The insurance system does not work in the medical field, it would never work because insurance is for managing risks that are unknown, like a house flooding or your car getting hit in an intersection.

In medical "insurance" it is often dealing with known issues, and the insurance system is just not set up to deal with preventative care, annual check ups, mammograms, blood tests, or pre-existing conditions. It would be like trying to use car insurance to pay for an oil change, which is just as ridiculous as it sounds in your head.

That's exactly why the term "insurance" should be used when discussing a single payer system, it's not really insurance, it should be a collective action group that works together with the medical community to find a middle ground where hospitals can still exist and pay wages to their staff, the people can get the medical care they need without getting thrown into poverty for daring to get sick, and the government benefits from having a healthier population as a whole.

Too bad theres way too much money in the short term in keeping this all private, and having a sicker population, so we have decades of insurance company propaganda to work against, and a huge population of people that don't understand that by doing single payer health care your taxes would go up, but you also wouldn't be paying out the nose for medical insurance & medical care (because they don't cover anything). Also think of a world where your health care isn't beholden to your employment, all the different choices you'd make in your life.

No fucking duh it's political, she is an a political post, you are in a political post. Not all politics is bad, some of it is about finding a way to get the government to actually help people in need

I have some kudzu i could sell you

Because she's friends with tons of antivaxxers on fb or in real life and is saving face

I honestly use it as a passive aggressive "hey it's been a week and I haven't heard from you, am I still being considered." email.

He absolutely still can, his voting bloc is full of low information voters that just want validation for the racist/misogynistic hate they feel

I just refer to them as cultists, because that's what they've become. Especially once they adorned themselves with their sanctimonious ear patches to become one step closer to the visage of their one true Don

Different timescale; Average income is annual, and rent is monthly

When people show you who they are, believe them.

That's the joke.

Hannibal Lecturn*

Experienced this at a wal mart a few months ago when me and my wife went to grab a pregnancy test. It was locked along with all of the condoms and lube, had to talk to 3 different workers to find someone that even knew where the key was, after a half hour of going from person to person and no one in the slight bit interested in actually helping me, I gave up and got one from the cvs down the street, no locks no fuss. Confused the shit out of me, don't they want us having tons of kids?

If there is one universal truth for US Politics, and a majority of corporations as well, is that they all woefully underpay for IT

you can't. they can.

Is this a new version of "slamming" someone?

Amen, same state where the governor is stalling a special election for an open US representative position because the district is left leaning

"With possible exemptions for allies"

You get walls? Cubicles are last century, now they just have long rows of desks so that you have no privacy or room for personal effects.

Please tell me this is reality, getting so sick of everyone here complaining about cruz, then showing up in droves to vote him in to own the libs

Spoken like a short man :P

In all seriousness though, you should thank them for bringing it up, the sooner the better for you to realize what they think matters and if they are shallow about that, there are likely other things as well. So good for you to learn early and move on to someone who will appreciate you as you are.