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Captainant

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  1. You misunderstand me - you can't get an affordable doctor's appointment without insurance, and paying out of pocket is exorbitantly expensive thanks to insurance inflating the prices too. Sure, I'll make an appointment for my 7mo daughter, go get a 15 minute look over by the doctor and a flu shot. Somehow the EOB says that cost nearly $4000 (our responsibility was $20). How the fuck is a regular Joe supposed to afford that?
  2. I've been in tech for 10 years now, and the teams I have been on were/are pretty diverse. There's not really a majority demographic, aside from tech nerd. In the team I'm on right now, it is pretty much a rainbow of backgrounds. Folks from Columbia, Mexico, India, Pakistan, Singapore, Norway, Houston, etc etc. And yes we definitely have it better than the vast majority of Americans. I have a job that respects my time and gives me opportunities for growth. What a fantastic luxury! No, she said she's not gonna give them the benefit of the doubt. And you replied saying "I'm not defending them BUUUUUT they've got a weally WEALLY hard road ahead" as if that's not just the baseline American experience. Yeah most Americans live an impoverished existence. It's celebrated every quarter when the line goes up while wages stagnate even further. But again - that's been the deal for decades. What's with the scales falling from your eyes all of a sudden?
  3. And my central point is that financializing healthcare embeds incentives like this that push patients and care below shareholder returns. Health insurance shouldn't exist. Everyone gets sick and needs healthcare. Because of insurance companies, you can't just walk into a doctor's office. Their rates are absurd, and driven by insurance medical coding. A doctor's goal should not be to extract money from sick people who came to them for help. And yet, that's our system. Capital matters more than people.
  4. I notice that you're calling out the "healthcare industry", not "healthcare provders". Yeah big pharma in the healthcare industry is certainly making sure nobody can afford anything and making a bundle off it. And nursing homes are robbing our grandparents blind while paying for minimum wage nurses that little to no, or negligent care. It's not "inefficiency" - it's by design.
  5. So, I really don't understand your insistence that this is unique to white people. Your hypothetical of a bunch of senior support staff being better of than most everyone else applies unilaterally, not just to white people. Yeah, the economy is rigged against wage earners. Regan and trickle down out front should have told ya. What makes the """young white man""" experience so set apart from everyone else that you single them out so fervently? No shit they don't have much of a glorious future to look forward to. Nobody does, unless you're already in the ownership caste. Welcome to America
  6. It always cracks me up to read common wisdom like the above, and juxtapose it with the other common "wisdom of the free market" trope.
  7. The money isn't going to doctors and medical care. It goes first to the insurance companies and then they decide how much the doctor should get. Maybe, just maybe, we don't need to financialize every single aspect of our lives? Our current system is capitalism run amok. An insurance executive is deciding what care Americans receive, not their doctor. The only way around that is to be in the wealthy ownership/executive class
  8. Brother, I don't know what fucking point you're trying to make here. It sounds like you're describing the average 20 something. Life ain't easy. It doesn't mean you should resort to fascism because you're not getting the same handout your daddy got. Or are you arguing that their family and culture failed white people generally? Are you trying to redefine the word "impoverished" to not mean someone in poverty?
  9. No, Bozo pretty clearly stated that young white men have it harder than others and are "impoverished". Nothing to do with wealth inequality in the words he wrote, so I'm not sure why you're trying the southern strategy line on me of "it's not race, it's economics!"
  10. Man, if you're raising boys I hope you're not feeding them this victim poor me bullshit. Young white men don't have it harder than anyone else - they've simply got dealt the same hand as everyone else. If that's too tough for them, maybe they should get some bootstraps and pull on em. That's as much help as anyone outside the executive class gets. Like, what the fuck? White people have it hard in America? That's fucking news to me. Poor people have it hard. Young white men are not used to being more poor than not, and they're finding out they have to try in this world to move out from mom and dad's. Impoverished existence? Wow lol.
  11. Crazy story. The attacker is an atheist Saudi that was attacking the Christmas market in protest of the "Islamism of Europe" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20241221-suspect-behind-german-christmas-market-attack-islamophobic-authorities-say
  12. He should hire an OC he'll listen to. He's making bad play calls
  13. Gibson making some POWER plays. That's an awesome first down, even if the spot is shit
  14. I will take those DPIs all day
  15. Good lord our defense is gassed. Sark fucked em with the short offensive possessions
  16. It's the Tapatalk barbarians
  17. Well, it may be enough for PornU on new years
  18. Yuck I guess I'll take 3, Burt you better not fuck us
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