sarker
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sarker
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1d ago
Important context: the guy only had kids in the first place so he'd have cover for his pursuit of his socially useless crypto business: https://x.com/jmrphy/status/1305527478635630596
This is basically no different from women who delay having kids so they can girlboss at a fake email job. Except that since he doesn't need to actually birth the kid he can work the fake job and have kids at the same time.
sarker
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2d ago
I don't know about exponential but sales in 2024 were much bigger than sales in 2023.
https://www.bts.gov/content/gasoline-hybrid-and-electric-vehicle-sales.com
sarker
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3d ago
"we're going to run the country" implies plans of running it in the future. They may not materialize (this is trump we're talking about) but saying there's no plan to run the country is obviously wrong.
sarker
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3d ago
it doesn't appear likely the US is currently "running" Venezuela and is not planning to run Venezuela
Trump:
We are going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition.
sarker
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3d ago
I guess he could put a shirt on first.
sarker
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3d ago
I came across this extremely homo photo of Che and Fidel while trying to find out more about their Rolex habit.
https://blog.eastmanleather.com/photos/default/Young-Fidel-Castro-and-Che-Guevara-Hotel.jpg
sarker
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3d ago
Yeah but have you had None Pizza With Left Beef?
sarker
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4d ago
I don't see "internal eliminations" in that document.
Gemini suggests that the document says UHC got $290B in premium revenue and Optum Rx earned $80B and Optum health earned $64B primarily from UHC. I don't think the other Optum divisions could be considered patient care upon a cursory check.
That is a significant chunk of UHC premium revenue, so I take your point there. However, the money staying in the family like this would make UHC more likely to pay out claims than if it were going to a truly external company, and yet the common complaint is that they don't pay out enough.
sarker
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4d ago
Retail pharmaceutical spending accounts for 10% of total health spending. It's not the reason for high costs.
The same thing happens with insurance-owned clinics
What fraction of healthcare spending goes through insurance owned clinics?
sarker
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4d ago
That's certainly true. But that would incentivize insurance companies to pay out more claims.
Insurance companies are probably not sufficiently motivated to play hardball with providers on costs. At the same time, people are getting most of their premiums back even if they don't like how much care they get for those premiums.
Insurance companies are legally obligated to pay out 80% of premiums. I'm sure there are plenty of cases where they deny claims for bullshit reasons, and this is perhaps even part of their business strategy, but the big picture is that they spend the vast majority of premiums on payment for care.
It's not clear to me what "shifting profits" has to do with this, because the regulation is about how much premium revenue is spent on healthcare rather than anything to do with profits.
sarker
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4d ago
The various alternative chronologies are good for a laugh, e.g. we wuz Pechenegs n shit.
Is this the antichrist Peter Thiel keeps talking about?
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