From that post a linked tweet:
Fascinating to look at poll movement over the past six months:
UP:
Warren:21.7%
Pete:2.7%
DOWN:
Beto:7.1%
Bernie:6.4%
Biden:4.6%
Kamala:4.6%
Booker:2.3%
2020 speculation thread
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Sanders having a heart attack probably isn't helping his cause.
Warren/Harris 2020?
I'd like to see Harris as AG, chasing the swamp entities from the current administration.
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I like this Elizabeth Warren person.
Warren would be a very capable President if she could beat Trump. But she doesn't have a chance. Not only do conservative women despise her, but she is unmatched for the level of attacks Trump while hurl upon her. Warren will want to discuss policy while Donnie Two Scoops wants to roll around in the mud.
Watching Warren debate Trump will be like watching a physics professor explain thermodynamics to a falling down drunk hobo while half the audience yells obscenities at the candidates.
Watching Warren debate Trump will be like watching a physics professor explain thermodynamics to a falling down drunk hobo while half the audience yells obscenities at the candidates.
It’s really the fact that she has ZERO charisma.
She might be right about all the things, but ‘Murica doesn’t want to be lectured.
She might be right about all the things, but ‘Murica doesn’t want to be lectured.
See post 526.
Not enough.
I would love to have a beer with her. I hope there are enough people out there akin to me.
Me too, she is a lot like my mom (mom was a Columbia University professor).
But no, there aren’t many people who would.
It’s the venn Diagram of ‘Warren Supporters/people who dig classical music’, really.
But no, there aren’t many people who would.
It’s the venn Diagram of ‘Warren Supporters/people who dig classical music’, really.
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LULZ
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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard gets 2020 endorsement from David Duke
Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has apparently gotten an endorsement she said she can do without — from former KKK leader David Duke.
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I look forward to seeing the details of how Medicare for All might be funded.
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I look forward to seeing the details of how Medicare for All might be funded.
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Fuck the Olds, or at least 80% of them.
Out of curiosity, what impact do you think Medicare for all will have with Dr.'s? I hear rumors of a Dr. shortage. Do you think the government will begin to control what Dr.'s are paid & set the pay scale? I would assume so, to keep costs down, but I could be wrong. Your thoughts?Google News
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I look forward to seeing the details of how Medicare for All might be funded.
I looked at it a few months (years?) ago. As it stands today over 40% of the payer mix for my employer is already government payors, so it won’t change much (assuming rates are set at Medicare or higher, splitting the difference between them and private). If rates are attempted to be set at Medicaid levels then that won’t fly.
Did @Brian HCM#1 rape and murder 3 dozen pre adolescent boys in the early 90's? I don't know if it's true, but many people are saying it. We don't know that it didn't happen, I'm just asking questions.
WOW!!!! That's a real douche comment! Sad you're just a little bent out of shape snowflake that's unable to have a civil conversation with anyone who doesn't see eye to eye. Well, hopefully they'll start making big boy (ooops sorry I offended you, "Gender neutral") Pull-ups in your size after Trump wins in 2020, I think its cutting off some circulation. You're pretty intimidating behind a keyboard, I'm impressed!
You apparently missed his point completely. "I hear rumors" is akin to his "I don't know if it's true, but many people are saying it", which is the same thing that Herr Twitler likes to do all the time in making shit up.
OK, then my bad for misunderstanding. I did read it on Yahoo a few weeks back, written by a liberal opinion writer. So I was just wondering.
The President has said as much many times over, inserting names like "Hillary", "Mexicans", basically anyone who questions anything. Except for white supremacists...there are "good people" on that side...
Aww man.... You forgot "soy boy". I almost got Bingo.
Jacob Wohl, is that you? Were you in a hipster coffee shop at the time?
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there's way more factors than that. one of the major ones is the skyrocketing cost of malpractice insurance.
and the government has very limited power to control what doctors can and can't do.
I was just wondering with the trillions of dollars that will take to fund this, I see the government controlling what Dr.’s will be paid. If that’s the case I can see a possible shortage in doctors as the money won’t be there like it was before. Warren & Sanders for example are for more government control, which means that will dictate the rules and how much/little doctors will make.
between the cost of med school and the cost of malpractice insurance (among other things), the money isn't there *now*. my aunt left private practice as a pediatrician because of this. and it's not like dr's simply "go away" as you seem to be implying. one major aspect of this is because fewer and fewer med students are opting to go into general practice as drs but are opting for programs like PA's, nurses, etc. this has been a trend for decades.
I don’t foresee a shortage of doctors, there will always be demand. However, like I’ve seen in the trades due to wage erosion, the caliber of available talent will decline.
The innovation within the drug market (also your industry @jonKranked?) will also be muted if profits are limited. There will simply be no reason to innovate to the same level if the ROI isn’t there. Curing people doesn’t seem to be their motivation even at current pricing.
The innovation within the drug market (also your industry @jonKranked?) will also be muted if profits are limited. There will simply be no reason to innovate to the same level if the ROI isn’t there. Curing people doesn’t seem to be their motivation even at current pricing.
on the first point, this isn't suddenly going to cost "trillions of dollars" more, as Toshi has pointed out this will largely just be a shift of money away from private insurance.
and if you honestly think "the gov't will control what doctors get paid" you have a pretty major lack of understanding of how health insurance works.
see my prior point re: med students. this is fairly well documented and has been going on for a long time.
i was only in pharma briefly, but still have friends/family in that field.
on the topic of innovation, pricing, etc. here's some facts:
-drugs (as in a new API) now cost well over a billion dollars from the time they are created in a lab to the time they are brought to market. its usually in the realm of several billion dollars.
-it takes an average of 10 years to bring a new drug to market.
-for every drug that actually makes it to market, there are roughly 1000 that don't. i've seen a statistic that the reason for this is because somewhere around 95% (or higher) of new drugs fail to be proven effective or safe.
-sure, generic companies can make the drug cheaper, but their costs only account for the ***manufacturing*** of the drug, not the decade or so of R&D costs that it takes to develop a drug and prove that it is safe and effective for human use (clinical trials can cost hundreds of millions of dollars). all generic pharma companies do is reverse engineer drugs that are already on the market, and then wait for patents to expire to launch their own version (they will begin manufacturing months before a patent expires to build inventory in order to be able to launch on the day the patent has expired).
So with 20 years to protect the patent, I don't think generic drugs is causing the major issues of recapping R&D, it's just damn expensive to do the R&D and make drugs.
Do you mean to imply that healthcare is a nuanced, complicated issue that can't fit on a bumper sticker?
Healthcare thread, n00bs!
