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ParticipantDoes anyone other than the mayor have to approve this crap?
ParticipantIf you replace the system board, you can swap the hard drive or SSD over to the new one, no problem.
ParticipantAnd hopefully the game will go on for another five years with nothing resolved. Not as if San Diego would be losing anything by not having a bunch of fat guys jumping each others’ bones.
San Diego doesn’t need a football team to be successful.
ParticipantTed Cruz looks somewhat Spanish. As in from Spain, not mixed Indio-Afro-White heritage.
ParticipantFortunately, still nicely down for the month — tends to portend a weak year. Apparently, every down January has been followed by flat or down market over rest of year. Here’s to it!
I did buy some ROL a few days ago. Parent company of Orkin Pest Control, should be able to make a few shekels off the Zika scare even if markets go down.
January 29, 2016 at 1:08 PM in reply to: Well the world is backwards too in Japan… BOJ just went with a negative interest rate… #793709ParticipantRisk Corridors was a Federal program, not a company. Health Republic was a new non-profit insurance company somewhat associated with Freelancers’ Union of NY.
Google those two terms and you’ll read plenty.
January 29, 2016 at 12:50 PM in reply to: Well the world is backwards too in Japan… BOJ just went with a negative interest rate… #793706ParticipantRegardless, private insurance rations care. If we could replace the whole mess with national insurance with a decent level of coverage combined with supplemental plans that act more like old-fashioned insurance but operate across state lines, we’d do much better than right now.
Problem in NY is that the firm with the highest level of coverage (Health Republic) was forced to close due to startup funding (aka Risk Corridors) available to it being cut by Congress in 2014. Which was a dirty trick — allow cooperative health plans to start selling insurance, cut their startup funding last minute, than have the GOP waving willys gloat that “Obamacare exchanges are failing.”
January 29, 2016 at 12:36 PM in reply to: Well the world is backwards too in Japan… BOJ just went with a negative interest rate… #793704Participant^^^
Yes, precisely. The current system with coverage being within restricted geographic areas (other than strictly emergency) worked well when people were largely immobile.
It’s not as if we have border controls between states (OK, OK, with the exception of CA’s ag inspection clowns) and that people don’t go 300 miles away regularly. Or even work between 2-3 states.
January 29, 2016 at 12:24 PM in reply to: Well the world is backwards too in Japan… BOJ just went with a negative interest rate… #793701ParticipantExactly. If universal health care is adopted, you’ll be able to sign up for a supplement as well. Universal + supplements as opposed to universal, same for all, would be the way to go.
But the basic services will be roughly the same from state to state. You’d be basically part of a larger “network.” So if you get sick out of state (non-emergency) and need to see someone, it would have a reasonable chance of being covered.
January 29, 2016 at 12:18 PM in reply to: Well the world is backwards too in Japan… BOJ just went with a negative interest rate… #793698ParticipantI’m for some sort of public-private hybrid, but with more public influence than ACA.
Interesting that Texas, aka conservatopia has death panels. (No surprise for a state that conducts 50% of the executions in the US.) Put in place under Gov. Bush II.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/428426/death-panel-futile-care-law-texas
January 29, 2016 at 12:05 PM in reply to: Well the world is backwards too in Japan… BOJ just went with a negative interest rate… #793695ParticipantFor the majority of Americans, it is, whether it’s called rationing or a high deductible. I’m not sure if a baseline level of public coverage (or public option replaceable with private coverage) would actually make our system worse.
And I’m still frustrated that my aunt needed to wait quite a while to have a PET scan approved for a form of cancer that can grow pretty rapidly if untreated.
It’s almost as if her private insurer said “meh, it would be cheaper if she died in 6 months rather than us paying for treatment.”
January 29, 2016 at 12:00 PM in reply to: Well the world is backwards too in Japan… BOJ just went with a negative interest rate… #793693ParticipantHealth care is not rationed under our system?
January 29, 2016 at 11:41 AM in reply to: Well the world is backwards too in Japan… BOJ just went with a negative interest rate… #793690ParticipantSanders is rising because public health insurance for all (with additional private insurance) is a good idea compared to the jumble we have today. Health care is not a free market anyway, since it’s often bought under duress. So is bringing college costs in line with historical norms. The rest of his ideas are nothing all that special.
And he’s fairly liberal on things like sentencing reform, limitation of surveillance, centrist on 2nd Amendment without being bat guano conservative on other things. i.e. trying to shrink useful gov’t services or force religion on others.
He might be the least irritating out of a bad bunch, and he’s not tied to institutional corruption like the Clintons and Bushes are.
Housing bubble? I suspect that foreign investment will be held back by a high dollar — US housing for Canuckistanis just got 50% more expensive, about 30% for Euro-peons.
ParticipantThe Electoral Kludge is irrelevant in 2016. It’s not a check on populism — the courts are the check on populism. Why should a voter in RI have more power to elect a President than someone living a mile away in MA?
It essentially introduces an element of random error into what would otherwise be a fair election. We’re not a government of the states, we’re a government of the people.
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