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Yeah because our federal government is some grand example of honesty and good governance.
The VA isn't a great thing to compare medicare-for-all to. The VA's entire customer base has afflictions you just don't see in the general public.

I'd compare M4A to Medicare/Medicaid, if you look at patient surveys they are much happier in general than people who have to deal with insurance companies.
I wonder how much of that is a networking effect. If you met an Iranian woman outside of Iran, the chances they had the money to travel or have a connected family is higher.

I think the government nets capture lots of people. Anyone who is trying to avoid it can but those groups tend to be middle class or higher. So maybe instead of 99% it's like 51%?
Anybody want to track down the year of Pope's translation?
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> your chances of them just deciding not to pay are low

What's your data on that? The US government says that private insurers deny 20% of claims.

Last year my insurer tried to say that it was medically unnecessary to get an MRI after I'd had a tumor removed from my brain. You see, I'd also had an MRI before the surgery and according to the quack on the insurance company payroll who "reviewed my case" more than 1 MRI in a year just can't be justified.

Your chances that an American health insurance firm will deny your claim, or at least attempt to, are very high. Virtually all of the staff at these firms are dedicated to not paying claims.
Check out non-ACA-qualified insurance.

Mine is cheap, low-deductible, and covers catastrophic events. For working numbers, its $415 per month, $2500 deductible and per person/year maximum out of pocket, $5000 for the family. I pay a bit more to get a larger provider network. I had a plan a couple years ago that was < $200/month, $1500/$3000 maximum OOP, but we had to drive across town for an in-network provider.

These kinds of plans were common (and cheaper) prior to the ACA. The biggest change is that the post-ACA plans have smaller provider networks, where before, they were similar to employer-provided benefits.

The biggest "downside" is it is absolutely, no exceptions, cash payments until you hit the yearly deductible. Even then, the negotiated rates for procedures are sometimes cheaper with insurance, sometimes not. So, I had to get a head MRI late last year. Doc wrote a script for a local hospital that would take my insurance, which was a $3K procedure. I called up a local imaging company, it was $615 cash. A little bit of price shopping saved me $1800 ($2500 OOP - $615 or so).

US citizens forgot that a lot of private insurance was really quite good compared to post-ACA plans, and as long as you get "illegal" insurance, it still can be.
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>On paper it may seem to insure you against catastrophic loss, that is, if the insurance company can't find a way to deny your claim for one reason or another. You can surely bet they will be trying.

The most common method of denying claims was that it was a preexisting condition, something that ACA prevents them from doing. The vast majority of people who have health insurance will be covered in event of a catastrophic illness. It's definitely more than just "on paper".
I believe I'm correct when I say that there are not protections from incurring excessive out of network fees that insurance won't pay even if you're covered.

As in, you go to the hospital but the doctors that work your case aren't part of your insurance network, so you're given a bill that you're responsible for and your insurance won't pay.

Given that heart attacks can cost up to nearly $1 million to treat[1], and you can't always choose which hospital you're sent to or which doctors treat you, that's a concern.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-much-would-a-heart-attack-c...
The state of policing in the UK took a considerable amount of work.

https://theconversation.com/northern-irelands-police-transfo...
So make the sideload toggle like Android's bootloader--when you toggle it, wipe user data. Anyone who wants to side load will have to reinstall all their apps. There's other annoying things you can do too: require the user to wait for a delayed email; require unlocking through a website; require one if the above actions to be performed to toggle the state, and again for each side-load install (for example, require waiting for a 5 minute delayed prompt to turn on sideloading, and a 30-second delay for installing). If the side-loaded app requires sensitive permissions, only save them for a limited amount of time (ie, if it asks for access to your contacts, re-request every 2 weeks, or on every update). Pop up a long EULA-style description that needs to be scrolled to the bottom to continue.

There's dozens of ways to make doing things extremely inconvenient, to the point that people won't do them without a good reason, without being _overly_ bothersome to those that do want it. (Unless you're installing/updating dozens of side-loaded apps simultaneously, a delayed prompt shouldn't bother you much)
This is known as the expression problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_problem
Is this actually a thing, joining the military to get healthcare?
For the curious: a more regional[1] form of this petty corruption in the NYC area is placard abuse[2]. It's pretty common to see cars with these parked in front of hydrants, in bike lanes, etc, being completely ignored by the police.

[1]: As far as I know, being a lifelong New Yorker.

[2]: https://twitter.com/placardabuse
Ok, we've depersonalized the title above.
I love Fitzgerald's translations! I find Lattimore utterly dull and lacking in poetry; Fitzgerald is readable and fun, in my view.

Each to their own, of course, but I wanted to provide a counterpoint to anyone out there deciding on a translation to read.
> I feel like people would feel so much more flexible not having that tied to employment.

This should be a bi-partisan issue since both sides claim to love "small business."

Health insurance is unaffordable for any small business and prevents many from striking out on their own.

It's also a hidden expense that many never realize they have.

If you looked at my "out of my bank account" spending, I could spend probably 5-10 years unemployed and be fine.

Add in the extra $20-30k/yr for health insurance premiums and that drops down to maybe two years if I was lucky.
Police could also put certain license plates into a database that means they don't have to pay tolls. https://www.ocregister.com/2009/11/12/special-license-plates...

See also the CHP 11-99 Foundation license plate frame which djmobley posted about in this thread.
Hahaha, I love it. They literally formalized the old boys' network.
The involuntary treatment by out of network providers and them being able to charge you whatever they feel like definitely needs to be outlawed.
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80K/household in the midwest minimum

if you live on one of the coasts you're on the inside of the gated communities or youre a peasant
Why do you think Canada and Japan and England and Australia can do so much better? We (Americans) debate universal care like it's some radical idea. We pretend that there aren't successful implementations with different configurations all over the world.
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If you are privileged with a good job and good coverage, it’s far better to be in the system we have now. Your chances of incurring huge costs are relatively low and you’re saving tens of thousands of dollars by not paying to benefit others. Also if you need to get a specific treatment you don’t need to go through a government bureaucracy, you just pay for the treatment or insurance might cover part of it.

Of course there are significant downsides if you aren’t privileged or if you care about other people. If you have a kid that is born with diabetes for example it can be a huge unnecessary cost, but that’s probably due to drug pricing in America which is a whole other topic.

My point is it isn’t fair to say that the current system is universally bad for everyone. But I personally think we would all be better off as a society if everyone had access to good medical care without the risk of financial ruin.
The earliest AVRs (the family of MCUs used in Arduino) had no RAM either, only 32 8 bit regs. One of these was AT90S1200. AFAIK it had higher max clock frequency then AT90S2313, the one with SRAM.
Ridiculous claim. There are much better odds of fixing health care with Biden and democrats in power. The progressive dems are pro universal healthcare and the moderates will expand or at least maintain ACA.
>These kinds of plans were common (and cheaper) prior to the ACA.

They weren't comparable because before the ACA these plans almost exclusively had lifetime and yearly coverage limits, and they could raise your premiums to affordable levels the next year if you actually developed a long term serious illness. If you ended up with cancer, a plan like you're talking about would have dropped you like a hot potato after they blew through your $100k a year coverage limit.
By comparison: yes, for the most part, the federal government is such an example. It's by no means perfect but, yeah, for the most part it works pretty well and relatively honestly. Always room for improvement--but the critical difference is that, when it is not, there are ways to expose the need for improvement and to push change that will not, full stop, ever even start at local and even state levels.

And even were it not: the unquestioned (and, tbh, often profoundly racist when not merely corrupt) localized governmental structures in question are still wrong, so attempting to sandbag criticism of them by pointing at the federal government, regardless of its status, smells a mite bit fishy.
If curious see also

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18790421

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11671985
I'm "self-employed", ie employed by the company that I own, and so I have to shoulder the entirety of health insurance cost for my family of 4. Because I'm the only FT employee, we aren't eligible for "business/small group" health plans; which means we either have to buy private health insurance (often not meeting ACA Essential Coverage requirements) and/or purchase health insurance from the 'health exchange' marketplace administered by our state.

The first year, we could actually purchase decent coverage and while it was expensive, it was a solid PPO plan. The past two years however, there isn't even a single PPO plan offered on the exchange in my state -- not one -- I don't even think there were any "Platinum" coverages offered. The end result is that we pay essentially a mortgage-size payment each month and in exchange we get relatively abysmal coverage.

Worse yet? It seems they categorically deny ~75% of claims, which generally means we have to appeal & fight them on it (our success rate is high but it's time-consuming); if it's testing/labs that need done, we also have to front the cash out of pocket to avoid delaying diagnosis & any potentially needed treatment. Often that means $800+ out of pocket PLUS a 4-8 hour time investment over a 3-4 month span in order to try to recoup that money -- all the while, we're of course paying the absurd premiums each month.

Insurance & the financial aspect of healthcare is so completely broken in the US that it's sickening. I believe the problem is so severe that it's really hurting our country's economy and is incredibly stifling for individuals & small businesses. I wish I knew how to fix it. :(
+1 The only good reason to use cpu limits I can think of is if you sell metered compute and run it on k8s. I’d be curious to know if anyone actually does this though
Same, as a permalink. I'll bookmark the permalink then run it through archive.org using a simple addons of mine, in case HN goes down I will have an archive backup.
how does this work in practice ?

is there some kind of signature you can use to ascertain that the code you have is what's actually on the device ?

Is it possible to do the same for the SIM (as I understand it, it is its own microsystem and intelligence companies have already _at least_ attempted to insert their code in there) ?

what about play services or its equivalent ? These are often closed source and have lots of system permissions (since they handle lots of capabilities, they need a broad access).

edit : for clarity, I don't think it is a bad idea, I just wonder how doable it is.
Yeah people making poverty wages qualify for subsidized insurance in some (all?) states. It's cheaper for the state than having them use the ER for everything.
More between the lines: Half of Americans know they're under-insured and haven't done/can't do anything about it.

A deeper cut is that some Americans are just rolling the dice, they could afford better insurance but choose not to, even though after they got hit with a huge bill they would probably say something like, "in hindsight I probably should have paid the higher premiums for better coverage and could have taken a vacation to Missouri instead of Europe."

But there are also a lot of Americans that may not be able to afford higher premiums, even if they were better at budgeting.

And then politicians pick and choose which group of people they use as examples when talking about the healthcare system, depending on their goals/party. The truth is that both of the previously mentioned groups exist and get screwed if they have an emergency. It's a easier to say "tough luck" to the first group that was rolling the dice, but I would love to see actual change in the healthcare system.

I did my dissertation research using insurance claims data, so I've seen the actual amount of money that's changing hands and it's ridiculous. Even if normal people were able to get the negotiated rates that the insurance companies get, most families could not afford a surgery and week long hospital stay. I don't know exactly what the solution is, but I think one of the main roadblocks is that there are some people making a bunch of money and they are quite happy with the way everything works right now.
4. If they previously had a 60Hz monitor, and upgraded to 120Hz or better.

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ACA is just a super expensive catastrophic insurance plan.

I have to budget $2k/month for premiums and about $10k a year for unexpected visits to urgent care or the ER. So about $24k+$10k = $34k a year in after tax income. This doesn't include dental. That is another $4k to $8k/yearly depending on orthodontic treatment.

For example this year, an ER visit is going to cost $7k after insurance. Last year a couple of urgent care visits cost $1k each after insurance.

Even worse, in my market the number of insurers has dropped every year. A competitive "market" doesn't really exist.

The ACA needed a parallel side to the legislation that aggressively attacked medical price inflation: taking on medical liability insurance reform, forcing price transparency across the entire medical system, fixing in-network vs out-network blackholes, etc.

The ACA did nothing to fix the cost of medical care.
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I'm 55 now. Medicare will definitely be a big help a decade from now, but I'll still be carrying the full cost until then and some kind of supplementation after that. It's OK, I'm not complaining about my own lot, but if it's a concern for me in the 1% then it's a true burden to others.
I'd actually assume one favourite to be a misclick.
Heck, if you're wealthy enough, and get pulled over drunk, tell then you're friends with someone at the department. The cop will make a few phone calls, and boom, you get chauffeured home by the cops for free.
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Yes, he said the only thing he really noticed is that his build time dropped by a double digit percent but not a triple digit percent. He'd bought top of the line specs each time and had maxed out the ram and processor bin.
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Not necessarily. Right now, hospitals/doctors/etc can tell insurance companies to pound sand if they aren't willing to pay much. If there is only one insurance company, they are beholden to it and have to negotiate from a position of little-to-no power.
You could vote for reps that believe in universal healthcare or at least support ACA. Those reps will overwhelmingly be democrats. So vote D down the ballet.
Until that confidence is restored (Medicare For All is passed), I have to make plans to live in a functioning nation

Where you will then be a target of U. S. foreign policy. I'm still on the fence about which I'd rather face.
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the uncertainty around the cost of healthcare makes universal healthcare a hard sell for a rational, mostly self-interested voter with a decent job. to get to "yes", you need to convince this voter that their additional tax burden would be less than their current healthcare costs. comparing US insurance premiums with european per-capita costs doesn't do much unless you can explain why this would be different than all the other public services that are way less efficient here than overseas.

take me for example. I have no idea how much my employer contributes to my premiums. the only way I can think of to estimate the cost is to look up typical pricing for comparable ACA plans. if we switched to universal healthcare, I have no way of knowing what fraction of those premiums would be tacked back onto my salary versus simply pocketed by my employer. all I know is that things are currently okay for me, and as long as I do the in/out-of-network dance correctly, my exposure is limited to my out-of-pocket max. outside of ideological/moral concerns, there's really no incentive for me to rock the boat.
I've been sidetracked reading about why the Russians are into poisoning people. Some of it seems to go back to SMERSH which as well as being James Bond's nemesis was a real organisation set up by Stalin as "an organised “liquidation” programme intended to eliminate Stalin’s opponents" as well as Nazi collaborators.

After the war it continued under different names and for example:

>One failed attempt was on the life of Lisa Stein, a radio broadcaster in West Germany who in March 1955 only narrowly survived a dose of the lethal toxin scopolamine concealed in a box of chocolates

And I guess maybe the tradition continues. https://www.thearticle.com/the-kremlins-long-reach
The supermajority is the core of the problem.
I found out another source for how it went,

> he second group was irate because Sun had "unbundled" its software. That is, rather than getting all of Sun's developer tools together, they had to be purchased separately.

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050525231654621
They're also the same people that brought us Medicare, and people eligible absolutely love Medicare.

The VA's problems are in no small part because of the way it is structured (i.e. duplicate facilities, staff, low salaries, etc) and funded (combined with other military appropriations). If VA benefits were provided via Medicare it would have a structurally better system.
It's more like that on the surface of a sphere, great circles are lines. That's how it's interpreted in spherical geometry.
Given that we have lots of body cam footage of police brutality now yet haven’t significantly moved the needle on reducing incidences, I’m not hopeful that will make a difference.

Maybe incentives for snitching on fellow police would work better?
Yeah, Patreon has to maintain their rules for their service. It doesn't matter how someone feels wronged, they don't get a pass. Can you imagine the road they would've been going down if they'd let Wu stay? Every single ToS violation would've been litigated through social media. Whether or not Vice did something wrong is a matter for Wu & Vice to resolve, not Patreon.
What an odd coincidence that this was posted and on my YT subscribe page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUBEB9QlNCM - Just posting the video for others to see.
The recent focus on racial bias in policing has had a negative outcome: to distract attention from the fact that the law is being applied unevenly across the US.

Racial bias in police encounters is a symptom, not the disease.
Why should a hospital have a price list? Does the fire department? The police?
I believe the key word there is "see". Without obvious targets, from the outside all you see is everyday activities, even if that includes bribes and preferences, because that is how it's always treated from the inside.

On the other hand, you can always find a disliked minority somewhere. https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/default/files/is-e...
Nordic categorization is a cherry picked categorization to fit a demonizing of Sweden narrative.

Sweden is on par with the rest of Europe with all manner of their Corona stats.
I recommend a bottle of chewables, placed somewhere you're likely to see it every day. It's makes it easier to get others to take their dose as well, if you take the water glass out of the equation.
None of what you identified are covered in these useless classes. In my undergrad we had a sociology course that when over how people have different roles in life (family head, care giver, money maker, etc). It was all stupid obvious stuff without any non-technical merit.

If only those mandatory liberal arts classes taught things as useful as communicating and writing...
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> Interesting. Are you consistent about that?

Consistent about admiring bravery in the face of overwhelming odds? I guess I'm about as consistent with that as most people are. It's not something I've given a lot of thought to. Why the inquisition? Is this a harmful sentiment somehow?