine" is that my taxes will go up.
Sometimes the argument even comes with numbers.
What pisses me off until I laugh is that the numbers never account for the fact that right now I'm paying $1,300/month for myself and my adult daughter, for a $10,000 deductible policy.
The numbers assume I'm going to keep paying that, and then also pay maybe 5% of my income in Medicare tax (instead of the current 2.9%).
That mendacious argument works on people who don't know where their money comes from and goes to, and couldn't reverse-engineer their own W2; might have to take their taxes to HR Block even if they could have used the old 1040-EZ; and have no idea what their total cost of employment is.
Last year my health insurance premiums went up about 20%. I don't recall the exact figure now. Thanks to quirks of my contract and state law (which was made to keep school districts from paying too much of the premium in unfair competition with neighboring districts) almost all of that wound up in my contributed. So my portion of the premiums went up about 120%.
And I was still one of the lucky ones in our fucked up system.
private health insurers may not be their friends after all.
Yes but, you criticized them! They were trying to be helpful and all, but you criticized them, and hurt their feelings. Now they're all sulky and don't do their jobs well. Leave corporate CEOs alone!
Not to worry, Linda McMahon will get to work on this right away, by…. defunding the Ivy Leagues. Followed by a DoJ investigation into “woke indoctrination in med schools” and sustained harassment of the researchers from the likes of Chris Rufo.
The next step is for the tDOJ to start "investigating" the Yale School of Public Health for feloniously advocating for a policy position they disagree with.
Ta, Robyn. Yes, Medicare for All that includes vision, hearing, and dental care. AOT, K.
For any blue-collar worker that lost a job due to factories moving overseas, or any worker losing a job to ‘downsizing’, the excuse has always been ‘The Market’ (shareholders) demand lower costs. So, fuck the health insurance industry workers if they think they’re different!!!
When that gif was posted in England, the poster was arrested for threatening Liz Truss.
I....have been a gamer my entire life.
Never have I so wanted to play a game that I was willing to take the chance of getting vaporized on Kharg Island in order to play it.
***
One U.S. Army unit is getting creative to keep soldiers from walking out the door: let them play the new "Grand Theft Auto VI" video game.
An Army unit at Fort Stewart, Georgia, is offering active-duty soldiers a four-day pass to play the long-awaited latest installment in the storied franchise when it launches this fall — but only if they reenlist, U.S. officials told CBS News. Twenty soldiers in the 9th Brigade Engineer Battalion, part of the 3rd Infantry Division, have already taken the deal, an Army spokesperson said. About 130 are eligible, and they must reenlist for at least two years and up to six.
"The idea was to have a unique incentives program that connects to what Soldiers are interested in," Lt. Col. Angel Tomko, a spokesperson for the 3rd Infantry Division, said in a statement. "The command team, in conjunction with the career counselor, wanted to get soldiers excited to reenlist."
The perk has been proposed for a single battalion, though the Army said it could expand. Rockstar Games' "GTA VI" is due Nov. 19, with the last installment dating to 2013.
Speaking as someone who grew up in an area where your career options were “prison guard” or “counter jockey,” it really is that grim out in the sticks.
GTA works fine in one or two hour chunks, so there's really no need to take days off to play it, either.
Another dumb myth used as a Republican scare tactic is that socialized medicine means you can't "keep your doctor". They aren't even very clear what they mean by that, but I think they are trying to draw a parallel between healthcare and the older scare issue of busing to public schools. If we 'bus' you, you'll be forced to go to some substandard government hospital on the wrong side of town where the doctors and nurses have not pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps. Boil it down further and, surprise surprise, it's actually about race. Republican voters will be damed if 'other' people get healthcare because surely that can only happen if they are forced to give up their own. Getting back to the actual myth though, ask yourself: how much choice in doctors do you have anyway? If you have private insurance, you're limited to whatever network you're placed in. In single payer medicine, there are no networks. Your choice of doctor is limited to whichever doctors' offices are currently able to accept patients. Doctor availability is an issue in many healthcare models, including single payer, but the reality is that you actually have more freedom to pick your doctor with a single payer as opposed to a single network.
Even nonprofit plans are sometimes difficult. I can't get to a neuromuscular specialist. Now in the second round of appeals
Hence the freakout over OBAMAcare. Republicans activated that core American mean streak like a sleeper agent and successfully got it coded as “ghettocare.” The searing hate I have for this party knows no limits.
I have worked in health insurance for almost 40 years and would love for it to stop being a necessary evil. and hey, our CEO made ONLY $19.5M last year!
Yale is communist.-->JD Vance went to Yale.-->JD Vance is a communist.
Eat your heart out, Mr. Spock.
Seems logically sound to me.
I went to DKU.
OT: This is totally bizarre. Sean Duffy lives in a reality TV world and actually seems to think it is a real not totally made up thing. The text of the post is this:
>>Sean Duffy tells his daughter she cannot go to Harvard because they have "professionalized figuring out how they can take good young girls and corrupt their minds">>
but the video is so strange with suspenseful music and cutaways to him and his wife sitting on the couch talking to the camera, not to mention the things he says which have no connection to the world in which we actually live. (Although, to be fair, my wife did start out at Harvard as a practicing Catholic and graduated a non-practicing Catholic, but I'm pretty sure the university didn't actively to to achieve this goal.)
https://bsky.app/profile/factpostnews.bsky.social/post/3mthaagw3yp2m
Kayleigh McEnany went to Harvard. Maybe they can ask her for tips on resistance techniques.
Cure that he thinks any Ivy would want his spawn.
Mike Johnson would no doubt kill the M4A bill because it has dirty sinful words in it. No god-fearin’ Christian wants anything to do with pubic healthcare.
We're not getting M4A until 29, at the earliest.
Meanwhile, it might be a good idea to shore up and expand the provisions of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka the “big fucking deal.” There are still ten states that have not accepted Medicaid expansion (these include Georgia and Wisconsin, ffs). There are exchange subsidies that need restoring.
The argument I always hear against "socialized medicine" is that my taxes will go up.
Sometimes the argument even comes with numbers.
What pisses me off until I laugh is that the numbers never account for the fact that right now I'm paying $1,300/month for myself and my adult daughter, for a $10,000 deductible policy.
The numbers assume I'm going to keep paying that, and then also pay maybe 5% of my income in Medicare tax (instead of the current 2.9%).
That mendacious argument works on people who don't know where their money comes from and goes to, and couldn't reverse-engineer their own W2; might have to take their taxes to HR Block even if they could have used the old 1040-EZ; and have no idea what their total cost of employment is.
It does not work on me.
Last year my health insurance premiums went up about 20%. I don't recall the exact figure now. Thanks to quirks of my contract and state law (which was made to keep school districts from paying too much of the premium in unfair competition with neighboring districts) almost all of that wound up in my contributed. So my portion of the premiums went up about 120%.
And I was still one of the lucky ones in our fucked up system.
“pay less in taxes than your current premiums!” be our rallying cry
private health insurers may not be their friends after all.
Yes but, you criticized them! They were trying to be helpful and all, but you criticized them, and hurt their feelings. Now they're all sulky and don't do their jobs well. Leave corporate CEOs alone!
<I mean, it *is* ‘public’ and ‘health.’>
It's the care part that is lacking.
Not to worry, Linda McMahon will get to work on this right away, by…. defunding the Ivy Leagues. Followed by a DoJ investigation into “woke indoctrination in med schools” and sustained harassment of the researchers from the likes of Chris Rufo.
...before renewing her subscription to Modern Cults Quarterly.
The next step is for the tDOJ to start "investigating" the Yale School of Public Health for feloniously advocating for a policy position they disagree with.
And hurting the feelings of the billionaire class.
Hmmm...this may have been a DEI!
GMTA
Gee, it's as though the dreaded welfare state had merit, and the people demagoguing against it knew that full well.
“Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine”…. sponsored by Chesterfield Cancer Sticks.
Ronnie was right! Remember how we got Medicare in the sixties, and then Soviet gulags?
The Vietnam war, Pol Pot...