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Here’s the full article about this phenomenon… paywall removed:

These people hate socialism, but actually the most legitimate criticism of socialism is that there will be people who will not respect shared resources. Like in this pandemic where now >90% of the healthcare resources are spent on unvaccinated people. If this was a just system, they'd pay proportionately more for insurance, just like in Singapore where the unvaccinated have to foot bill for their COVID care.
 

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These people hate socialism, but actually the most legitimate criticism of socialism is that there will be people who will not respect shared resources. Like in this pandemic where now >90% of the healthcare resources are spent on unvaccinated people. If this was a just system, they'd pay proportionately more for insurance, just like in Singapore where the unvaccinated have to foot bill for their COVID care.
It's somewhat surprising that third-party payers haven't done something similar. Paying more for coverage if you engage in risky practices is a well-established tenet in the insurance industry.
 
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It's somewhat surprising that third-party payers haven't done something similar. Paying more for coverage if you engage in risky practices is a well-established tenet in the insurance industry.
I'm surprised too. It's probably bad business insuring these people.
 

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I guess so but imagine going through the trouble of getting a law degree and ultimately just conducting yourself like a 19 year old Infowars commenter. He’s beholden to zero standards of professionalism, he just talks shit all day.
You two clearly have different value systems. TC's strategy makes sense if you forget about most of our hopes to be valuable/contributing members of society and replace it with the goal of maximizing power and financial comfort achieved with the lowest effort. He created a persona that only flies with red voters but in exchange, he really don't have to perform, just be vocal. He'll never be president, and he knows, but all he has to do is type in some offensively stupid shit to Twitter and as long as he isn't freebasing money and gets his bribes legally, he'll be set for life.
 

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The power of Christ compels you to not get vaccinated. The power of the Court compels your nursing school to figure out how you can do clinical rotations required to graduate, even though hospitals can and do require you to be vaccinated

 

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It's somewhat surprising that third-party payers haven't done something similar. Paying more for coverage if you engage in risky practices is a well-established tenet in the insurance industry.

Pretty sure the ACA banned this practice.
 

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Regretting getting vaccinated? No problem, these cures will not only get rid of the vaccine, but will also turn you back into a virgin
n a TikTok video that has garnered hundreds of thousands of views, Dr. Carrie Madej outlined the ingredients for a bath she said will “detox the vaxx” for people who have given into Covid-19 vaccine mandates.

The ingredients in the bath are mostly not harmful, although the supposed benefits attached to them are entirely fictional. Baking soda and epsom salts, she falsely claims, will provide a “radiation detox” to remove radiation Madej falsely believes is activated by the vaccine. Bentonite clay will add a “major pull of poison,” she says, based on a mistaken idea in anti-vaccine communities that toxins can be removed from the body with certain therapies.


Then, recommends adding in one cup of borax, a cleaning agent that’s been banned as a food additive by the Food and Drug Administration, to “take nanotechnologies out of you.”
 

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Pretty sure the ACA banned this practice.
Risk-adjusted premiums are widely applied for auto, life, travel, and other forms of insurance, and the ACA allows premium adjustment based on tobacco use. To be clear, I think healthcare coverage should be provided to everyone, perhaps with penalties and/or incentives for a few specific behaviors such as smoking, though that's unlikely to ever come to pass here.

Remember when Trump promised to end coverage denial for people with pre-existing conditions? The closest he got was an executive order that was meaningless in the real world. And how many times have the Republicans tried to repeal the ACA, coming within one vote in 2018, without proposing a viable alternative? That's what happens when a party is bereft of ideas and, with few exceptions, cares more for their continued power than the well-being of their constituents.
 

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That guy is my hero! :love:

I wished more people went about in public saying things like "Hi, I'm Fred. I don't believe in the moon landing, I'm slightly racist and I don't trust science". What a wonderful world this would be if you could tell so easily who to avoid. That's why I like MAGA hats. They're telling me so much about themselves right up front. I don't need to find that out hours later in an awkward conversation.
 
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