Yeah look up Kaiser Permenete, absolute leaders in the shit, they have contracts on a whole bunch of public employee health care too in Western States.

They also take from both ends, since they have some of the most overworked nurses and hospitals. They're unionized but almost every contract negotiation ends up in a strike.

All the rule does is enshrine a “legitimate” profit margin for insurers.

Ding ding ding.

It's almost as if the ACA was an insider bill that was accepted by the entire industry because it allowed them to reset the economics of the business without one insurer feeling like they were taking a loss.

The vast majority of the ACA is literally about risk portfolio balancing between private companies.

The regulations on profit essentially changed the game and is why most insurance companies are now vertically integrated with pharmacies, concierge medicine, or even entire medical systems. It's the only way you can charge more for insurance without having to rebate out is by capturing your own payouts which allows you to keep MLR.

• Year 1: You pay $100 for insurance and insurance pays $80 for your meds to the insurance company pharmacy.
• Year 2: You pay $105 for insurance and insurance pays $84 for your meds to the insurance company pharmacy.

Creative accounting. That's why every insurance company makes special pharamcy benefits rules for the in house pharmacy and spams you with "switch your prescription to Optum RX"

I don't think people understand the why of "critical support" here.

When people say "critical support of Assad", they are not saying "I want to live under the Assad regime" or "I agree with Assad's politics".

They are saying there is no alternative to Assad that is capable of resisting American imperialism to the same degree AND has good politics.

Copying my other comment buried in this thread:

As ostensibly a “left unity” site, the problem is that tailism means two things at once:

1. The denial of the vanguard as exalted (which is fine)
2. The capitulation to the “tail” of the revolution (e.g. catering to fascists) (which is bad)

Beyond that it’s very much ML specific language that most people here don’t actually understand.

The Lion of Damascus is the best opthamologist in Moscow.

Critical support of Assad has critically collapsed now that he's a nonplayer. So it goes.

Yeah this is the biggest example of why the "pro-Luigi" adventurists are wrong. The biggest moron in Congress agrees with your theory of change. Take a good look in the mirror.

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It's actually incredibly strange because this is quite literally the easiest country in the world to dome someone important in, our firearms laws are part of our neocolonialism scheme that we force on our neighbors (Mexico).

Americans have all the means to do this, they simply do not because the control scheme is too powerful. It ultimately doesn't matter what leftist framework you take broadly whether it's anarchism or ML. A successful strategy looks roughly the same and its ideological underpinnings are roughly the same.

At the end of the day the position is quite literally to wage a war the rest is just tactics.

There's another post outside this one that compares him to Willem van Spronsen, an actual anarchist, who as part of his attack laid out the clear anarchist principles that lead him to firebomb the ICE Detention center in Tacoma in 2019. Literal brainworms.

real libposting hours.

Counterpoint hexbear was never good.

I think people are taking this as “Don’t talk about the shooting anymore and do a personal growth because you’re problematic” which isn’t it at all.

Honestly it's a fair read TBH. A lot of the "he's hot" shit is because people don't have anything else new or good to post about this but want to keep posting.