Most Americans can't stop wolfing down quarter pounders and coca cola, dont tell me their medical needs are my responsibility and dont pretend you give a ish about peoples health

44 minutes ago, Mike31mt said:

Most Americans can't stop wolfing down quarter pounders and coca cola, dont tell me their medical needs are my responsibility and dont pretend you give a ish about peoples health

I care about my health. You soft teeth mf'ers I couldn't care less about.

I would smash my head in the sand and not care about anyone else either, but when my insurance premiums are jumping about 10% a year to pay for rising healthcare costs, which we’re told is to compensate for uninsured, defaulted medical bills… It’s affecting my pocket book even when I don’t get sick or injured.

Americans are not as healthy as they should be, but that doesn't even come close to explaining the disparities in healthcare costs between the US and comparable first world nations. 

Obesity in the UK is high as well. Alcohol consumption per capita is significantly higher in Germany, Ireland, and Spain. Italians still smoke like chimneys. 

None spend nearly as much on healthcare as we do here.

A major problem is and has always been artificially constrained supply of healthcare providers and services. And the relatively market driven system we have means services offered often bias towards the most profitable not necessarily those with the best outcomes. Exacerbating all this is lack of will for tort reform, which drives up costs by incentivizing a more liberal deployment of diagnostic services than is sensible out of fear of litigation if something is missed.

Artificially constrained supply short circuits any possibility that the market might reach a sensible equilibrium. And with demand for healthcare services, especially those around emergency situations, being static, I'm incredibly skeptical that a pure market based approach makes any sense if the goal is maximizing positive outcomes for the most people. 

11 hours ago, MidMoFo said:

I would smash my head in the sand and not care about anyone else either, but when my insurance premiums are jumping about 10% a year to pay for rising healthcare costs, which we’re told is to compensate for uninsured, defaulted medical bills… It’s affecting my pocket book even when I don’t get sick or injured.

Think about those illegal aliens your helping out. Stop being so selfish.

kkz and the gang definitely do not understand the words 

On 9/9/2022 at 12:50 PM, Gannan said:

It can’t be stated enough times, we are witnesses to an economic miracle. The Biden economic miracle keeps on rolling. My 401k is back up!

Mine is still down compared to a year ago but trending back in the right direction!  

On 9/9/2022 at 3:43 PM, Kz! said:

Imagine how retarded you have to be to support dems lmao

 

Your level of **** is way beyond anything measurable.  

12 hours ago, lynched1 said:

Think about those illegal aliens your helping out. Stop being so selfish.

Biden’s new IRS agents are going to find out who’s paying them cash under table. If the illegal cash work dries up, that will change also.

4 hours ago, MidMoFo said:

Biden’s new IRS agents are going to find out who’s paying them cash under table. If the illegal cash work dries up, that will change also.

Biden substancially goes after employers that hire illegals I'll give him credit for it.

Hopefully things won't go from bad to worse.  No one is really talking about this.  If a strike happens, it will be bad.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/12/large-rail-labor-unions-move-closer-to-a-strike.html

Biden delivers again!

He personally called into rail workers negotiations to avert a strike.

4 minutes ago, toolg said:

He personally called into rail workers negotiations to avert a strike

It’s going to cost rail companies. 
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11214999/Biden-says-tentative-deal-reached-avert-devastating-rail-strikes.html

Some people are saying Biden is the best president negotiator ever. 

Pretty damn impressive if he brokers that deal.

Some of the stupid **** our "government" allows to go on.

Starting in 2015, a Chinese real estate development company called China Oceanwide Holdings began buying land on Oahu in the Hawaii Islands just ten miles west of the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor.

1 hour ago, lynched1 said:

Some of the stupid **** our "government" allows to go on.

Starting in 2015, a Chinese real estate development company called China Oceanwide Holdings began buying land on Oahu in the Hawaii Islands just ten miles west of the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor.

I was told that if government starts interfering with private industry, we get the communism 

2 hours ago, Gannan said:

I was told that if government starts interfering with private industry, we get the communism 

Rule #1

You don't let foreign countries (particularly adversaries) own property. Especially near your military bases.

Law Will Install Kill Switches In All New Cars (msn.com)

It gets even better: Barr points out that the bill, which has been signed into law by President Biden, states that the kill switch, which is referred to as a safety device, must "passively monitor the performance of a driver of a motor vehicle to accurately identify whether that driver may be impaired.”

But wait, there’s more. This kill switch "safety” system would be open, or in other words there would be a backdoor. That would allow police or other government authorities to access it whenever. Would they need a warrant to do that? Likely not. Even better, hackers could access the backdoor and shut down your vehicle.

 

I, for one, am utterly shocked that the self-admitted scumbag drunk driver is shaking in his boots about laws that might punish drunk drivers.

 

None of the technologies currently in development would notify law enforcement of the data collected inside vehicles or give government agencies remote control of vehicles, according to Jeffrey Michael, a researcher at Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Injury Research and Policy.

 

"I’ve been associated with this technology since the beginning of its development and it has always been viewed as a prevention device rather than an enforcement device,” Michael said. He added that his interpretation of the law was that it has "nothing to do with giving law enforcement access to a kill switch.”

 

Robert Strassburger, president and CEO of the Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety, is involved in a public-private partnership with NHTSA to develop an alcohol detection system for vehicles. He said the partnership agreement includes a requirement to build security measures that would prevent third parties from accessing any data collected by the technology.

 

Strassburger said his team is considering systems that could warn an impaired driver, prevent an impaired driver from moving the vehicle, or reduce the speed of the vehicle and get it safely home. He said the term "kill switch” is hyperbole, since none of the options being considered would include the risky move of lurching a fast-moving vehicle to an abrupt stop

https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-402773429497

4 hours ago, lynched1 said:

Law Will Install Kill Switches In All New Cars (msn.com)

It gets even better: Barr points out that the bill, which has been signed into law by President Biden, states that the kill switch, which is referred to as a safety device, must "passively monitor the performance of a driver of a motor vehicle to accurately identify whether that driver may be impaired.”

But wait, there’s more. This kill switch "safety” system would be open, or in other words there would be a backdoor. That would allow police or other government authorities to access it whenever. Would they need a warrant to do that? Likely not. Even better, hackers could access the backdoor and shut down your vehicle.

 

Good, someone needs to protect the families of four from retards like you that think driving drunk is something cool to brag about

4 hours ago, Boogyman said:

Good, someone needs to protect the families of four from retards like you that think driving drunk is something cool to brag about

I'm sure he "drives better drunk than most drivers do sober"

7 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

I'm sure he "drives better drunk than most drivers do sober"

He has said similar on this board. Putting others at risk for no reason, on purpose? Scumbag.

6 hours ago, Boogyman said:

Good, someone needs to protect the families of four from retards like you that think driving drunk is something cool to brag about

Told you that you weren't going anywhere.