Take a look at the numerator. It's what they actually charged insured patients. The denominator is their official Chargemaster rate. If they're super-aggressive in setting their Chargemaster rates, and insurers negotiate a 98% discount, the number is 2%, and the patient is only getting hit with $4k. Your 50% discount scenario is way too low for the US Health System because if your insurance company only gets 85% off the Chargemaster rates you've got a crappy insurance company.

So the uninsured only get hit with $100k bill is a) they got care that would cost Blue Cross $100k, or b) they're too wealthy to qualify for any of the programs in the ACA.

Any demographer drawing genetic conclusions from "Asian" is somewhat..confused...South Asians are much more closely related to Europeans than East Asians, so to get meaningful data on genetics you'd have to find some way to get the Japanese and the Pakistanis into different spots on your table. Britain's Asians are almost entirely South Asian, not East Asian, which any extrapolations from US data even more...confused.

Most importantly, actual British data on life expectancy numbers have whites quite low. Black African women are actually highest, and Black African men only lose to "Other" and "Asian Other" (which is presumably mostly East Asian as their main South Asian groups have their own lines).

The UK rate you gave is not obesity, it's obesity plus overweight. Obesity alone is 28%. The other 36% are merely "overweight." We're skinnier than them, but they're catching up.

If your health system is run by people who know medicine increased wait times have nothing to do with actual health outcomes. "Cutting edge treatment" options in the US tends to be stuff that some Doctor thought "hey this should work," but has not proven it yet. As for the new drugs developed, have you looked at the list? It's pretty much entirely "This drug is just like that other drug, except it costs 500% more, and is less likely to stop your boner."

Healthier lifestyle is somewhat arguable. Brits drink a lot more, but they also walk a lot more, so they're in-shape. But drunk. Whether skinny drunk is healthier than sober fatty depends on how drunk and how fat.

"Different demographics" is just wrong. The only demographic factor that has a significant effect on health costs is age, and they have fewer kids so they're a couple years older.

In theory the uninsured aren't supposed to pay that. There's a whole set of rules protecting them. There are times when somebody has an insurer that has terrible negotiators, and their co-pay is higher than an uninsured person who qualifies.

You only get screwed if you're too high-income to qualify, the hospital is for-profit, or you send them the money without contacting them.

Copyright doesn't slide into the public domain. Trademark does.

Copyright holders are super-aggressive because they've subcontracted enforcement to a third party that gets paid when violations are found. The subcontractor is doing the enforcement. This also makes it hard to verify whether Bart's Legal LLC of Preoria IL is actually employed by Paramount films.

A lot of your revenue comes from the first couple days a video is out because the algorithm promotes new content. They could write an algorithm that promotes content that is just off a DMCA clam if they wanted.

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Apparently this is not uncommon in Australia, and multiple people have been either forced to settle or sued.

My actual experience with Apple is similar to Dixie_flatline's. I actually got a full motherboard replacement for free just because I was being a nice customer and some other chintzy-ass part was replaceable under a "we fucked this up" repair program. I told them I spilled Dr Pepper on the keyboard and that's why it didn't work, and then when they were cataloging my devices problems prior to shipping I pointed out one that qualified for a free repair, so I got a lot more work than I deserved. The closest thing I've ever experienced to someone getting bad repair service from Apple is last time I was in some lady had drowned her iPhone, and they charged her $100 for the replacement iPhone despite AppleCare. She was not being nice to the staff.

Apple gets loyalty because mostly they treat their customers right. They're fucking huge, so it's not 100%, Rossman deals with the exceptions.

This has to be a first.

OTOH, it was always a bit strange that people thought Tim Cook gave a fuck about repair revenue. Apple is a publicly traded company with publicly available revenue figures. The money makers are clearly the App stores, iOS devices, and Macs, in roughly that order. Tim Cook was not fucking with Lois Rossman's repair business to make more money, Tim Cook was fucking with Louis Rossman's shop because change is work and Tim Cook is lazy. With the shareholder proposal Tim Cook can either engage in a lengthy and nasty dispute with his shareholders, whilst fighting Rossman-inspired Right to Repair bills nation-wide, or he can just tell some dude three levels below him to put in some OT to appease the shareholder activists.

It remains to be seen whether the actual repair policy, as executed by Apple employees dealing with Apple customers, is enough to appease Louis Rossman. I haven't watched his videos on that, but the subject lines was "Watch's the Catch"? so he seems pretty skeptical.

There's a lawsuit. Or there was a lawsuit. As of February/Marchish it was still going on, but I haven't been able to get anything recent. I suspect t was quietly settled right before the Nuvia acquisition by Qualcomm in July.

Note: In Cali non-competes are illegal. So you can actually just quit and start your own company doing the same thing. It's only an issue if you are doing work for the new company (in this case: Nuvia) whilst still employed by the old (Apple). Which was Apple's initial beef with this Gerard person.

Depends on what you mean by "market acceptance."

If you mean most people, who just use their webbrowsers, will be fine with it yeah. It'll do fine. If it's comparable to mid or high-end Intel chips in performance-per-dollar, and draws fewer watts; it will do very well in higher end applications. Which high-end applications depend heavily on the price-per-performance actually achieved. Incidentally: keep in mind that low-end engineering can do very well in performance-per-dollar, as long as the MBAs give them the price point of even lower-end Intel processors.

If by "market acceptance" you mean that high-end pros will consider the Quallcom platform into a legit competitor with Wintel/Windows-AMD, LINUXen of various types on various types, homebuilding gamers, and macOS; that's another thing completely. That requires a lot of software support.

Putin wanted a thing portraying Russia as strong, Putin orders test just like American test, nobody asks the math guys to do math, *poof* Russia almost kills it's own cosmonauts. Now Russia is going "we knew they wouldn't die, you Americans are such pussies."

He's probably somewhat panicky because Belarus is flaring up, and he's committed to Lukashenko so he can't replace Lukashenko, which means he needs something on TV besides Lukashenko's stupid dick-measuring contest with the EU, and he hadn't done the proper prep work. It's kind of like the situation the US ended up in with South Vietnam after their political leadership started shooting itself, except instead of having the resources of like 50% of the globe's economy to paper over the disaster he's got an economy that can't raise the retirement age because most of the men don't make it to retirement age already.

The only question is whether it's stupidity or malice.

Given Putin's involved, I suspect stupidity. The person who knew enough about where the ISS was going to orbit was simply not informed that this was a bad idea, so they did it despite the fact it's a bad idea, and are now gonna swear that almost killing their own people was part of the plan the whole time.