miley_cyrus
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Comment · 1 year ago
No that is a huge failure. That is perhaps the biggest failure of Obamacare.
That means I, as someone with healthy lifestyle habits, has to pay largely the same premium as someone who smokes, is obese, and doesn't exercise. And sure enough, life expectancy in the US immediately stalled after the law's implementation: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/usa/uni.... Exactly what economics would predict would happen.
Comment · 1 year ago
Way too many examples to list all of them, but here is the easiest: Mamdani used the phrase "seizing the means of production" during a live streamed conference of the Young Democratic Socialists of America in February 2021.
https://www.aol.com/news/zohran-mamdani-chilling-call-seizin...
Comment · 1 year ago
That's outrageously false: every Republican voted against ACA, and Republicans for years campaigned on trying to overturn it.
Comment · 1 year ago
How about not encourage and exacerbate illegal immigration? https://mayor.lacity.gov/news/mayor-bass-issues-executive-di...
Comment · 1 year ago
This group is well known for bias, over and over through the years. Nothing they report should be taken at face value.
"A considerable amount of financial support for the Center comes from labor unions: According to federal reports, over the last 15 years it has received nearly $1.2 million in labor funding."
"The IRLE’s highest-profile researcher is Michael Reich, who co-chairs its Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics. Reich made a name for himself at a young age co-founding the Union for Radical Political Economics, with the stated goal of supporting “public ownership of production and a government-planned economy.”"
https://us.fundsforngos.org/news/nonprofit-accuses-uc-berkel... https://epionline.org/release/biased-uc-berkeley-research-te... https://epionline.org/release/biased-uc-berkeley-research-te...
Comment · 1 year ago
This group is well known for bias, over and over through the years. Nothing they report should be taken at face value.
"A considerable amount of financial support for the Center comes from labor unions: According to federal reports, over the last 15 years it has received nearly $1.2 million in labor funding."
"The IRLE’s highest-profile researcher is Michael Reich, who co-chairs its Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics. Reich made a name for himself at a young age co-founding the Union for Radical Political Economics, with the stated goal of supporting “public ownership of production and a government-planned economy.”"
https://us.fundsforngos.org/news/nonprofit-accuses-uc-berkel... https://epionline.org/release/biased-uc-berkeley-research-te... https://epionline.org/release/biased-uc-berkeley-research-te...
Comment · 1 year ago
"Paul Pelosi, 83, sold 30,000 shares of Google (GOOGL) stock in December 2022, just one month before the tech giant was sued over alleged antitrust violations."
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/deceptive-tactic-nancy-pelosi...
Comment · 1 year ago
> Since the laws preventing members of Congress from trading on information they receive as part of their duties, you can't say that the Pelosi's have violated any securities laws.
Oh yes, you can:
"Paul Pelosi, 83, sold 30,000 shares of Google (GOOGL) stock in December 2022, just one month before the tech giant was sued over alleged antitrust violations." https://finance.yahoo.com/news/deceptive-tactic-nancy-pelosi...
Comment · 2 years ago
Michael Reich is well known to push politically motivated, biased "research studies": https://epionline.org/release/new-website-exposes-berkeley-l...
Comment · 2 years ago
Anyone detect any activity on their servers as a consequence of this?
Comment · 3 years ago
Meanwhile Biden just banned mining in one of the most uranium rich area of the US ... US loses again
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/us/politics/biden-grand-c...
Comment · 3 years ago
If ACA is such a success story, then why is the US lifespan falling faster than any other developed country over the past few years?
There was of course a drop for COVID-19, but progress in life expectancy basically stalled after ACA was implemented, whereas life expectancy has kept growing in every other developed country.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2023/ameri...
And to be clear: "While opioids and gun violence have rightly seized the public’s attention, stealing hundreds of thousands of lives, chronic diseases are the greatest threat, killing far more people between 35 and 64 every year, The Post’s analysis of mortality data found."