Huh. That’s interesting …… 2 for 1 deal!

Business people should not be celebrities, so people should only listen as it pertains to their company or their industry.

Wealthy donors are clearly one of the causes of our current mess and need to be fixed

Really? But he was such a normal decent person? I assumed he was liberal or progressive or socialist because he valued empathy and niceness. He did not look down on people for their race, class, religion or abilities. He valued education. He genuinely cared for people.

The lesson I take from this is republicans used to not be sociopaths

I’m not claiming that’s a good thing but I’m fine with my medical provider being incented to provide proper care and to get everything they deserve from my insurance. I would not be fine with them being incented to provide only the care I can afford right now or being incented to maximize how much I’m stuck paying

And get this, revolutionary idea …. That single giant risk pool does not need to be a profit taker, reducing costs further

I’m still rooting for Danish healthcare! I don’t know anything about it, nor do I live in California but I’d welcome our new overlords

I get what you’re saying and completely agree the current situation works for no one, but covering routine care is important. Sure, people probably could pay for routine care directly and it would be cheaper but all too many won’t. When it turns into a serious problem that could have been prevented, it’s not just their health affected but cost to the insurer and employer.

I’m pretty sure that 100% coverage of routine care has been proven cheaper than letting the person decide

They do, but of course it depends on your company offering it.

The combination of “high deductible health plan” (cover everything after $x,000) and a “health savings account” (set aside pretax money, accumulate and invest) really seem like a solid improvement over everything else. If your company offers it. If you can afford to keep at least the full annual deduction in an HSA

That being said I’ve never been able to take advantage so I could easily be wrong. I currently pay for “old fashioned insurance” which really is the way your parents remember it,covers everything, low deductible and copay no out of network nonsense, but oh so expensive. Y’all with crappy insurance can at least applaud not paying premiums I’m stuck with

I’m pretty sure the ACA included at least some protection against that, although I don’t know if the current administration repealed that

Horrible place for a conflict of interest

Sure, you can be the first streamer targeting them. Your viewer count might be a little low ……

Every OP is exotic to someone. Yah gotta choose your audience

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door

Oh man, and I just finished a pbj. Now I’m feeling sad

Protesters also don’t deserve to be executed

I don’t get this, osteoporosis is one of the best known medical conditions that mostly affect women. Who dismisses it as “aging”?

I’ve seen some with impossible cook times but I assume that’s just different ingredient expectations or something.

For example I want to look up a time and temperature to cook chicken breasts but the time is impossibly short. At that temperature it may take 2-3x the time. Are we already at the point of ai recipes with unnoticeable flaws or do “chicken breasts” mean something very different in different places? Or maybe it’s a flawed conversion from metric?

It’s kind of like music. I used to have a collection of cookbooks to do exactly that, just like I used to have a collection of music in various formats as technology changes. But it’s too limiting. It can never compare to a digital search among all the world’s recipes/music.

My approach was to buy a recipe manager. I generally search online to find something new that looks interesting. But then I import it into my recipe manager so I can use it without all the life story, the excessive ads, the really annoying screen redraws to show yet more ads, the popped to display additional ads or the inline partial recipes that are more ads in disguise

I’ll second that but also depends on the chili

• if I make chili, it’s intensely flavored and spicy. Ground turkey is oddly bland so doesn’t really work
• if my ex makes chili, it’s more of a mild bean and vegetable stew and ground turkey goes well with the other mild flavors

The electrician is an easy choice in this case. I do have knowledge and experience without household electric but recognize this as a project I wouldn’t complete in reasonable time and quality.

Notably my garage has no electric except the light and the EV charger, and it would also be useful to have an outlet. I’ll at least get a quote for a small subpanel to give me more future options