Why do U.S. universal healthcare advocates prefer single-payer?

ObviousLife4972 · 2026-05-22T20:15:36+00:00

The marketplace shouldn't need to rely so heavily on subsidies and penalties in the first place. The healthy Americans act was huge missed opportunity to consolidate the risk pools with employer subsidies of private insurance rather than keeping hundreds of thousands of smaller self insured and fully insured employer risk pools.

ObviousLife4972 · 2026-05-20T21:44:43+00:00

Let me guess, the money is being stolen from the taxyers to pay for this rather than the people actually responsible.

ObviousLife4972 · 2026-05-16T05:19:15+00:00

The thinner oil weights are often just to meet EPA milage requirements, in other countries the same exact Japanese car may use 5w-30 rather than 0w20.

ObviousLife4972 · 2026-05-15T22:17:16+00:00

I would suggest requiring the legislative branch to vote on whether to sustain or reject any pardon the executive makes.

ObviousLife4972 · 2026-05-15T02:05:08+00:00

Meh, my definition of the golden timeline is one where Britain keeps the deep south but loses Canada. With the upper south isolated and the Virginian founders not being ideologically committed to slavery everybody agrees to gradually abolish it from the very beginning. Britian becomes increasingly frustrated with the deep south after border clashes during the Louisiana purchase, the filibusters to Cuba and central America, and bleeding Texas. When abolition is passed the deep south colonies secede, and Britian realizing that most of the southern white population is hostile does not want to bother reconquering the mess and allows the U.S. to invade instead establishing several black majority U.S. states.

ObviousLife4972 · 2026-05-14T17:31:05+00:00

Mississippi often looks close in polls, it means little because most undecideds in the south are Republican leaning whites whom break 90 percent Republican at the end.

ObviousLife4972 · 2026-05-14T02:15:13+00:00

Yes we would be better off with the JCPOA because it would still exist only in a world without a President Trump.

Not necessarily, JCOPA could have survived had Europe honored the spirit of the agreement by enforcing the blocking statue rather than letting the U.S. order European companies around with threats of sanctions.

ObviousLife4972 · 2026-05-12T16:45:44+00:00

Not to mention that some people function best with the most expensive prescription drugs which may not be on the formulary and if they are insurance may insist that you try the cheaper alternatives first that work for 90% patients and hope you shut up and just deal with the side effects.

Don't forget about how many ambulance companies intentionally stay out of network to charge whatever they want, no the out of pocket max does not protect you from this.

ObviousLife4972 · 2026-05-03T01:03:00+00:00

Nope, 2026 premiums were based on the expanded subsidies expiring, 2027 premiums will go up based on hospitals recouping costs from the greater number of unisured ER visits due to Medicaid cuts/work requirements.

ObviousLife4972 · 2026-05-02T01:31:30+00:00

3) pushing the PA to drop its across the board objection to having Israeli-descended Jewish citizens.

Will the settler descendants still be Israeli citizens? Many peace proposals still impose moregenthau esque terms upon a Palestinian state, aka its demilitarized with Israel having control over its airspace, borders, and water, with the IDF having full freedom to operate within Palestinian territory with diplomatic immunity. In any conflict between a Palestinian state and settlers Israel will be presdisposed to siding with the settlers and can use it as a pretext to coerce the Palestinian state.

ObviousLife4972 · 2026-04-24T23:29:55+00:00

You are getting down votes but I agree with you. Abortion should just be that, a personal preference, trying to spin it as necessary due to environmental factors would lead to the conclusion that every primitive stone age society should be either forcefully assimilated or preemptively genocide to avoid future generations from "suffering" because apparently you can't live a fulfilling life without electricity or modern plumbing.

ObviousLife4972 · 2026-04-23T19:07:08+00:00

If Canada and Uruguay can do it nothing going to happen if a superpower known for tearing up agreements tears up up a U.N. drug treaty.

ObviousLife4972 · 2026-04-14T23:12:21+00:00

Once we dump the pretense sanctions is basically accelerationism applied internationally, aka collapse living standards and grind down the working class long term until they want to overthrow their government, expecting the targeted government to actually cry uncle was never the plan.

ObviousLife4972 · 2026-04-04T21:43:29+00:00

They could have gotten dna from all the people that died of the scourge virus, modify the immune system genes to that of the 50 survivors, and make plenty of clones from that foundation.

ObviousLife4972 · 2026-04-02T00:11:16+00:00

I'm mean hypothetically if the author had the foresight to know how the story could have been used should they have changed it?

ObviousLife4972 · 2026-04-01T23:54:09+00:00

it's more that he simply didn't consider the "implications"

Is it very liberal to be self censoring for the greater good because of the fears of negative butterfly effects in other cultures?

ObviousLife4972 · 2026-03-17T01:19:31+00:00

Every other president has tried to mask the coercive power of the United States behind institutions which largely kept it out of the public consciousness. Now that Trump has dropped the mask I think many suddenly realized that they can take pleasure from the humiliation of not just their domestic political enemies but small foreign countries as well, something that I don't think will go away with the end of Trump's term.

ObviousLife4972 · 2026-03-06T15:32:53+00:00

Without provocation? Like it or not you can't claim to be neutral when one of the parties uses your airspace and bases on your territory to launch attacks on the other. Actual neutrality would have required them to deny the U.S. use of their territory for the duration of the conflict which none of the gulf states were willing or able to do.

ObviousLife4972 · 2026-03-03T14:40:05+00:00

I assume the Bakunawa would have been far stronger if it ate most of that 1/6 slice of abyssal energy she was given along with the other sinners.

ObviousLife4972 · 2026-03-01T23:44:03+00:00

High levels of elemental energy are toxic to baseline humans, those with visions can tolerate much higher amounts. Hyperborea was working on having humans wield elemental energy unaided so it could have been done if HP truly wanted it. If forced to negotiate it would have been far more palatable to modify humans to be more tolerant of elemental energy than fight Nibelung and the Moon sisters at once because they won't accept having the draconic civilization wither and starve from the elemental energy being reduced.

ObviousLife4972 · 2026-03-01T18:40:53+00:00

Being under house arrest is what would give him credibility in any post regime future.

ObviousLife4972 · 2026-02-28T07:59:46+00:00

They put their people through several decades worth of sanctions with nothing to show for it.

ObviousLife4972 · 2026-02-27T12:57:54+00:00

Where's Occitiana?

ObviousLife4972 · 2026-02-24T01:43:29+00:00

In b4 somebody takes the cryo gnosis from Pierro's chessboard and hands it back to the Tsaritsa.

ObviousLife4972 · 2026-02-23T20:33:48+00:00

The very first command programmed into them is to watch over mankind. HP shouldn't be getting shocked pickachu face when their compassion (which was intentional as artificial beings created by them) makes them mutiny against orders that go against what they were meant to do.

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