Yeah…

But the research had already split along that demographic divide.

If you’re upset about that, the logical point to raise that complaint would be with the original researchers, not people discussing it.

They won’t notice people skipping insurance that couldn’t afford to use their insurance in the first place.

Their sweet spot is people paying for it and never using it.

All Obamacare really did, is kick the van down the road by penalizing people for making the choice not to have insurance

That was a bandaid and as it gets worse people will decide the penalty is still better. If the penalty goes away, a shit ton of people’s math would change at once and it would crash the entire industry.

If it still doesn’t make sense, I don’t think I can explain it any simpler.

Half of all consumption spending in the US comes from the top 10% we are on track for that to narrow to the top 5% in my lifetime.

Ok…

But regardless of if that’s true, how does that effect the profits of the American healthcare industry besides gift shop sales?

Because I just don’t understand why you think it’s relevant or why American Healthcare corporations would care more about that than how much profit they’re making…

Quality Control is what you’re paying for…

For pretty much any type of product where quality shouldn’t matter you can buy cheap, normal, expensive, insane.

100/1000 of cheap ones might have sleight flaws.

10/1000 normal may have flaws.

1/1000 expensive

And 1/100,000 for the insanely expensive ones may have a flaw.

So even if their optimal performanceshould be the same, the more expensive it is, the less likely the manufacturer lets subpar products out to market. Often it’s vertically integrated and as batches fail they get bumped down to a different label

Do the test again, they might score the same. But do it enough, and you’ll see the expensive ones eventually pull out ahead by a very sleight amount

Yep

Even if you make it big young, if you don’t keep working you’ll never afford 40 years of health insurance.

He made at least one good investment and didn’t blow his money. But that wasn’t enough to cover a major medical condition.

The rest of us don’t stand a chance, and I fully expect to be what actually gets us socialized medicine is going to be people just throwing the towel in on major medical treatment.

If a 40 year old gets cancer, we’re going to see more and more people just start refusing the treatment.

Once that starts becoming normal (it’s already happening) people are going to stop paying insurance because they know they’ll never really use it.

That would crash the healthcare industry, and would make them “settle” for a socialized system they could still make profits.

As long as they’re making money, they’re happy. Which is why long term Obamacare just forcing people to pay for healthcare is probably a negative.

If it wasn’t for that, lots more people would have opted out of healthcare.

Instead, the explanation stems from characteristics of the household: Women members of Congress are more likely to have a high-earning spouse. As the authors put it, they’re part of a “power couple.” Men members tend to come from very different households – ones in which their wives “take on flexible, lower-paying work and a disproportionate share of household responsibilities.” Women who want to run for Congress are therefore more likely to either not have childcare responsibilities or have the wealth to hire others to help with childcare.

I don’t think that they have even more wealthier spouses…

But if I was doing the research I would have went thru the tiny extra bit of trouble to treat it properly as a confounding variable and quantified it…

What’s more likely is that nothing about human variation is binary, and while it is mostly men attracted to personal wealth and power. But of women, if they’re likely to be attracted to the personal power if office, they’re also more likely to want their own personal wealth too.

That and it being more difficult for women to be elected, means the ones that do make it are more likely to be extra wealthy to compete with men. The outliers for wealth are the ones who got into politics to help others, and as such don’t prioritize personal wealth. They had other motivationa to run for office. I wouldnt be surprised if all the bottom net worth female politicians were solidly progressive.

It’s not as rare as people keep acting…

He was on a hit TV show 20 years ago, but it was his breakout so he probably got no residuals

He wasn’t broke, he was a landlord that made like 12k/month off rent. But if his net worth was in the millions it was probably just like two LA houses that most likely still had mortgages. If you’re going off websites it’s probably reported wrong.

Like it’s applicable to everyone because insurance shouldn’t be tied to employment now that wages aren’t capped due to WW2 anymore, but it’s not like he was the 1% either. You gotta be well over 10 million for that.

Which should make us realize how bad wealth inequality has gotten. To the actual oligarchs Dawson and the rest of us are the same.

All the good parts will shut down…

ICE and CBP got that 75 billion no strings from BBB already.

Still better than everything else federal shutdown, but specifics matter. This won’t slow ice at all

America did pretty alright for the 225 years we didn’t have a DHS…

Given that it’s literally in the dictionary

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unicorns

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Sasquatch

Affluenza isn’t real, it’s just an excuse the wealthy made up for not thinking the rest of us are still the same species.

I have no idea what you think it means from this post tho

Disapproval rating rolled over like an old odometer, and now just shows two sideways zeros…

They didn’t design the system for this low of numbers…

/S

It’s a dangerous way to be a human…

Like, you’re coasting on “nothing catastrophic has happened to me yet”

And eventually, you’re gonna get blindsided by something big.

This like saying if Faux News and Newsmax said trump is great, he’s gotta be great…

Like, why is your problem with me and not the person who’s “sources” are literally a list of right wing UK tabloids that literally lie and misrepresent this shit

Faux and Newsmax said immigrants were eating puppies in America, is that true?

I don’t even want to ask you about Bat Boy or Samsquantchs

I think you need to check places that aren’t righwing tabloids…

The Daily Express is a British right-wing tabloid newspaper that routinely utilizes sensational headlines such as this: NATO TERRIFIED: Trump may ‘seriously undermine’ alliance in Putin meeting – world on ALERT. Articles are typically written by journalists or correspondents and are reasonably sourced to credible information. However, like many tabloids, the Daily Express also publishes conspiracy and pseudoscience articles such as these: ‘Portal OPENS’ above New Jersey with some fearing it’s a sign of PLANET X and Could this strange corpse be the world’s first proof aliens have visited Earth?

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-express/

Suuuuuuuure it is buddy

The Daily Mail is a known supporter of the Conservatives. They are also one of the pro-Brexit tabloids. According to a Reuters article, the Daily Mail published a controversial headline in response to a Brexit Court ruling criticizing the judges by branding them as ‘enemies of the people.’ According to CNBC, the Daily Mail has also been criticized by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales for publishing fake news articles and “hyped up” headlines and “mastered the art of running stories that aren’t true.” Further, CNBC reported that DMG media responded by saying, “DailyMail.com is the very antithesis of click-bait and hype headlines. We just tell stories better than anyone else.”

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-mail/

Neoliberals only have a problem with authoritarianism when they’re not in control.

They don’t want to destroy the ring like Gandalf, they want to hide in a hole like Smeagol until they learn to use it.

“Baal” just means “lord” in another language.

So most likelyit’s like arguing whether God, Allah, or Yahewah is the bestest…

They’re all talking about the same thing, just speaking different languages.

All that being said, this is a picture from lemmy.ml, it’s almost definitely bullshit.