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Dancer posted:Can you maybe... explain it to me? Like, okay, I get that Ferguson is sorta representative for the politics around race in the US (and racial relationships for certain parts of the US). But is there any sort of double meaning there, or actual joke, that I missed? I didn't get it either. I assumed it was a Clarissa thing, but I never watched it so the joke was lost on me.
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Gen. Ripper posted:Race war? So has he taken the plunge into literal white nationalism now? He's been flirting pretty heavily with it for quite a while. Takes the fun right out of listening to crazy conspiracy theories, honestly. 
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CommieGIR posted:Oh, its Florida, nothing to see here. They'll be just one of the biggest victims of climate change. New state motto in a few decades
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the sinking of florida reminds me that while climate change may be irreversible at this point, every cloud has a silver lining
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Jagchosis posted:the sinking of florida reminds me that while climate change may be irreversible at this point, every cloud has a silver lining They'll need to rebuild new roads to replace the coastal arterials that will be underwater. 
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Jagchosis posted:the sinking of florida reminds me that while climate change may be irreversible at this point, every cloud has a silver lining But if Florida starts to sink then other states will start to have more Floridians...
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Jagchosis posted:the sinking of florida reminds me that while climate change may be irreversible at this point, every cloud has a silver lining One of my favorite climate change related jokes deals with Scotland's attitude towards it. On the one hand, they're very worried about the global ecological ramifications, but on the other they get to watch the English drown, so there's that.
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My best friend is Canadian and his attitude is like "well sucks for you Yanks, but at least we'll have plenty of land that'll actually be made habitable"
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stinkles1112 posted:But if Florida starts to sink then other states will start to have more Floridians... Nah I got this idea from watching Fox News. You see we build this giant fence along the border and hire a bunch of armed guards to keep those people on their side of the fence.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:My best friend is Canadian and his attitude is like "well sucks for you Yanks, but at least we'll have plenty of land that'll actually be made habitable" Too bad they're actively destroying it!
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Brannock posted:Too bad they're actively destroying it! Yeah I left out the second part, "tar sands notwithstanding"
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Yeah I left out the second part, "tar sands notwithstanding" It's not even just tar sands -- a lot of really good Canadian farmland in Ontario is being paved over to make room for suburbia.
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Don't worry I hear permafrost makes great soil once it thaws.
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USPol has had a severe lack of the Coup for quite a while now. time to remedy that problem  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ_gFyB6GnA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jf_8pHCqf4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acT_PSAZ7BQ
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Say what you will about John Boehner, he's getting things done. Today he stopped giving money to Nazis. Tomorrow? Banning funding of penis pumps to help the disabled.quote:The Achieving a Better Life Experience, or ABLE, Act, could come up for a vote in the House as soon as this week. It would help the disabled save money to help pay for education, health care, transportation, housing and other expenses.
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Even when the owner of the business is there, in person, giving refuge to peaceful demonstrators there are people like this: 159 people agree. At least 159 people, possibly many more.
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These protestors need to start being civil and make their case heard silently somewhere nobody will notice them.
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Internet Webguy posted:These protestors need to start being civil and make their case heard silently somewhere nobody will notice them. Love it or Leave it!
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Protest not in the streets, but in the voting booth! Maybe it's time we started voting out these crooked cops!
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Medicare seriously buys $450 million worth of penis pumps every year?
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More like the Cock brothers.
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saintonan posted:Medicare seriously buys $450 million worth of penis pumps every year? Must be one of those things where a former congressman owned a stake in a penis pump company and wanted kickbacks.
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saintonan posted:Medicare seriously buys $450 million worth of penis pumps every year? No, that's the total amount for all the various savings. Medicare only buys 172 million dollars of penis pumps a year. (In seriousness: medical grade equipment can be pretty expensive, and Medicare is full of old people who need a little help getting it up. It's not actually that surprising an amount of money or pumps if each one is on the order of $500-1000, which wouldn't surprise me.)
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I went and double checked, Republican Candidates in LA Six received about 168, 000 votes to the Democrats 85,000ish. It's not looking good for the Silver Zipper  I'm really not looking forward to December Sixth 
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I didn't even notice that Edwin Edwards did well in the general election this year. He's in a debate tonight and looks like he'll take over Bill Cassidy's seat in Congress.
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saintonan posted:Medicare seriously buys $450 million worth of penis pumps every year? Look, all I'm saying is that with the end of the Cold War, the Pentagon is having a harder time hiding its black budget in massive doomsday nuke projects.
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saintonan posted:Medicare seriously buys $450 million worth of penis pumps every year? Listen man, it's hard buying up all the parts for your illegally modded potato cannon on a fixed income.
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Kalman posted:No, that's the total amount for all the various savings. Not quite every year. 172 million between 2006 and 2011. And they get them at double retail price apparently. http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/penis-pumps-cost-medicare-172-million-report-article-1.1578951
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Dancer posted:Not quite every year. 172 million between 2006 and 2011. And they get them at double retail price apparently. Gotta love how Medicare can overpay for devices and drugs and nobody bats an eye. It's like military appropriations, but for old people. Create a project that's a bitch to remove or modify without producing nasty soundbites against likely voters, but that ultimately also drives the deficit up giving you win/win when you aren't in power (not that anyone really remembers the splurge of 2002-2006).
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Pervis posted:Gotta love how Medicare can overpay for devices and drugs and nobody bats an eye. It's like military appropriations, but for old people. Create a project that's a bitch to remove or modify without producing nasty soundbites against likely voters, but that ultimately also drives the deficit up giving you win/win when you aren't in power (not that anyone really remembers the splurge of 2002-2006). Well, there is a medical device tax now that noted leftist Elizabeth Warren opposes.
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Pervis posted:Gotta love how Medicare can overpay for devices and drugs and nobody bats an eye. It's like military appropriations, but for old people. Create a project that's a bitch to remove or modify without producing nasty soundbites against likely voters, but that ultimately also drives the deficit up giving you win/win when you aren't in power (not that anyone really remembers the splurge of 2002-2006). An oversimplification of billing procedures and restrictions, but basically: Medicaid pays a set rate on procedures, calls for generic drugs in all possible cases, and is very hash in how far it will extend to non standard treatments Medicare just takes the bill from the provider and pays it no matter the treatment Guess which one provides care to the most consistent and vocal voters out there? Bonus round, guess which one we are told is unsustainable in terms of costs?
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Fried Chicken posted:An oversimplification of billing procedures and restrictions, but basically: Got anything to back this up because based on my understanding the part about Medicare is pretty much completely wrong
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stinkles1112 posted:But if Florida starts to sink then other states will start to have more Floridians... Nah. The retirees will fund Netherlands-style sea walls and land reclamation for the coast, let the interior sink, and watch property values skyrocket.
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FYI prospective payment systems and DRGs have been a big part of Medicare for decades now. Saying they get a bill and then pay it jumps past oversimplification into just plain wrong territory
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computer parts posted:Well, there is a medical device tax now that noted leftist Elizabeth Warren opposes. Why specifically? I could see opposing the tax because it's silly to tax something you are paying too much for. Or is there some major medical device lobby in MA? edit: Yup, there's a decent chunk of stuff in MA. It's kind of a funny tax, when single payer (and actually negotiating better for drugs/equipment) would save more. Pervis fucked around with this message at 06:19 on Dec 3, 2014 |
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This Ferguson thing is showing how ugly the midwest can get when race gets brought up. There was a die in that got substantial coverage at my alma mater (Missouri) and the school decided it would be a good idea to feature it on the FB page, resulting in a shitstorm of racist alumni leaking into the comments to condemn the school for supporting rioting and looting. This is ironic because the school administration itself gives 0 fucks that the campus is insanely racist and that vandalizing buildings to attack black students with racist graffiti on campus is practically a black history month tradition at this point.
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Cythereal posted:Nah. The retirees will fund Netherlands-style sea walls and land reclamation for the coast, let the interior sink, and watch property values skyrocket. There is no engineering solution whatsoever to keep Miami above water. Not that anything is going to be tried anyway. quote:Even worse, South Florida sits above a vast and porous limestone plateau. "Imagine Swiss cheese, and you'll have a pretty good idea what the rock under southern Florida looks like," says Glenn Landers, a senior engineer at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This means water moves around easily – it seeps into yards at high tide, bubbles up on golf courses, flows through underground caverns, corrodes building foundations from below. "Conventional sea walls and barriers are not effective here," says Robert Daoust, an ecologist at ARCADIS, a Dutch firm that specializes in engineering solutions to rising seas. "Protecting the city, if it is possible, will require innovative solutions."
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Good Citizen posted:Got anything to back this up because based on my understanding the part about Medicare is pretty much completely wrong We talking de facto or de jure, and A, B, C, or D? Because for part A, since they never follow up on the diagnosis to investigate upcoding, it works out to "yeah sure whatever, here's a chunk of money, keep the change" Part B is a mess because of the 1992 change, so now you get the regular "doc fix" to the formula for how much we will pay out for coverage. It ends up massively overpaying on average even though the idea is cap expenditures and the patient pays the rest. Part C is the one where they merge with HMOs and that wanders off into the weeds (there's a reason HMOs loss credibility since the 90s, do not ask me about the idiot bastards who operate them unless you want a spittle flecked near incoherent roaring rant about them and relatedly the societal benefits of reviving the practice of the blood eagle) Part D the point was that it would now cover all the expensive and name brand drugs, with social security kicking in Extra Help to cover the brand name stuff for poor people That more in line with your understanding?
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Pervis posted:Why specifically? I could see opposing the tax because it's silly to tax something you are paying too much for. Or is there some major medical device lobby in MA? It doesn't solve any of the major problems with the medical device industry and the cost of the tax just gets passed on down the line. It's just some of the only revenue they were able to pass at the time.
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Good Citizen posted:FYI prospective payment systems and DRGs have been a big part of Medicare for decades now. Saying they get a bill and then pay it jumps past oversimplification into just plain wrong territory Only if you ignore how prevalent upcoding is.
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