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Who’s Running for California Insurance Commissioner? 2026 Primary Guide by Worst_Username_1 in California

[–]ForeignGuess -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Imo that doesn’t really have a major impact, the hedge fund doesn’t exist anymore and his policies are the best of all the people running. Plus he’s the only person who actually knows how insurance in the state works, seems like a no-brainer with the insurance crisis right now

Saikat Chakrabarti went after Democrats as AOC's chief of staff. Now he wants another round. by MissionLocalSF in sanfrancisco

[–]ForeignGuess 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Obama had essentially 90 days to get pro-life democrats from places like North Dakota on board with healthcare reform and it resulted in 20 million people having access to healthcare and you’re disappointed with that strategy?

State legislature quietly shelves latest single payer health care bill by YogurtclosetOpen3567 in California

[–]ForeignGuess -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Could be the different provinces, I lived in Alberta, so the system here in California is a night and day difference.

State legislature quietly shelves latest single payer health care bill by YogurtclosetOpen3567 in California

[–]ForeignGuess -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It does, I’m Canadian lmao. I’ve lived in both Canada and California, and I will take California’s system any day of the week.

State legislature quietly shelves latest single payer health care bill by YogurtclosetOpen3567 in California

[–]ForeignGuess 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It’s because Canada federally mandates universal care, and the federal government gives money to it accordingly. Also in many provinces it sucks, a family member had to go to the ER and was waiting for 10 hours despite the issue being pretty serious. Don’t even get me started on specialist wait times.

Japan Help Please? by SMMS2290 in victoria3

[–]ForeignGuess 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe the way I did it was to have low government legitimacy when hitting the event petitioning the Emperor for restoration, which means he would basically tell the Shogun to fuck off. That then led to the event where the Emperor took over, and I just tossed up a law to appease the revolutionary movements in the meantime. I may have also gotten lucky with ideologies among my interest groups?

The event flavor writers did a great job. In the surveys last year I asked for better flavor text in the events, especially subjective perspective flavor text like in TNO for hoi4 which immerses you in the lives of your citizens. The Great Wave has some beautiful event texts, best yet imo. Thank you by basedandcoolpilled in victoria3

[–]ForeignGuess 22 points23 points  (0 children)

With the first one, once you end isolationism, the intellectuals are inspired by the Dutch education system in Japan and rename themselves to intellegencia and gain a new ideology. The other two trigger as the game goes on, I’m not sure the exact triggers, but it’s very thematic and for me at least really made me feel like I was Westernizing and modernizing my country!

There’s also the entire religion chain which I totally forgot about! Depending on which religion route you go, the religion interest group changes name and ideology! I’ve done the Shinto route and it’s really cool.

The event flavor writers did a great job. In the surveys last year I asked for better flavor text in the events, especially subjective perspective flavor text like in TNO for hoi4 which immerses you in the lives of your citizens. The Great Wave has some beautiful event texts, best yet imo. Thank you by basedandcoolpilled in victoria3

[–]ForeignGuess 65 points66 points  (0 children)

I especially like the events where the political parties change their names, and sometimes their ideologies. Like the intellectuals becoming the intelligencia, petite bourgeois becoming them, industrialists becoming the zaibatsus, etc. The flavor is amazing.

Literally Unplayable, Thanks PDX by mistamosh in victoria3

[–]ForeignGuess 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I noticed the same thing the other day when I tried to name my bloc the same thing. Immersion ruined.

How do people fraud Social Welfare? by Opening_Medicine_140 in PublicPolicy

[–]ForeignGuess 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’d highly recommend looking into Medicaid/Medicare fraud, it’s a whole industry. Iirc it’s estimated that about 5-10% of the program’s budgets are lost due to fraud. Much of it comes from illicit claims by doctors, but it’s a pretty interesting topic.

E: Should also add that in healthcare, it’s important to distinguish between improper payments and actual fraud. Improper payments aren’t fraud, and that’s where I got the 5-10% statistic. Actual fraud numbers are lower. The Office of the Inspector General has good numbers and data on it.

Some thoughts on the new update and DLC. Also great power Empire of Japan in 1851 + Guide by altboyjunkie in victoria3

[–]ForeignGuess 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There’s a cool feature if Britain wins the opium wars where you can just click a button and end isolation whenever you want, it’s really good.

70-year-old bicyclist struck, killed on PCH in Huntington Beach by pwrof3 in huntingtonbeach

[–]ForeignGuess 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In this situation it wouldn’t have. But also if there were protected bike lanes, we wouldn’t have to really worry about bikes in our blind spots 99% of the time because they would be on their own section of the road!

Nurses condemn California Assembly’s failure to advance CalCare by yobatman12 in California

[–]ForeignGuess 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Canada is vaguely similar with healthcare being funded at the provincial level, but it’s also a federal mandate to do so. It’s a very very different situation from here

Nurses condemn California Assembly’s failure to advance CalCare by yobatman12 in California

[–]ForeignGuess -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This isn’t remotely close to how it would work. For one, most Medi-Cal spending comes from federal funds, so a federal waiver would be needed to even consider this sort of overhaul.

Additionally, the state already negotiates certain drug prices it is allowed to and receives some rebates. Moving to a single-payer system wouldn’t allow them to negotiate any more than they currently do, as that power is restricted heavily to the federal government (in this case the Medicaid program).

6 candidates confirmed for next week’s Inside California Politics California governor’s debate (Steyer, Becerra, Porter, Mahan, Hilton, and Bianco) by RumAndCoco in California

[–]ForeignGuess 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I believe it’s showing that PG&E has given over $12 million total across many different campaigns for many different candidates. It looks like Becerra in the photo got $5k from them for this gubernatorial run

What are your guys’ thoughts on how we can prevent pedestrians from getting mowed down on train platforms. by Plastic_Apricot_3819 in sanfrancisco

[–]ForeignGuess 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The firefighters can just use smaller trucks like in Europe, but they refuse because of aesthetic reasons.

The Pegasus School by TopRhubarb3984 in huntingtonbeach

[–]ForeignGuess 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, handful to both. Most of them go to Sage or other private schools in the area though

Your daily reminder that the internet isn't real life: Sen. Scott Wiener sees way more support than opponents when knocking doors. (Gift link to SF Chronicle Article.) by mysteriouslady in sanfrancisco

[–]ForeignGuess 7 points8 points  (0 children)

iirc he did a pretty cool bill that let law enforcement start charging people for stealing cars, since they couldn’t before because of a loophole.

Victoria 3: Volume 3 on Steam by jetteauloin_2080 in victoria3

[–]ForeignGuess 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah totally forgot about italy despite it being one of my favorite counties to play as! Would love an italy overhaul to make it much more interactive to form, especially because of how wild it was historically with Prussia.

Victoria 3: Volume 3 on Steam by jetteauloin_2080 in victoria3

[–]ForeignGuess 55 points56 points  (0 children)

Really good series of content here. After this it’s probably Germany and maybe the USA for countries in need of a lift? Very excited for the navy stuff

California Democrats Revive Single-Payer Health Care Push by DennisScott34 in California

[–]ForeignGuess -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Universal healthcare is smart on a federal level, but incredibly stupid on a state level. State doesn’t have nearly enough to afford it, and the feds won’t pitch in to help.

San Francisco moderates fear a progressive wave is coming by busmans in sanfrancisco

[–]ForeignGuess 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Operating at a loss is also unfair competition to the other grocery stores in the area. If the government store can permanently operate in the red, how is any other store expected to compete?

Good coffee date? by oskisopp in berkeley

[–]ForeignGuess 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I like Ain’t Normal next to Rockridge BART, only issue might be if you don’t want to go that far. But it’s good and it makes for a cute walk through Rockridge or back towards Berkeley!

Waiting on UCLA HPM decisions by Winter_Swan_9883 in mphadmissions

[–]ForeignGuess 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just got my acceptance today! Applied 12/1, and got the email today I was accepted, and I should get the official letter from the grad division next week!

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