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4 years ago
Pew research, two days ago:
"Trump draws support from 53% of those with a high school diploma or less, including 38% who say they strongly support him for reelection. In contrast, 68% of voters with a postgraduate degree say they support Biden for president, including 38% who say they strongly support him."
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4 years ago
Agree with most of what you said, @Tetra. I thought you were in biotech?
Incremental changes to the ACA is the best choice. Upper-middle-class people who did not qualify for subsidies are getting screwed, and that needs to change. Yes, pushing HCPs (especially MDs) into the middle-class is not a good solution.
"It was a poorly crafted law, as evidenced by Trump's ability to rip the guts out of it."
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Repeal failed in the Senate. The individual mandate was killed and hidden in the tax legislation. A bunch of GOP governors launched an idiotic lawsuit to kill the ACA outright and it will be back in front of the Supreme Court after the election. There were many bugs in the ACA at first -- but if GOP wants to sabotage the law, I don't see how that's evidence of a poorly crafted law?
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4 years ago
I'm using ignore for the first time. Adios, dipshit
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4 years ago
The UK has true socialized medicine where MDs work for the government. Canada has single-payer where the government pays private doctors. Sweden has a system similar to the ACA.
Pre-ACA, people would get sick and go bankrupt.
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4 years ago
If you don't answer, we can all assume you're one of the "low-information" voters you're complaining about. Right, Windex?
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4 years ago
So you're not willing to answer even the most basic questions about health insurance? What would you do if you couldn't buy insurance?
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4 years ago
Under the old system there were 50M who couldn't buy insurance.
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4 years ago
You didn't answer my question. What would you do if you could no longer buy insurance?
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4 years ago
@Winex- What kind of work do you do? Suppose you got cancer or heart disease and you could no longer work. Under the pre-ACA system you could find that health insurance was prohibitively expensive or you couldn't buy insurance at all? Is that the kind of society you want to live in? You go bankrupt if you're unlucky enough to get sick?
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4 years ago
@Winex - What specifically do you dislike about the ACA? What is your ideal healthcare system?
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4 years ago
Derogatory*
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4 years ago
Maybe, but it sounds derigatory to me. I had no idea that Limbaugh coined the phrase.
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4 years ago
^^ @Windex stated that Dem's are low-information voters. That's false and I backed it up with a statistical study
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4 years ago
Funny, since we're both working from home, I've been automating some of my wife's Excel spreadsheets. Started with C# which has Excel automation, but had to switch to VBA for other reasons. I hear Python also has Excel automation.
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4 years ago
@Winex-
I'm simply presenting facts. College-educated voters have left the Republican party in droves. You either accept reality or you don't.
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4 years ago
@Winex wrote: "Admittedly the one thing that she has going in her favor is the fact that people who vote for Democrats tend to be "low information" voters. "
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Story about high-education couties support Democrats:
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/11/11/poorly-educated-voters-hold-the-keys-to-the-white-house
"Over time, the partisan gap between college-educated voters and less-educated ones widened. In 2016 it exploded. The Pew Research Centre, a think-tank, found that overall, college graduates favoured Hillary Clinton by 21 percentage points, while those without a degree backed Donald Trump by a seven-point margin. Among whites, the difference is greater: those without a college degree backed Mr Trump over Mrs Clinton by a margin of more than two to one."
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4 years ago
I'm not sure why this is newsworthy. Neuroscience shows that adulthood doesn't occur until about 24 -- and kids do lots of stupid things.
As far as Kamala identifying as being black, I think it's ironic that her first name is Indian (it means "she of the "lotus"). She has to downplay her Indian-ness even though south Asians are the most successful ethnic group in the US. Kamala's Indian mom and Jamaican dad met at UC Berkeley (probably the best public university in the US). Her mom was a medical researcher and the dad became an economics prof at Stanford. She has an interesting family background and it belies the Trumpian, repulsive, nonsense that immigrants are rapists and murderers.
Yes, she's liberal but I think she's willing to bend in pragmatic ways. For example, I wouldn't worry about the US having socialized medicine in the same way as those shithole countries like the UK and Canada. The Democrats in Congress don't want single-payer healthcare and the president doesn't get to craft legislation. Biden's interested in incremental changes to the ACA and I think that's going to work out just fine.
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4 years ago
@Mikey
Good post
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4 years ago
South asian
And the Russian vaccine did not go through clinical trials
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4 years ago
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IceyI put your ATF on a winning team
Another good call, Mark
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4 years ago
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IceyI put your ATF on a winning team
Mark wrote
"Incidentally, the rumor is that Kamala turned down the VP spot, which explains the long delay from Biden. Kamala knows Biden is going to lose and it would be the end of her career if she were on the ticket. Remember Tim Kaine ?"
LOL
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4 years ago
Lol, great story. Probably not the best choice for a business dinner.
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4 years ago
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IceyI put your ATF on a winning team
^^^ Lol, aren't you 70-yrs-old, Mark? Let me spell this out since you don't seem to understand. The only thing of substance in the executive orders is the payroll-tax holiday. Trump has gone on record that he wants the cuts to be permanent. Do you understand? That would bankrupt Social Security and guarantee his loss.
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4 years ago
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IceyI put your ATF on a winning team
I'm most familiar with the executive order to stop collecting the employee portion of payroll taxes until the end of the year. It's probably constitutional because it's not a cut in taxes; the unpaid taxes are still due on Tax day 2021.
But it's a stupid idea -- about as stupid as hydroxychlorquine or drinking bleach or calling Fauci a "preening asshole." First off, it doesn't help the unemployed because they don't pay payroll taxes. And unless congress turns this into an outright tax cut, clueless workers will be hit with an unexpected tax bill in 2021. If the employees don't pay up, their employers have to pay the tax.
Trump and the GOP want to cut back on SS and sabotaging payroll taxes is one way to get there. It's not going to happen with a Democratic congress -- but it's something for the decaying, geriatric, guys on TUSCL to consider.
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4 years ago
I'm not a "lefty" but agree with this quote by Illhan Omar:
“Every single fire set ablaze, every single store that is looted, every time our community finds itself in danger, it is time that people are not spending talking about getting justice for George Floyd.”
Nearly everyone -- right, left, center-- is opposed to the rioting.