This is retarded.
1. It isn't for profit healthcare that is the problem, it's THIRD PARTY PAY.
2. I don't use third party pay, ever, for healthcare. I've been insured nonstop for over 30 years, and NEVER ONCE has my insurer paid my doctor.
3. Even when I've had emergencies, I still called around, negotiated a fair cash up front rate, paid cash up front, and billed it to my insurer. My cash up front rate was sometimes below any co-pay negotiated with my insurer, lol.
I just recently had some elective surgery that would have cost me about $2000 on my annual deductible, but I was able to cash pay a negotiated rate of $400 including a follow-up "free". I submitted the $400 to my insurer and they reimbursed me.
Third party insurance exists because YOU VOTERS demanded the HMO Act of the 1970s, which tied health care to employment, and then employers outsourced it to third parties.
Health care is remarkably cheap in the US (cash pay, negotiated) and I don't have to wait months to see a doctor when I call and say I am cash pay. They bump me up fast.
As a Brit who has moved overseas, this is extremely obvious when driving in other countries, including other ex-British Empire colony countries.
Its insanely easy to get a license down here in NZ, and it shows with the quality of driving on the road.
"Motorways rarely have hard shoulders".
Yeah, going to have to disagree with this - most motorways have hard shoulders, while the situation of no hard shoulder is much rarer and always called out by signage.
Anthropic wouldn't have gotten into any trouble at all with this if they hadn't torrented a metric shit ton of books. If they had simply purchased a copy of each one second hand, they would have been clear training their models on those.
Whilst the headline is amusing, it's worth noting that the tribunal found in her favour because the company didn't follow the correct process in sacking her.
In other words, if you call your boss a dickhead and they dismiss you properly, you won't have a case to argue..
The stance which has completely removed all protections for women.
Because the shit hole you have created for yourselves is now seeing states not only criminalising abortion within their own jurisdiction, they are also criminalising going to another state for an abortion, or doctors in other states assisting people to have abortions.
As a traveller, theres plenty of reasons why I might end up in a hospital in a state which criminalises abortions and any treatment which may act as an abortion - I do not want my wife to die because we happened to be in a car accident and were taken to the wrong states hospital (its difficult to say "dont go there, go here" when unconscious), where she bled out because the doctors were too afraid to carry out a hysterectomy or something similar, purely because it *might* violate state law.
So dont you try and hide behind the "its the states responsibility" stance, you pathetic piece of shit. Your current regime has made it so much more than that and people are literally dying because of it.
My wife refuses to go to the US while the current anti-women stance exists in healthcare provision over there - imagine being refused medical treatment because that treatment might affect an unborn child, despite the fact that shes not pregnant. The mere fact that she is of child bearing age is enough for some states medical professionals to refuse certain types of life saving treatments, simply because it may induce an abortion.
So while we were planning on visiting next year for AdeptiCon and then do some touring, thats now completely off our radar.
Which didn't take into account all the services other countries buy from US companies.
All that software.
All that cloud.
All those apps.
All the financial services.
Conveniently left out of the equation.
The aircraft in question is a Dassault Falcon 900LX owned and operated by Luxaviation Belgium.
In other words, the aircraft in question is a private charter jet owned by a private company - its not a dedicated aircraft, its not a military aircraft, its not owned by the EU.
London is not representative of the rest of the UK.
We all wish it was.
You guys get orders of magnitude more investment than we do elsewhere in the UK.
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