I think an ambulance ride on my plan is covered 80% by insurance before my deductible, so I pay 20% out of pocket until I hit my deductible and then they cover it all.

So at most I’d pay $4000, but my neighbor took a ride to the hospital when he fainted and it only cost him a few hundred bucks (obviously our insurance coverage isn’t the same so it’s hard to cover like for like)

The real cost is the nearly $700 a month I pay for insurance just to have insurance to “negotiate” prices for me to pay. My $4000 deductible shakes out to like $8400 a year out of my pay for them privilege of paying “negotiated” prices for the first 4000.

I may end up with a $300 ambulance ride but I w already doled out $8k+ for the luxury of being allowed to only have to pay 20% of that ambulance ride.

Old man shouldn’t get a say in what a woman is.

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Generally incompetent leaders who promoted people to positions of power based on their loyalty rather than merit also.

Just the whole general way they did everything, I’d say.

The best the world can hope for is another civil war inside the US.

Frankly this is less likely than a midterm sweep and an impeached and removed Trump.

Both are fantasy I think.

I hear it’s infested with westerners and bogans.

I can agree that we ought to not blockade the people of Gaza while also believing another group ought not shoot missiles at innocent shipping in an effort to raise awareness for the first group.

It’s not cognitive dissonance.

Sure.

The USA is like 60% of NATO forces.

So this would more likely lead to the dissolution of NATO.

The point I was making is that the adults in the room would probably prefer to not kick the hornets nest despite preparing for the worst if the hornets nest kicks off.

Use stolen military technology as a casus-belli maybe?

JFC

Not dead, and frankly your comment coulda gone either way.

In the future when you’re stepping razors like this you may want to add the /s so folks know your intent.

Yall, the USA just lost the fucking Cold War.

You’re either not understanding the intent of their message or you’re willfully twisting it.

That’s what is being pointed out.

They’re clearly referencing the invaders, you misunderstood and took umbrage where you didn’t need to. Having been corrected you’re still pushing the idea that they were being racist.

You’re acting in bad faith.

The average us citizen doesn’t have a solid grasps of how our government actually works.

Defunding education and gutting curriculum and removing civics education has … been impactful.

Soooooo cheaper than the 900k starter homes here in my suburban hell

The Chesapeake bay shakes its claws in disgust

… talk amongst yourselves

Caaaan ya find one similar for the Chesapeake Bay?

This kinda sounds like the many decades old argument for security domains and trusted paths

Just, not quite as well made and not nearly as well informed.

20 years ago this was a cromulent argument. Today it’s just narrow