Money is never unlimited. If private or public insurers have to blindly cover everyone, as Obamacare mandated, they will try to limit what they will cover. If insurers are further compelled to blindly cover everything, they will look harder at specific claims. If they can limit neither whom they cover nor what they cover, they will either raise their policy premiums or get out of the business.
It’s rich for progressives who have pushed for all of these developments – from the guaranteed issue of policies to people with pre-existing conditions to mandates of what those policies cover – to now complain about increasing premiums and rising claim denial rates. What did they think would happen?
So now, they are reduced to cheering for literally shooting the messenger.---McLaughlin
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Questions
Does prudence modify principles?
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Luigi Mangione is charged with killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson - but police have now announced he wasn't even a client of the medical insurer. He potentially targeted the medical insurer because of its size and influence, a senior police official said Thursday.
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It will be interesting to see, with the Healthcare CEO murder, how the NY DA office handles a real criminal.
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Does populism come with a rise in vigilanteism?
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A few years ago, a poll found that whereas 63 percent of voters said they viewed the Founding Fathers as heroes, among the under-thirties that figure shrank to 39 percent. Meanwhile, fully 31 percent of U.S. voters under 30 said they saw the Founders as “villains.”
A few years ago, a poll found that whereas 63 percent of voters said they viewed the Founding Fathers as heroes, among the under-thirties that figure shrank to 39 percent. Meanwhile, fully 31 percent of U.S. voters under 30 said they saw the Founders as “villains.”
"Villains."
Can a culture that does not hold itself in high regard, survive?
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Kylie Kelce, wife of former NFL player turned media personality Jason Kelce, beat out Joe Rogan for the top podcast spot on both Apple and Spotify this week.
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John Kerry met with Assad at least six times, including in February 2009, while he was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Gabbard met with him once as a member of the House of Representatives.
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A year-long investigation by the General Accounting Committee found, that during the transition to the incoming Bush administration, Clinton’s staff had caused about $15000-worth of ‘damage, theft, vandalism and pranks’ although there were no prosecutions.
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The Economist has chosen kakistocracy as its word of the year.
kakistocracy is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. The word was coined as early as the seventeenth century
The word is derived from two Greek words, kakistos (κάκιστος; worst) and kratos (κράτος; rule), with a literal meaning of government by the worst people
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Much of the trouble in the world can be attributed to people taking bad studies seriously.
A study of whatever quality raises a bad idea to another power.
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Russia stole $5 million John Deere tractors from Ukraine only to find they could be remotely disabled.
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Kylie Kelce, wife of former NFL player turned media personality Jason Kelce, beat out Joe Rogan for the top podcast spot on both Apple and Spotify this week.
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John Kerry met with Assad at least six times, including in February 2009, while he was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Gabbard met with him once as a member of the House of Representatives.
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A year-long investigation by the General Accounting Committee found, that during the transition to the incoming Bush administration, Clinton’s staff had caused about $15000-worth of ‘damage, theft, vandalism and pranks’ although there were no prosecutions.
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The Economist has chosen kakistocracy as its word of the year.
kakistocracy is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. The word was coined as early as the seventeenth century
The word is derived from two Greek words, kakistos (κάκιστος; worst) and kratos (κράτος; rule), with a literal meaning of government by the worst people
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Much of the trouble in the world can be attributed to people taking bad studies seriously.
A study of whatever quality raises a bad idea to another power.
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Russia stole $5 million John Deere tractors from Ukraine only to find they could be remotely disabled.
Imagine that happening with other imported technologies.
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Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, only 6% of defense spending went to defense specialists — so-called traditionals. Today that 6% has ballooned to 86%.
The S&P 500 last added a defense company 46 years ago — until Palantir’s addition in September 2024.
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