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@antipodean said in US Politics:
@canefan said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@dogmeat being the only developed country without a national health system beggars belief also
Especially when you consider they spend nearly twice the public funds per capita than any other nation.
A good article on it is in the NYTIMes (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/upshot/the-real-reason-the-us-has-employer-sponsored-health-insurance.html) but what it doesn't spell out is how complicit organised labour was in driving this series of events by joining the medical profession and insurance industry in preventing state based systems. Instead they opted to make it based on collective bargaining agreements.
An example of free enterprise making things more expensive?
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@canefan said in US Politics:
@antipodean said in US Politics:
@canefan said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@dogmeat being the only developed country without a national health system beggars belief also
Especially when you consider they spend nearly twice the public funds per capita than any other nation.
A good article on it is in the NYTIMes (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/upshot/the-real-reason-the-us-has-employer-sponsored-health-insurance.html) but what it doesn't spell out is how complicit organised labour was in driving this series of events by joining the medical profession and insurance industry in preventing state based systems. Instead they opted to make it based on collective bargaining agreements.
An example of free enterprise making things more expensive?
An example of the corruption of democratic process and interference with free market principles.
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@Duluth said in US Politics:
Without partisan cover there was no ability to set the penalties at the correct level (making a death spiral inevitable).
Didn't it became cheaper for companies to pay the fines for not providing health insurance for their workforce rather than actually provide it?
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At the end of the day the dems would never have made meaningful changes to healthcare (despite controlling the presidency and all of Congress), because they received very large amounts of money from heath insurance companies (in this election cycle it's something like 40% of their funding). They basically gave a handout to insurance companies by making it mandatory (under financial penalty) to buy expensive, crappy health insurance. Insurance costs for grad students at my old school increased 10x.
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I hope this becomes a campaign issue if (and that's a big if) wrongdoing is found by the prosecutor looking into CIA, FBI and DOJ conduct of the Obama administration.
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/eli-lake/michael-flynn-gets-railroaded-by-the-fbi/
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Can someone explain to me how the US got to a state where the two presidential candidates are Trump and this bloke?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/05/22/biden-charlamagne-trump-black/
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@Victor-Meldrew hey at least I still find myself shaking my head he said that. If it was trump I wouldn't bat an eyelash.
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@Bones said in US Politics:
@Victor-Meldrew hey at least I still find myself shaking my head he said that. If it was trump I wouldn't bat an eyelash.
Biden once plagiarized a speech by Neil Kinnock.
Says it all.
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@Victor-Meldrew nicely tied back to Cummingsgate. My doesn't that have a ring to it.
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Biden:" why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university? "
Kinnock: "Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university?"
The pithiest comment I can recall was " Because standards have dropped?"...
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@Bones said in US Politics:
@Victor-Meldrew hey at least I still find myself shaking my head he said that. If it was trump I wouldn't bat an eyelash.
Yep. Are we going to have "Biden derangement syndrome" now though?
I suppose it keeps it fair.
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@Crucial said in US Politics:
@Frank said in US Politics:
The memes on Biden have begun..............
Trump's official social media page posted this.
Is Trump a child?
Redundant question.
Trump's maybe just giving a small bit back
I feel a bit sorry for Joe. But whats going on. Hes clearly losing his mind so why. Is Hillary about to make a comeback?
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Not a good look for Cuomo. Or anyone who had anything to do with this NY order.
New York Health Department website quietly deletes controversial Cuomo order that forced nursing homes to admit coronavirus patients and 'led to 5,000 deaths'
and here's the order
A copy of the page saved by the Internet archive Wayback Machine, however, shows that Cuomo's order stated: "No resident shall be denied readmission or admission to the NH [nursing home] solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19. NHs [Nursing homes] are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission."
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@Crucial said in US Politics:
@Frank said in US Politics:
The memes on Biden have begun..............
Trump's official social media page posted this.
Is Trump a child?
Redundant question.
Hate speech actually
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