the very reason those states are shitting out those bills now of all times is because Kavanaugh is in the Supreme Court, which means if anyone were to challenge those bills, chances are his right wing mind set will unravel the previous precedent in Roe v Wade or at least that’s the theory, better get use to him as well, he’s in the SC until he either leaves on his own accord or until he dies
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I chalk up a whole lot of inefficiency to too many MBA's playing MD's, interfering with providers' ability to do their jobs and patients' ability to receive care, and getting paid for it.
Do you know why I enjoy caring for private pay patients more than, say, my Medicare or Medicaid patients? It has nothing to do with the patients themselves, since I love them all. It has everything to do with people who aren't health care providers meddling in health care. When I have a private pay patient, I don't have to worry about getting in trouble for providing a service that's well within my scope of practice but isn't covered. What the patient needs, the patient gets, and gets it with the least interference.
Doctors' offices and medical clinics also love what we call prompt pay, because it bypasses a whole lot of middlemen. The providers get paid better, the patients get to pay less, and nobody has to fight with a bunch of guys in business suits to give or receive the care they need.
Honestly, I think we'd be better off if we limited insurance to catastrophic coverage.
I feel blessed to live in the U.S., because it allows me to have certain rights that unfortunately aren't in other places. The negative part is that most of the people that I'm around keep the law but don't have morals or true empathy.
I'm from Canada.
I had a friend from Buffalo back in college and it was fascinating to watch how people would turn on her when they found out she was American.
The only thing Canada has going for it culturally is that we're not America, and apparently we're vicious about it.
Is it true you say the pledge in school every day? I've heard different accounts of this from my friends in the US. If it's true that's some North Korea shit bruh.
ehh it’s really variable, some schools do it like once a week, others do it every day, my school use to not do it all until recently, and no one forces the students to say it either, or at least they shouldn’t be, certainly don’t force us to where I am lol.
But yeah, you don’t really have to say the pledge of allegiance if you don’t want to, there’s a psychological thing to it tho, you feel like you have to because you see a lot of other people doing it, it’s mob mentality, you don’t realize how many students don’t say it tho until you actually decide not to say it and then look around between all the standing students
its definitely not comparable to north korea, a place that’s so totalitarian that no one knows what their economy is like and their math textbooks talk about “American bastards”
Awesome video. So simple and easy to understand... and so very, very true.
As for the electoral system, I have mixed feelings about it. The way someone simply described it to me once before - "It's fair because it isn't fair." I get it, but at the end of the day, I still feel like majority rules is better. Considering that rural areas still very much so have a say in government since there's this whole House of Representatives thing. I do believe the minority should have a say, but I also don't feel like they should be making laws for the majority. Like the whole abortion issue. That's a pretty huge issue that is going to affect many people. I wouldn't want a minority of voters creating abhorrently restrictive laws for a majority that don't want it. And with the SCOTUS that way it is now, it is a real and valid concern made possible because of the electoral system allowing the person without majority vote to win.
Then again, if the roles were reversed, then I'd be pretty happy with it. But is it really better for the minority to be happy and the majority not to be? Especially when the science is on the majority's side?
What I said earlier has likely been buried now, but in the US, nobody can be forced to say the Pledge of Allegiance because not saying it is protected under the first amendment. So if a school were forcing kids to say it, then they could get in pretty big trouble for it.
That doesn't mean that your classmates couldn't be mad at you for not saying it, but the school itself wouldn't be able to get you in trouble for it, like giving you detention or the like.
Whoever's indoctrinated that easily by a line of words have other issues going on. Teachers don't check if you're actually saying it. I always just stood and mouthed the words, as I did whenever we sang happy birthday. No one really cared.
They only had the pledge of allegiance in elementary school anyway.
(grew up in northern California in the 90's)
