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by vundercind 2y ago
There’s some nuance to this. The ACA’s loss ratio rules don’t apply to self-funded plans (many large employers use these) even if they’re administered (and possibly re-insured) by a health insurance company, which is usually the case. Just
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by vundercind 2y ago
This is one of those things we state as a normative absolute in general society and you usually only see the nuance (or how it’s basically just a polite lie, in some cases) in relevant college classes or spaces dominated by certain kinds of
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by vundercind 2y ago
I can’t begin to relate to seeing someone with a median income failing to donate to some particular go-fund-me as the same as choosing to head an organization that makes more money when people don’t get the health care they need, and overse
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by vundercind 2y ago
Interesting, tried Vermont but couldn’t find it (a 2015 single-payer effort, but not that), will look more later, I’d love to see what a state-level law at governments taking over hospitals and such even looks like, gotta be some weird re
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by vundercind 2y ago
“GitHub for if you compete with MS and someone high in your org is concerned about letting MS host your code.” “GitHub with a worse UI except GitHub’s has been getting worse for years so now they’re both similarly bad so never mind” “Worse
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by vundercind 2y ago
All of those are extremely different situations, so what are you getting at?
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by vundercind 2y ago
Specifically of antisocial CEOs, board members, et c. That specific kind of vigilante murders.
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by vundercind 2y ago
Hold on, we can come back to this, but: which states have held a vote on nationalizing (state-izing?) healthcare?
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by vundercind 2y ago
> Was this guy uniquely evil, as far as health care executives go? I think if you poll the people taking this as a good thing, you will get an overwhelming answer of “probably not”, and the implications are exactly what you suppose.
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by vundercind 2y ago
Wasn’t the topic scorn?
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by vundercind 2y ago
Yes, there is a lot of money behind that position.
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by vundercind 2y ago
Literally everyone I know IRL was like, “nice. More please.” I was actually surprised and heartened to see the initial HN thread, even, was overwhelmingly supportive. This is top of my list for conversation topics to steer things toward whe
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by vundercind 2y ago
I’m saying not-cheerleading-murder isn’t exactly a firm norm here anymore. Not even among the elites.
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by vundercind 2y ago
This is kinda true, even with a generous take on the CIA: they don’t want rogue freebooters screwing with their plans—why, you might destabilize a democracy they weren’t planning to replace with a dictatorship! But also the trading reputa
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by vundercind 2y ago
Another extremely popular person. Who violated that norm on camera and had it broadcast all over the place. And remained extremely popular. What norm?
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by vundercind 2y ago
Yes, I agree that is at least one reason that happened, and possibly the main one. I think the Nation’s quote of him on the topic points out something that may be true, which is that he might have balked at doing it given how many people wo
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by vundercind 2y ago
The thing you don’t like is that the voters do agree they want this, though.
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by vundercind 2y ago
Yes, we pay more per-capita for our public healthcare system than some countries do for universal coverage, but we don’t cover everyone. Just for the public parts. Once you actually tally up how many people are having their healthcare pai
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by vundercind 2y ago
The trouble is that nothing productive was going to come of anything else, either. That’s where these reactions come from.
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by vundercind 2y ago
Sure, the actual universal element of other OECD healthcare systems is price controls, de facto or direct, not necessarily whether private insurance still exists. I don’t think even a majority outlaw private insurance, and it’s a major part
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by vundercind 2y ago
The incoming President told his supporters that if he lost they’d still have to the option of shooting his opponent, when he ran in 2016. Instead of being ejected from politics forever by an outraged public, he went on to win that election.
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by vundercind 2y ago
> At any rate: there's no serious theory of change that begins with murdering health care industry people. I dunno. This is the most publicly-united I’ve seen people against the industry maybe ever. Usually they’re separately-angry
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by vundercind 2y ago
It was reported in The Nation (and nowhere else that I ever found when I went looking—so, grain of salt) that Obama said that all the totally unnecessary jobs that’d be eliminated are exactly why he wouldn’t push full single payer. It’s a r
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by vundercind 2y ago
The family’s rich off money made killing some people and making a ton more suffer. Live by the sword… > If he had done wrong to people, he should be brought to justice via the court of law (in a democratic nation at least..) Even the Sac
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by vundercind 2y ago
I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out what drives such high costs in US healthcare, some years back. My conclusion is everything does. This conveniently makes it easy to dismiss criticism of any one part (all of which are respo
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by vundercind 2y ago
To be fair, having the “Sec” in your “DevSecOps” signify nothing whatsoever is basically the industry standard for companies describing their offerings with that term.
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by vundercind 2y ago
Wow. Almost none of those words would have even been among my third-string choices of words to use to describe gitlab in one short sentence. “The” and “platform” might have made it.
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by vundercind 2y ago
> (Ironically, SOTA LLMs are already way better at writing than typical person writing stuff for money.) I’m aware of multiple companies that would love to know about these, because they’re currently flailing around trying to replace wri
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by vundercind 2y ago
Unironically this. The fastest “web apps” I’ve seen that weren’t absolutely required to be javascript-heavy to operate by virtue of what they do, have been mostly or entirely rendered server-side and have just sent entire pages for most i
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by vundercind 2y ago
If you see shortages elsewhere, it’s not crazy to prepare by stocking up in case it spreads. I mean, you’re gonna use it eventually either way. The remains true even if the entire and only cause of the shortage is people stocking up for fea

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