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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 …

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 rele…

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…

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 …

“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 ye…

All of those are extremely different situations, so what are you getting at?

Specifically of antisocial CEOs, board members, et c. That specific kind of vigilante murders.

Hold on, we can come back to this, but: which states have held a vote on nationalizing (state-izing?) healthcare?

> 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”…

Wasn’t the topic scorn?

Yes, there is a lot of money behind that position.

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 o…

I’m saying not-cheerleading-murder isn’t exactly a firm norm here anymore. Not even among the elites.

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 t…

Another extremely popular person. Who violated that norm on camera and had it broadcast all over the place. And remained extremely popular. What norm?

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 th…

The thing you don’t like is that the voters do agree they want this, though.

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 actuall…

The trouble is that nothing productive was going to come of anything else, either. That’s where these reactions come from.

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 eve…

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 for…

> 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 in…

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 …

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 cour…

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…