What’s not to understand about your healthcare? It’s the one thing you literally cannot live without. Make the barrier to it $$$ (and tie it to your employment) means you’ll always have a subdued work force, and a big money funnel for the wealthy.
That’s only the start and even then not quite accurate. I don’t have insurance through my employer, for example: I used to have it through the government and now I have private, and before either I just bought healthcare with cash on the barrelhead.
And the thing is, paying cash is usually less than half of the price charged to insurers, even if you set up a payment plan, because individuals are easier to get to pay than the insurance corporations. And there’s ab additional discount for paying day-of-service because then they don’t even need to send a bill and they know they’ll actually get paid! So it can be a lot cheaper to buy healthcare in cash, depending on how much you need.
But now let’s say you have government insurance: Very good on preventative care, pediatrics, prenatal. Everything generally performed in-house and same-day, but scheduling is a crapshoot. Still the simplest insurance option once you have it.
Employer-provided insurance: My ex-employer, two jobs and half a decade ago, is still fighting with their insurance provider at the time about a hospital visit I had back then. Insurance says it wasn’t withing coverage dates, HR can prove otherwise.
Private insurance (but also employer insurance): Actual healthcare providers don’t know and don’t care if services are within network; which can change on a whim anyway, so someone who was in network when you schedule an appointment might be out-of-network three months later when you finally get in there. Since you can’t just schedule with a specialist without a referral, it takes at least two months and two appointments to see one, often more like six months, and whether or not your insurance will pay for it is up in the air anyway. And you’re paying hundreds of dollars each month for this “service”. It’s insane.
And this is for a young family in relatively good health seeking preventative care. I can’t even image this nightmare of corporatism and bureaucracy with a chronic condition or an emergency.
The Electoral College exists because it was never the intent for the President to be elected by the public. It sticks around because changing it requires changing the Constitution, and a majority of states benefit from the status quo.
Healthcare, electoral college, how supreme court justices are elected, first past the post voting system.
Edit: and the self assurance to nitpick a foreigner over the details of how justices come into their job.
The EC is a mechanism to make the Presidential election less democratic.
Supreme Court Justices aren’t elected at all. The President nominates a judge and the Senate votes to approve that person for the post.
FTtP voting is bad. It’s just awful. The more you understand it the clearer that becomes.
Healthcare… no cap, we don’t understand it, either. It’s a mess.
What’s not to understand about your healthcare? It’s the one thing you literally cannot live without. Make the barrier to it $$$ (and tie it to your employment) means you’ll always have a subdued work force, and a big money funnel for the wealthy.
That’s only the start and even then not quite accurate. I don’t have insurance through my employer, for example: I used to have it through the government and now I have private, and before either I just bought healthcare with cash on the barrelhead.
And the thing is, paying cash is usually less than half of the price charged to insurers, even if you set up a payment plan, because individuals are easier to get to pay than the insurance corporations. And there’s ab additional discount for paying day-of-service because then they don’t even need to send a bill and they know they’ll actually get paid! So it can be a lot cheaper to buy healthcare in cash, depending on how much you need.
But now let’s say you have government insurance: Very good on preventative care, pediatrics, prenatal. Everything generally performed in-house and same-day, but scheduling is a crapshoot. Still the simplest insurance option once you have it.
Employer-provided insurance: My ex-employer, two jobs and half a decade ago, is still fighting with their insurance provider at the time about a hospital visit I had back then. Insurance says it wasn’t withing coverage dates, HR can prove otherwise.
Private insurance (but also employer insurance): Actual healthcare providers don’t know and don’t care if services are within network; which can change on a whim anyway, so someone who was in network when you schedule an appointment might be out-of-network three months later when you finally get in there. Since you can’t just schedule with a specialist without a referral, it takes at least two months and two appointments to see one, often more like six months, and whether or not your insurance will pay for it is up in the air anyway. And you’re paying hundreds of dollars each month for this “service”. It’s insane.
And this is for a young family in relatively good health seeking preventative care. I can’t even image this nightmare of corporatism and bureaucracy with a chronic condition or an emergency.
Supreme Court justices aren’t elected.
The Electoral College exists because it was never the intent for the President to be elected by the public. It sticks around because changing it requires changing the Constitution, and a majority of states benefit from the status quo.
There is a plan for its abolishment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUX-frlNBJY&pp=ygUXdG9wIHNuZWFreSBwbGFuIGNncGdyZXk%3D
How any judge is just elected…
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If justice isn’t democratic then nothing is.