MADD stuff @BrianMcWilliams :
The CrowdHealth guy was good, again, but I think there's a lot of stuff missing. Yes, the CON laws, etc., are a pain in the ass, but it doesn't really matter as much now. Go somewhere else. One of the big things from the pandemic is the ability to use insurance products across state lines more easily.
The Reason series gets at some of the issues he didn't mention... Why We Can't Have Nice Things Archives - Reason.com
At the same time, there's lots of stuff where it just doesn't matter anymore. My disabled mother is a prime example. She hung on using her military retiree benefits for years before she moved home to Mississippi. She was worreid about finding a military medical facility to use....just as she had since 1973. The DoD facilities have been bad at best, and she actually got was actually given a major medical plan from one of the big private insurance companies that does everything she'd had as a military spouse....for $0, and it's accepted pretty much anywhere.
Again, however, there's lots of instances where the private sector have pushed away the hospitals to offer services cheaper, and in many instances, better. I think I mentioned my periodic MRIs that are done in a strip mall. The company that does them has better equipment better than the non-profit hospitals I've used, and for a much lower cost. (I think my yearly MRIs were running something like $6K at Georgetown. They cost about a grand at the place I use....)
Here in the Beltway Swamp, pretty much all of the psychiatric practices operate off insurance. Same goes for the plastic surgeons. (They do accept insurance for things that are emergency care...) You pay the full bill, and the provider helps you get reimbursed from insurance. Same, too, for dental care. It is a little weird to go and get your teeth cleaned, and know that you're gonna fork out $80, but you'll be gettering a $55 check back in a couple of weeks.
Time limit every single law, and the regulations tracing to those laws go away, too.
On Epstein, Dershowitz has had pretty good insight. There's not a client list. Some of the grand jury testimony isn't accurate. Other indicate people who have absolutely nothing to do with the situation. The evidence is about as sound as the evidence that supported OEF.
Whar Yellowcake? Whar?
On the Iran strike, that's a good place to actually look at the polls. The vast majority of people are okay with what happened. It seems to have inflicted significant damage. I understand that the Blessed JCPOA was supposed to fix everything, but the mullahs were still doing things they didn't need to do under it. There's no reason for that sort of enrichment.
On this week's Mean Age Daydream, Brian celebrates more nations rejecting the totalitarian WHO Pandemic Treaty, even as shills for control try to scare us with the new Bird Flu. Also: Brian reviews the new, ultra-woke "Doctor Who," and Canada shows the world just what Orwellian speech control looks like.
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MADD reax
The Paramount merger thing is continued over-valuation of the VHF licenses. TV is a bit better than radio, but I know that there’s AM radio stations who aren’t selling enough spots to _pay the electric_ on their analog transmitters.
Whatever. Let them die.
The ep from Lou’s thing with the anti-feminist psych was interesting.
While I was on the train a couple of weeks ago, got into the start of Disability Pridde month.
I have two covered under the ADAs.
What the actual fuck; why is either of them a source of pride?
I have multiple sclerosis. My symptoms started around puberty, which is common. I developed some compulsions, largely, in response to actual physical problems I have.
(But this also circles back to expanding things based on disadvantage. My parents are from peak Jim Crow Mississippi, but got out after my white-enough-that-the-good-Democrats-didn’t-care-he-was-Catholic dad took the route of Lieutenant Dan….wanting to go to be an Army officer like his granda had been in WW1. My parents were the first who graduated college. So privileged…)
