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127·1 month agoIt’s about Swift and not one of the richest people in the world who lives in the kleptocracy that passed this legislation and historically has made a big fuss over this issue?
There are other ways to wildly speculate as well if we are doing so evidence-free.
Maybe Ben was being pressured by someone to submit false information and he wanted to ensure his work was scrutinized more and falsehoods uncovered without explicitly bringing attention to the fact that this was his intention.
Too bad they failed to include a double/triple negative to really hammer down the confusion.
It’s my understanding that the individual mandate requires people to buy health insurance from private companies, this means those companies can thrive while offering terrible coverage for high costs without any chance of losing business because of their shady practices. This sounds to me like a plan that a conservative would concoct if they really wanted Laissez-faire / croney capitalism but wanted to placate the left by making it sound like this was entirely government funded.
If this is true, it’s a win-win for the right. Keep it in place and the private medical companies are secure to maintain high profit margins surreptitiously. If it fails, blame the left and you get an easy justification for going back to having no government involvement at all whereby less people pay monthly because there is no individual mandate but the private medical companies are free to charge even more to the people who do pay and when those that don’t pay need medical treatment (everyone eventually in their lifetime) they can charge an arm and a leg and laugh all the way to the bank while medical debt for citizens skyrockets. The best part? If this plan is put in place carefully enough and messaging is carefully crafted, you’ll get nominally left people advocating for it!
Am I wrong?
Pelosicare? More like Romneycare?
(Centre for American Progress)
41·7 months agoMeh, doesn’t sound much better. Could that not make this law even more authoritarian? What counts as political?
Lead actually does taste sweet. Pretty unfortunate that a sweet tasting thing is poisonous. Maybe a better metaphor is irradiated paint on a turd. Kills the bacteria in the GOP turd so as to nominally make eating it less sickening, but the truth is that the irradiated rightist paint is quite a lot more cancerous in the end and there are election antibiotics to get rid of pathogenic GOP bacteria contracted from the turd but if the rightist cancer metastasizes then you’re too far gone for treatment because you’ve lost your democracy.
First gender affirming surgery was 1930 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-forgotten-history-of-the-worlds-first-trans-clinic/ A little more than a few years ago…