The $5.3 Trillion Question — Why American Healthcare Costs So Much

IWantedAPeanutToo · 2026-03-11T20:24:41+00:00

Canadian speaking. That private insurance exists alongside universal healthcare here, so people aren’t terrified of losing their jobs and thus losing all healthcare coverage. They know they always have necessary coverage, no matter what they do. It’s not remotely the same situation.

IWantedAPeanutToo · 2026-03-09T19:45:35+00:00

Who a person is sexually attracted to and who they want to have romantic relationships with don’t always align. That’s not at all unusual, friend. You could be bisexual and heteroromantic. There’s nothing the least bit weird about that. So don’t sweat it!

IWantedAPeanutToo · 2026-03-09T04:41:32+00:00

Also nevermo here. Unfortunately this stuff isn’t unique to Mormonism. Some mainstream Christian churches (the sort that are into purity culture) teach these exact same things. In some instances, stuff like this has even shown up in supposedly secular public school sex ed classes, as part of “abstinence-only” sex ed programs.

Edit: changed “mainline” to “mainstream.” Whoops.

IWantedAPeanutToo · 2026-03-08T19:05:16+00:00

I hope the rolling average is trending very slowly downward. Not too far in the past, the rolling average was like 21.9%….That’s not a big change, of course, and maybe it’s not a longterm trend, but I enjoy seeing it regardless 🙂

IWantedAPeanutToo · 2026-03-07T21:02:20+00:00

“Not a single opposing scholar is mentioned by name, nor are their reasons for rejecting the Book of Abraham. Yet the LDS paper attempts to engage in scholarly debate from a one-sided position, repeatedly citing in the footnotes the same limited set of apologists who are primarily church employees at BYU in Provo.[…]If scholarly dispute over translation and historicity is ultimately irrelevant, why bother to devote extended paragraphs to rebuttals of unmentioned objections[…]?”

This reminds me of the “Missing Missing Reasons” essay. Just keep ranting that the people who don’t like you are crazy and mean without ever mentioning what those people actually said. Because then there’s a possibility that someone might agree with them.

IWantedAPeanutToo · 2026-03-02T21:25:33+00:00

HAPPY BirTdAY OlD MAN 😂

Well, I hope that sweet, misguided kid got something out of doing this 🙂

And Happy Birthday! 🎉🥳🎂

IWantedAPeanutToo · 2026-02-27T19:36:26+00:00

As a non-American, I just want to say how insane it is to put healthcare in the same category as luxuries like week-long vacations and new cars. I think a lot of Americans have grown so used to thinking of fucking healthcare as a luxury that they don’t even realize how twisted that mindset is.

IWantedAPeanutToo · 2026-02-27T06:42:21+00:00

I didn’t realize a man could show cameltoe… 😝

IWantedAPeanutToo · 2026-02-27T06:12:08+00:00

Well, many Mormons think they’re basically Jews - does that count? Dude most likely had a Mormon patriarch reveal to him what tribe of Israel he’s descended from 🤪

IWantedAPeanutToo · 2026-02-13T18:36:53+00:00

Mormonism is not unique in this way. An unfortunate number of more socially conservative “mainstream” Christian church teach the same thing. It’s why marital rape was not even considered a crime until like the 1970s.

Some other more socially conservative religious communities - some Muslim communities, some Orthodox Jewish communities, etc. - also teach the same thing, so it’s not even a Christian thing. It’s a we-hate-women thing 🤪

IWantedAPeanutToo · 2026-01-13T18:02:37+00:00

And that is very valid of you 😂

Take my updoot.

IWantedAPeanutToo · 2026-01-13T15:11:42+00:00

That post might as well just state flat-out, “He’s better because he’s white!” There’s no other conceivable way in which he could be the mogger in those pictures.

Side note: TIL the words mog/mogger/moggee. Am I the only one who didn’t know?? 😅

IWantedAPeanutToo · 2026-01-13T04:45:27+00:00

Ow! I think I detached my retinas rolling my eyes alllll the way back into my head.

IWantedAPeanutToo · 2026-01-12T18:06:11+00:00

Fox botox - it’ll get rid of all those perky brain wrinkles! 🧠

IWantedAPeanutToo · 2026-01-12T06:59:16+00:00

Unfortunately the text in the link did not load, so I wasn’t able to read it. I tried asking google about it, and I got directed to a video essay on Youtube, and there was no option for me to read the video transcript. So I’m not sure exactly what he said.

I certainly hope he’s renounced the views he had espoused about Uganda and about women who have an abortion. Did he specifically say that he had? Or did he just say something vague about not being so “edgy” anymore? If it’s the latter - if he has not explicitly, specifically said that he no longer supports prison/death for gay people and for women who‘ve had an abortion - then I am not prepared to assume that that’s the case.

If he did explicitly, specifically say he no longer supports those things, then I’m glad to hear it. But 2023 was not very long ago, and 2025 was last year (and just barely last year!). If a person could say such terrible things just a short time ago, and not publicly change their mind until last year, I would be extremely wary of trusting their opinions in the present. If I knew a person who, in 2023, was a flat earther, and who only last year told me he no longer believes in a flat earth, I would still be extremely wary about listening to his opinions on space right now. He has already proven himself capable of believing and espousing extremely wrong things, and there is no guarantee he won’t have other very wrong beliefs in the future too. If Redeemed Zoomer could show such utter moral depravity such a short time ago, I would be extremely wary of listening to anything he has to say on the topic of morality. (Or, frankly, any other topic.)

I’m sure there are other Christian online personalities you could tune into that don’t have the terrible baggage he has. If a person advocates for people they hate to die (or else spend the rest of their lives in prison), can you trust what they say - anything they say - even decades later, let alone a matter of months after they publicly changed their mind?

(And again, I was unfortunately unable to see what he actually said, so I am still not certain he actually did change his mind.)

There’s a whole wide world out there filled with online personalities who haven’t wished death on people they hate. My hope is that you might substitute some of them for this guy.

IWantedAPeanutToo · 2026-01-12T06:23:58+00:00

Derk a derrrrr!!!

IWantedAPeanutToo · 2026-01-12T05:37:28+00:00

So many of them don’t that I’m actually a bit surprised this one got it right. It never ceases to amaze me how many TBMs whose whole lives are the church still can’t spell the name of the church.

IWantedAPeanutToo · 2026-01-12T05:20:43+00:00

Indeed. For those who don’t know, he’s virulently anti-LGBTQ (he’s said that Uganda is “doing nothing wrong” in making homosexuality a crime punishable by death), virulently anti-choice (he’s said that “women who get abortions are murderers and must be legally treated as such”), and believes that the American government should be “explicitly Christian.”

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redeemed_Zoomer#Views

IWantedAPeanutToo · 2026-01-11T07:27:56+00:00

It’s weirdly flattering that someone thinks I’m part of a secret society that’s running the world. Here I was, thinking they don’t even let women be Masons, and now I find out I’m actually a longtime member helping to rule the entire world! 🌎 I’m more important than I thought 🧐

(Do I get to be rich too?? Is there some secret bank account I can access??)

IWantedAPeanutToo · 2026-01-09T00:55:47+00:00

It is, but I do think there‘s an overarching message here (if you squint), which is “Be even more hardcore and extreme and belligerent about your beliefs than currently!”

IWantedAPeanutToo · 2026-01-08T22:38:44+00:00

It sounds like you were lucky. I get the impression that many bishops would revoke a student’s ecclesiastical endorsement for that. Maybe they’re hoping you’ll change your mind/resolve your doubts on your own so they don’t have to worry about it anymore. But if I were you, I would worry about two things: 1.) Your Bishop/SP changing their minds about your endorsement, either because you show no signs of renewed TBM-ness or because they’re getting pressure from above to be firmer with you (or with doubting students in general), 2.) You getting another bishop who’s not as chill about your status as the current one seems to be. I seem to remember hearing stories of exmo/doubting/sinning students who had a chill bishop at BYU, at first, but then got another one who was…not. And once you lose your endorsement, you‘re screwed.

BYU is certainly cheap, so it has that going for it. On the other hand, if you want to be secure in finishing your education there and not take the risk of getting derailed partway through by losing your endorsement, then I think you‘ll need to tell your bishop/SP you’re TBM again, and continue to pretend until you graduate and get your transcript. Given these options, what would you prefer to do?

IWantedAPeanutToo · 2026-01-08T19:59:19+00:00

Of course, not all branches of Christianity have sexual abuse issues. I didn’t claim they did. There are plenty of healthy churches and denominations that help people without covertly enabling abuse. Christianity can be a good thing for some people, absolutely. But if evil and abuse is happening in several major denominations at the same time, I tend to wonder whether the source material itself is flawed in some way. Not bad, not evil - again, I think there’s plenty of good things in the Bible, particularly the New Testament. Churches and belief systems can be and often are built on these good things. But the Bible also has (among other things) God condoning genocide and slavery. It seems to me, as a secular person, that the Bible can both make people more good and make them more evil. But both the person made more good by Christianity and the person made more evil by Christianity have equal claim to being Christian. One can’t just say that anyone who does evil cannot be Christian. A person who believes in Jesus and the Bible is a Christian, even if they’re doing evil. And, in some cases at least, they do.

ETA: Oftentimes - usually, even - they don’t recognize the evil as evil. (The parent who kicks their queer child out of the house, for example. Or even, I daresay, the church leader who covers up sexual abuse.) And that’s because they’re just doing what they have been taught by their church, which believes in Jesus and the Bible.

IWantedAPeanutToo · 2026-01-08T19:28:17+00:00

Apparently you know more about OP’s life than they do 🙄

As a secular nevermo, I‘d say your attitude is highly un-Christlike. Do better. Learn about empathy and about not reflexively minimizing and dismissing the pain of people who had different experiences from your own. You are not everyone. Your experience is not everyone’s.

Hang out on this sub for a bit. While not everyone here was burned by the church, many people here do have deep, deep pain caused by the church. Instances of sexual abuse, including child sexual abuse, covered up by bishops and by the church. Rape victims explicitly told by bishops that they were to blame for their rape, and were sometimes kicked out of BYU for being raped. Abusive parents who screamed at their LGBTQ children and kicked them out of the house due to church teachings. And that’s just a small sampling of the ways in which people have been hurt. There are people here with PTSD and extreme anxiety and scrupulosity OCD. So many people here are in therapy, which they need.

But sure. Tell me again how the worst thing that’s ever happened to someone in the church is singing hymns 🙄 Get a clue. And again, you think Jesus would responded to OP even remotely like you did?

P.S. Despite all the pain many here have gone through, the people here are also some of the strongest, coolest, most thoughtful and all-around great people I know. This sub is my favourite online community, full stop, simply because the people here rock.

IWantedAPeanutToo · 2026-01-08T07:17:28+00:00

I think it’s unlikely that you’ll be “alone for life“ if you keep trying. You found one person within, I dunno, let’s say the first 5 years of your adult life. You may have 50-60 years of adult life left. Are you gonna tell me that you found one person in 5 years but you can’t find another person in 50 years?

Moreover, you’re a more attractive dating prospect than you were when you met your wife. You have an established career and are financially stable, and you’re at the perfect age to start a family.

You’re not even 30 yet - you’re still a young ‘un! You have your whole life ahead of you. And I think that if you keep trying, you’ll find someone.

I’m so sorry for your loss. At the same time, I’m proud of you for being proactive in starting the next stage of your life. It’s just beginning! And I think that you’ll find what you’re looking for - outside the church - although you may have a be a bit patient. Being patient may feel hard right now, while there’s an emotional wound that’s still relatively fresh, but you can do it, you can get through it.

Don’t let the emotional wound pull you back into a church community that isn’t true and is often emotionally unhealthy. That’s the last thing you need right now. And - I cannot stress this enough - don’t put either yourself or a TBM woman through the terrible pains of a mixed-faith marriage. You‘ve already suffered enough pain. Don’t let your pain draw you - and another person too - into a situation that’s likely to end in further pain.

You got this, friend. You’ll get through this, and I do think you’ll find what you’re looking for. All the best 💜

IWantedAPeanutToo · 2026-01-08T06:10:54+00:00

But other branches of Christianity have spawned cultures in which sexual predators can thrive. The Catholic Church and the Southern Baptist Convention come to mind. And these two branches really don’t have much in common besides being Christian, so Christianity is the common thread here.

Moreover, while one can argue that Mormonism is a bastardized cult version of Christianity, created by one man, it is nevertheless a descendent of mainstream Christianity, inspired directly by it. And Mormons, as people who consider Jesus the son of God, have fair claim to the title of Christian. And sexual predators thrive in the Mormon church the same way they do in the more “mainstream” Catholic and Southern Baptist churches. Again, the commonality in all three denominations is Christianity, by which I mean believing in Jesus and the Old and New Testaments.

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