LakeLivin
Armchair Quarterback
Before you break my heart.In the name of love?
Before you break my heart.In the name of love?
Before you break my heart.
Was at the airport for over 12 hours yesterday into this morning and now have to go back, wish me luck
Yup, I’m a pilot and have seen it 100 times and love it
Girl unresponsive 3 months after crash caused by suspect in Trump assassination attempt
For the first time, we're hearing from the mother of the 6-year-old girl who was seriously hurt in a car crash in Martin County in September.www.wptv.com
Now this is interesting. I don't know how they're going to stretch this, because all evidence seems like it's quite a stretch.
TLDR: The 2nd assassination attempt on the orange guy caused the police to shut down roads. A driver was distracted (apparently, she was trying to pick up a water bottle that had fallen beneath her seat) and caused an accident, not expecting the road to be shut down. This accident put a little girl in a (currently) 3 month coma. They're trying to charge the would-be assassin (Routh) with attempted murder of the little girl.
Oh, and the accident happened 35 minutes AFTER Routh was taken into custody.
The minute she admitted to reckless driving, that case was over. What a waste of resources.
Yeah, like I said, I don’t know how they’re going to argue Routh was responsible here. I know there are situations where if someone gets injured or dies while a crime is committed (like say the shock of a bank robbery gives someone a fatal heart attack), the person committing the crime would be held responsible for the death. So I guess the argument would be if Routh hadn’t tried to assassinate Agent Orange, the roads would have never been shut down, thus the accident wouldn’t have occurred, and the girl wouldn’t be in a coma.
But as you said, the other driver admitted she was distracted, and the accident occurred well after Routh was in custody, so it’s a stretch to hold him responsible. If we’re going to allow a Rube Goldberg, chain of responsibility like that, the simple act of running in the park could get you a murder charge. After all, what if you run too close to a tree, that happens to be housing a beehive, and those bees then sting a nearby officer that has a deadly bee allergy?
Was at the airport for over 12 hours yesterday into this morning and now have to go back, wish me luck
I thought Charlotte was an ok airport. Atlanta was awful in my traveling days.I hope it wasn't Charlotte. Our airport sucks
Of course it is. The medical insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies, and healthcare providers, who do most of the lobbying, are raking in profits while care and costs for citizens go up and up while coverage goes down. Why wouldn't they want to protect the status quo?Finally caught up after a week or so off of HF 26......not political, just an observation about health care and health insurance costs.
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To me the lobbying issue is more about protecting the status quo.....
There's varying levels of awful in my experience. Charlotte's meh at best, but simply bad at worst. Atlanta and O'Hare take the cake for shitshows that I've been in and out of though.I thought Charlotte was an ok airport. Atlanta was awful in my traveling days.
We're in agreement about the lobbying thing.United Healthcare's stock was at about $32 when ACA started in 2010 and their profit was about $20B. The stock is now $506 and their annual profit is $90B. A lot of the "regulatory" and "Mandates" stuff is a smokescreen that companies and politicians use to try and misdirect people.
Sure, I don't disagree with that, but many of these things are profit driven. Let me give you two examples. I've been on statin drugs for 26 years. Over that time, I've had to switch twice because insurance said so as one became "cheaper" than the other. It wasn't medically driven. My doctor, then has had to take the time and effort to re-do the paperwork and I had to get extra blood tests after 6 months (thus driving more paperwork and costs) because he had to make sure it was working and not having adverse effects. More paperwork, more bureaucracy that was 100% profit driven.We're in agreement about the lobbying thing.
My comments about regulatory impact comes from a variety of places. My mom was a pharmacist. My dad was in the pharmaceutical business (primarily the wholesaler side of things). But I've had extensive conversations with my GP, an ER doctor, a urologist, a radiologist, even an oral surgeon. All have said that the regulatory environment, the mandates, and the compliance paperwork is egregious, time consuming and super expensive. It takes medical staff away from doing medical things.
I agree, there are many factors, but when profit is involved in the medical field, it will always lead to higher premiums and lower coverage. If Ore-ida increases prices and changes from a 32oz bag to a 26oz bag to help profits, it's not a big deal. When medical providers do, it is a big deal and leads to ethical issues. We've seen that with United Healths auto-rejection of claims and more egregiously, Perdue Pharma's down right criminal approach to Oxycotin.Know that I'm not defending any of insurers practices. I'm merely pointing out that the profit motive is one of many factors in driving up health insurance and health care costs.