I know I'm probably being a bit paranoid, but I'm good without stellar excitement, thanks.

Imagine what's lurking nearby that, when it goes boom, can cause quite a bit of the wrong kind of excitement on Earth.

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.

Won't happen. Why? Because the government uses the future of their students to guarantee a seemingly unending flow of cash. Lower prices? Ha! They will raise them until the government cuts off their funding.

Or, apparently, when people stop going to college because of how expensive it is.

Colleges are toxic cesspits of ideology, where education often takes a back seat to politics. The ROI on most degrees has been non-existent for some time.

The entire higher education culture is due for a correction.

I'm tired of dealing with substandard IT services, from both India AND China. The language barrier is one thing, but I don't think I've ever spoke or worked with an agent from either country that could do anything other than read from a script. Once the problem deviates from the script they were useless.

Granted; US support is a mixed bag. Sometimes it's great, sometimes it sucks, but at least sometimes it IS great. That's not something I've ever experienced with Indian or Chinese support.

It's worth noting that current nutrition guidelines pegs recommended protein @ ~50 grams a day for an adult male, which is far below the 1.6 grams discussed in this article.

Let's take your average 160lb dude. That's around 72kgs. The article says there's no benefit beyond 1.6 grams per kg, so he should be eating 115.2 grams per day, far exceeding the "recommended" amount of ~50 grams.

Kind of an apples to oranges comparison. There are a lot of fundemental differences between Denmark and US which would impact the outcome.

Instead, let's take a look at government funded healthcare right in the US: The VA. A quick look should tell us everything we need to know about expanding such a system to cover all citizens.

Oh...oh no. No no no no.

Mind you, the VA is aimed at our soldiers. The people we depend on to defend our borders. Look what we do to those we should be celebrating! Now imagine what would happen to your average, ordinary every day joe. Or worse; imagine it gets politized by "the other side" ( which ever side you don't like ); can you imagine the republicans in charge of universal healthcare and you need an abortion? Or the democrats in charge and a heart attack victim comes in with a "Donor" dot on his DL and a MAGA hat on?

Thank you, no. There are far too many horrible, yet likely outcomes to this idea.

Nah.

Iâ(TM)m 51. Iâ(TM)ve had health insurance continuously for 35 years and have used it exactly ZERO TIMES.

I am self pay. For everything but true life threatening emergencies, which Iâ(TM)ve had zero.

Even the ER is cheaper when negotiated self pay.

My urologist is stunned that I pay $85 for his visits. Self pay. Including labs. My colleague goes to the same urologist and his insurance pays $550 for the same visit and naturally it comes out of his deductible lol.

Insurance is a scam. All insurance is legal gambling and gamblers never win.

Supply and demand dictate this is exactly the case.

If something is valuable to everyone, it should only be accessible to those who have enough saved value to acquire it.

The poor fucked themselves. My parents are poor but worked hard so I wouldn't be.

Being compensated for it means it wonâ(TM)t get wasted and will always have a fair valuation.

Compensation is as cooperative as it comes because nobody can hoard it.

Hey MS, I have an idea: How about you FINISH BAKING YOUR OS. It's a radical idea, but it just might work.

Streamline your control panels, make sure they all *work*. That'd go a long way in making your OS better.

Then you could take a quick look at usability; it shouldn't take me a dozen clicks to do something I routinely need access to. Oh, and stop fucking with the start menu if your so hot on people using it.

I could see voice input being a niche ( for those with accessibility issues ), but it's not going to replace the mouse and keyboard, anymore than touchscreen did.

...but charging speed improvements would minimize the importance of this metric. I don't care if I can only go 200miles on a single charge if it takes less than 3-5 minutes to recharge it.

It would be amazing if there was a document that stated in very clear terms just how limited our federal government is and what it can't do at all no matter what.

Everyone I know who makes my equivalent AGI, except for my household, has 1+ dogs, work crazy hours, and have been told that their dogs are lonely and depressed.

Not one or two people.

EVERYONE. Dozens upon dozens of my clients, colleagues, peers, friends from grade school, etc, have a dog or two, and then they have to have someone come spend time with said dog when they're putting 10+ hours away from them.

Wag/Rover/etc is part of their crazy consumer spending. I always am shocked to hear they're spending $1000 a month on their pets.

Americans are insane about their pets. Instead of buying a dog, I invest in corporate veterinary hospitals, because it's crazy profitable.

Right, I was ignorant of something...so I asked a question. That's generally how things work.

whataboutism is an argumentative fallacy. Doesn't apply here.

So...yes, you were just being a cunt.