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@Sara2021 @Alchemistress BURN YE EARS

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who want's a good thread

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You keep inferring that a single payer system would reduce choice when the reality is that the opposite is true. Instead of a private insurer assigning you providers based on who is in their network, every provider would be in network. In the vast majority of scenarios, the patient is two degrees separated from true freedom of choice, as options are limited by insurer networks and insurers are limited by the patient's employer. If you are concerned about a government monopoly, I would suggest that private insurers be able to compete with a single payer system in the same way that private schools compete with public schools. Removing the insurer's financial incentive and imposing a statutory obligation to cover care means that the theoretical single payer system is not picking losers in the way that a private insurer currently is.

Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader is clearly the best game of the trio.

the email system has been down for basically the past nine months, and was just fixed so those email notifications are on by default but you hadn't been getting them and had no reason to know

that's @General Iowa @Strawberry_Gashes let's see if their ears are burning

oh no it looks like it got locked too

this could easily be taken in a number of wrong ways

happy birthday mthor

it is ok, you are still my favorite daughter

baned 4 underage

awww ok seight

once I went out with a girl (though I didn't think it was a date) and I let her wear my hoodie because it was cold, and then after I dropped her off I realized she still had my hoodie so I called her and made her come back down to give me my hoodie back

oh wait, wrong person. I meant discoldmaide - that person eats shorts

@KaptKrunch is still around, mostly in the form of friday night discord stuff

yes, but what about the grimace

You asked for big black cat, feel like I was lied to.

I would argue that a single payer system with a statutory and fiduciary obligation to negotiate fair costs on behalf of the taxpayers that rely on the service would, in contrast, lower the cost of medical care in comparison to the present system wherein insurance companies and other segments of the health care industry play off both providers and patients. In contrast with eliminating insurance entirely, a single payer system allows for the pooled leverage of buying power to ensure that products and services are not only affordable, but that access to services isn't limited by individuals' direct ability to pay. The quality of care would not be negatively impacted to the extent that the profit motive of health care providers would not be negatively altered (as opposed to the profit motive of the insurance), and it would improve the quality of service and care to the extent that patients are freer to shop around from provider to provider due to the elimination of insurance networks. Tuition reform is necessary across the board, but that process also desperately requires a national discussion on what the intent of post-secondary education actually is, how or when the value of a degree should or shouldn't be tied to career tracks, and why a post secondary education is now viewed as nearly mandatory by society despite the escalating costs.