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lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

bernie sanders hosed my rear end raw

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HiHo ChiRho
Oct 23, 2010

lobster shirt posted:

bernie sanders hosed my rear end raw

Which one there's like 30 posting itt rn

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


I just realized that when DelDem-a-thon pokemon evolve, they turn into the DNC 2020 "For What It's Worth" video

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


HiHo ChiRho posted:

Which one there's like 30 posting itt rn

all of them. that's collective action.

Uncle Wemus
Mar 4, 2004

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

HiHo ChiRho posted:

Which one there's like 30 posting itt rn

one after the other, thats why my rear end is so raw

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


lobster shirt posted:

one after the other, thats why my rear end is so raw

im sorry for your lots

holefoods
Jan 10, 2022

Fly Molo posted:

bernie is just a miserable pile of slurs in a trenchcoat

what is a sanders? a miserable pile of marxism

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY
Feb 3, 2006

Your King Bernie looks like a kind of dirty wizard or homeless Santa

1glitch0
Sep 4, 2018

I DON'T GIVE A CRAP WHAT SHE BELIEVES THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS CHANGED MY LIFE #HUFFLEPUFF

Willa Rogers posted:

it's lol watching dnd puzzle over why people are going to vote dems out of congress in a few weeks.

"it's bc they're racist! it's bc they're ignorant! it's bc they've been brainwashed! it's bc they don't understand how well they've got it under dems!

(btw, olds shouldn't get as much as they do in pensions anymore bc they're living longer!)"

just the most privileged dreck you can imagine, with a serving of unironic neoliberalism for dessert.

Willa,

I don't know where else to ask you this, but recently you mentioned in passing not to get medicare advantage plans. My boomer parent does in fact have a medicare advantage plan so what's the issue with it?

mystes
May 31, 2006

I thought they were just supplemental insurance on top of medicare since medicare doesn't cover everything?

Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004

1glitch0 posted:

Willa,

I don't know where else to ask you this, but recently you mentioned in passing not to get medicare advantage plans. My boomer parent does in fact have a medicare advantage plan so what's the issue with it?

Would Joe Namath lie to your parents?

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

docbeard posted:

Realtalk, though, a FOIA request not yielding good results is not a surprise because not only do they have to be very specific in the results they give, but the people actually fulfilling the requests probably actively hate you personally and wish you ill in ways that no amount of 'in Minecraft' would absolve you of, because dealing with FOIA requests is such an absolute pain in the rear end, so they have no incentive to be even remotely helpful.

(Source: I dealt with FOIA requests back when I worked for the state)

thanks. I do plan on doing things different this time.

I looked through the Secret Service FOIA request logs and wow, there are some good ones!

bedpan has issued a correction as of 00:15 on Oct 18, 2022

Shifty Nipples
Apr 8, 2007

lobster shirt posted:

all the bernie avatars make it hard to know whats going on sometimes, i dont usually read usernames i just look at the avs. oh well.

they are themed pretty well tho like yours literally contains a lobster shirt

biceps crimes
Apr 12, 2008


lobster shirt posted:

all the bernie avatars make it hard to know whats going on sometimes, i dont usually read usernames i just look at the avs. oh well.

same, im disoriented and people don’t like my moobs

biceps crimes
Apr 12, 2008


lobster shirt posted:

bernie sanders hosed my rear end raw

HiroProtagonist
May 7, 2007

biceps crimes posted:

same, im disoriented and people don’t like my moobs

lobster shirt posted:

bernie sanders hosed my rear end raw

excellent pairing

1glitch0
Sep 4, 2018

I DON'T GIVE A CRAP WHAT SHE BELIEVES THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS CHANGED MY LIFE #HUFFLEPUFF

Lib and let die posted:

Would Joe Namath lie to your parents?

I don't want Joe Namath anywhere near my mother

spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle
Bernie Sanders Ate My Balls

Part of the Ate My Balls Webring

Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004

1glitch0 posted:

I don't want Joe Namath anywhere near my mother

How about the "dye-no-MIIIIITE" guy? Or Tom Selleck?

Uncle Wemus
Mar 4, 2004

Shifty Nipples posted:

they are themed pretty well tho like yours literally contains a lobster shirt

It took me a bit to realize mine was yellow because of the simpsons thread

Shifty Nipples
Apr 8, 2007

Uncle Wemus posted:

It took me a bit to realize mine was yellow because of the simpsons thread

yeah I'm realizing now that some of them don't make obvious sense

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

Uncle Wemus posted:

It took me a bit to realize mine was yellow because of the simpsons thread

i think some are riffs on the poster's name, some are riffs on their previous avatar, and some are ???

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/osamabishounen/status/1582150535255183364?t=eqqtDlUxjvUfFF1OaRjXtw&s=19

Excelzior
Jun 24, 2013

HiHo ChiRho posted:

Which one there's like 30 posting itt rn

rainbow bernie ftw

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

All Cops Are Bernie

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005

1glitch0 posted:

Willa,

I don't know where else to ask you this, but recently you mentioned in passing not to get medicare advantage plans. My boomer parent does in fact have a medicare advantage plan so what's the issue with it?

oy, that would take a clearer head than mine at the moment but the cliffs:

* they're like under 65 plans: restricted to networks of providers usually within state or county lines

* they have higher out-of-pocket costs than medicare gap plans

* you can't switch to a gap plan from a MA plan without underwriting

* they can approve/deny treatment & specialists while with gap plans you can go to any provider who accepts medicare (about 98 percent of providers)

* they're a way to morph medicare into non-medicare-type private insurance; the government incentivizes enrollment even tho it costs the government more money, especially with the fact that

* many are fraudulent, getting extra money from the feds by making their insureds look sicker than they are

caveat: the one exception seems to be kaiser, which runs their medicare advantage programs the same way they run their HMOs: internally.

there's also a new hellish program called Direct Care Entities, comprised of hedge funds + other investors, which trump started & biden has expanded in the name of "equity"

let me eat some dinner then I'll post some bookmarked stuff I have.

FormaldehydeSon
Oct 1, 2011

Dumpmaster General posted:

it rules that the thing they're glossing over as 'fixed in the 1920s and 2002' is literal laws making the entire state white only under penalty of lynchings, never let a pine tree humping smug lib pretend their state isn't one of the most cartoonishly racist in the country

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free sexpig

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

Willa Rogers posted:

there's also a new hellish program called Direct Care Entities, comprised of hedge funds + other investors, which trump started & biden has expanded in the name of "equity"

jfc

FormaldehydeSon
Oct 1, 2011

Excelzior posted:

gently caress I can't imagine being so petty and insecure that you'd double down on permabanning sexpig, god drat

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005

mystes posted:

I thought they were just supplemental insurance on top of medicare since medicare doesn't cover everything?

no, the supplemental plans are traditional medicare.

the misnamed "medicare advantage" programs don't go by medicare rules nor get paid at set rates by the federal government like the supplemental plans. They shouldn't be allowed to use medicare in the name imo much less "advantage"

Terror Sweat
Mar 15, 2009


Lol

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005

bookmarks dump

Direct contracting entities:

Joe Biden Is Privatizing Medicare

Seniors’ Medicare Benefits Are Being Privatized Without Consent:

quote:

The new Direct Contracting Entity (DCE) program similarly adds a private-sector third party between patients and Medicare services. Medicare allows these intermediary companies to offer unique benefits, like gym membership coverage. But as for-profit operations ranging from private insurers to publicly traded companies to private equity firms, these intermediaries are incentivized to limit the care that patients receive, especially when they are very sick.

While Medicare Advantage patients choose to sign up for private insurance plans, patients are being enrolled in these DCE health care plans without their informed consent. As Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) noted in a January op-ed, “Seniors in traditional Medicare may be ‘auto-aligned’ to a DCE if any primary care physician they’ve visited in the past two years is affiliated with that DCE. That means Medicare automatically searches two years of seniors’ claims history without their full consent to find any visits with a participating DCE provider as the basis for enrollment.”

Medicare Direct Contracting Demo Garners Critics and Defenders:

quote:

How the Program Works

The program offers two different types of direct contracting models, including "both capitated and partially capitated population-based payments that move away from traditional fee-for-service" and tries to broaden participation to include "organizations new to Medicare fee-for-service, such as physician-managed organizations that currently operate exclusively in the Medicare Advantage program," according to CMS. These organizations, which could include physician-run accountable care organizations (ACOs), insurance companies, and health systems, could choose from two models: one that allows the organization to share in 50% of the savings or losses, and uses primary care capitation; or a second model in which they would share 100% in savings and losses and use capitation either just for primary care or for all care.

Liz Fowler, director of the CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), which developed the Direct Contracting program, was very clear about the direction the Medicare program is taking. "First and foremost, CMS is committed to the shared goal of moving away from fee-for-service," Fowler said at the LAN (Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network) Summit last month.

Liz Fowler was Max Baucus's chief of staff & she's credited with writing most of the ACA, then was hired by Obama to oversee it at CMS. She's a former Blue Cross lobbyist who has vowed to get rid of traditional Medicare by 2030: "If we reach our goal of moving 100% of traditional Medicare beneficiaries into [accountable care] relationships by 2030, 100% of traditional Medicare payments will be tied to alternative payment models."

She sucks.

Physicians Slam Industry Push to 'Fix'—Not End—Medicare Privatization Scheme

Congress 'Asleep at the Switch' as Biden Continues Trump-Era Ploy to Privatize Medicare



Critiques of Medicare Advantage:

Stop the Medicare “Advantage” Scam Before Medicare is Dead

The Dark History of Medicare Privatization

Medicare Advantage, Direct Contracting, And The Medicare ‘Money Machine,’ Part 1: The Risk-Score Game

Democrats Prepare to Privatize Medicare, Using Medicare Advantage as Their Opening Wedge (and New York Unions?)

Medicare Advantage Is a For-Profit Scam. Time to End It.

'Straight Up Fraud': Data Confirms Private Insurers Use Medicare Advantage to Steal Billions:

https://twitter.com/sangerkatz/status/1578748360366108675

The only members of congress really pushing this info out are jayapal & warren, although a bunch of house members have signed a Strongly Worded Letter about direct contracting.

Traditional Medicare is on the chopping block by both parties, and you'll hear & see (even on SA!) neolibs pushing for an end to fee-for-service (ie: not gatekept for care like private insurers or DCEs, who make higher profits by withholding care).

TheIncredulousHulk
Sep 3, 2012

It is always weird to take a gander at other forums when they're het up about cspam and see this place characterized as delusional online communists blithely insisting that posting will usher in the revolution, rather than mostly depressed people coping with unfolding societal collapse our system has directly produced and is constitutionally incapable of averting

spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle

TheIncredulousHulk posted:

It is always weird to take a gander at other forums when they're het up about cspam and see this place characterized as delusional online communists blithely insisting that posting will usher in the revolution, rather than mostly depressed people coping with unfolding societal collapse our system has directly produced and is constitutionally incapable of averting

I'm too depressed to attend Wakandacon this year

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005



oh yah, lol: unions are putting their retirees in medicare advantage plans if retirees want union-paid health with their pensions:



some of the union MA plans are better than what the plebes get, though, like coverage out of state & wider provider networks.

holefoods
Jan 10, 2022

thank you bernie avatar gifter I feel like a real goon now

spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle

Willa Rogers posted:

bookmarks dump

Direct contracting entities:

Joe Biden Is Privatizing Medicare

Seniors’ Medicare Benefits Are Being Privatized Without Consent:

Medicare Direct Contracting Demo Garners Critics and Defenders:

Liz Fowler was Max Baucus's chief of staff & she's credited with writing most of the ACA, then was hired by Obama to oversee it at CMS. She's a former Blue Cross lobbyist who has vowed to get rid of traditional Medicare by 2030: "If we reach our goal of moving 100% of traditional Medicare beneficiaries into [accountable care] relationships by 2030, 100% of traditional Medicare payments will be tied to alternative payment models."

She sucks.

Physicians Slam Industry Push to 'Fix'—Not End—Medicare Privatization Scheme

Congress 'Asleep at the Switch' as Biden Continues Trump-Era Ploy to Privatize Medicare



Critiques of Medicare Advantage:

Stop the Medicare “Advantage” Scam Before Medicare is Dead

The Dark History of Medicare Privatization

Medicare Advantage, Direct Contracting, And The Medicare ‘Money Machine,’ Part 1: The Risk-Score Game

Democrats Prepare to Privatize Medicare, Using Medicare Advantage as Their Opening Wedge (and New York Unions?)

Medicare Advantage Is a For-Profit Scam. Time to End It.

'Straight Up Fraud': Data Confirms Private Insurers Use Medicare Advantage to Steal Billions:

https://twitter.com/sangerkatz/status/1578748360366108675

The only members of congress really pushing this info out are jayapal & warren, although a bunch of house members have signed a Strongly Worded Letter about direct contracting.

Traditional Medicare is on the chopping block by both parties, and you'll hear & see (even on SA!) neolibs pushing for an end to fee-for-service (ie: not gatekept for care like private insurers or DCEs, who make higher profits by withholding care).
Social security is next

Life expectancy in the US is going to start plummeting as genx and then millennials reach retirement. I fully expect to work until I die since healthcare will be completely unaffordable without a full time job

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

speng31b posted:

one time i was trying to get a buddy who was in between jobs in an open slot at my current company, but my department didn't have budget so i recommended him to another department manager

heard later that manager had asked my friend in the interview "to whiteboard out how to make fizz buzz internet scale".

https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition

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TheIncredulousHulk
Sep 3, 2012

spacemang_spliff posted:

I'm too depressed to attend Wakandacon this year

Same. Going to Ruthkandacon instead

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