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Anastasis

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  1. I know that this is just a bit, but the remaining is accounted for by different types of care facilities and services, DME, dental, home health, other professional services.
  2. Total healthcare expenditures in this country break down at something like facilities/hospitals 30%, physician and clinical services 20%, drug spend 10%, benefit administrative costs including both public and private coverage 7.5%.
  3. CMS director would need a secret service detail, apparently.
  4. How about we start with the taxpayers that fund the vast majority of the foundational and a good portion of the translational research that then gets monetized by Pharma? That $20k prostate cancer drug, yeah that doesn't exist without the US taxpayer. But we don't get to realize any return on that investment. We do get, otoh, to pay higher premiums as result of the risk share. But sure, UCLA gets a piece. WTF? Totally nonsensical shit. We need to fundamentally turn the whole system over. Can't just fuck around with one component.
  5. I mean, this is a board that celebrated a drug-addled pedophile because he hated tow trucks, so nobody should be shocked.
  6. The components of the healthcare delivery system are providers, facilities, pharma, payers (which includes government, employers, and insurers). The entire system needs to be scrapped and built over from scratch. Too many entrenched interests for that though, like 18% of GDP. Any meaningful re-visioning of the healthcare delivery and financing system is politically dead on arrival.
  7. Someone's gonna need to bump the healthcare policy thread for this convo.
  8. Apparently the 2025 motto is going to be "stack the bodies, figure out the details later."
  9. Homeowners and auto insurance CEOs on deck. Uh, anyone got a good stock tip on some publicly trader personal security firms. This is gonna spiral out.
  10. Private security details for errbody.
  11. Wait until you get a mass murder of an HR department. That’s when the real love will flow forth.
  12. It's all reacting to fast moving information, but doesn't read like a pro to me. I did like that notion of a bolt action 9mm handgun, but maybe that was a reaction to the novelty. If it's a hitman, it seems like a very unprepared one. I wouldn't hunt with one of my suppressed rifles without having a reasonable number of rounds down range to confirm the setup.
  13. Police report 3 casings and 3 unfired 9mm rounds found at the scene. I think this supports the notion that the shooter was using an semi auto with either a homemade can (as @locodos suggested) or some other sub optimal set up (no nielsen device). See 4:10 mark
  14. Racking talk not going away, but if this was a pro, I think that he would have the right hardware setup to cycle suppressed reliably. He has to cycle it for every shot. If its a bolt action, pro; semi-auto failing to cycle, amateur. Who knows.
  15. I take this back. Watched the video a few more times and this is certainly not "virtually identical". Appears his racking motion in more in line with a semi-auto that is failing to cycle.
  16. Agree that the video is not totally clear, but if you watching the racking motion in the video and compare it to the motion used in the youtube video on the B&T, it is virtually identical. He tilts it and racks it every time he shoots it. Could be failure to cycle an autoloader based on using subsonic rounds, but the racking motion would generally be different. I think that Brian got it right earlier. We'll find out eventually.
  17. I am working under the assessment offered upthread that the gun was a BT bolt action integrally suppressed handgun. The video is 100% compatible with that assessment, including the shooter working the bolt. But we could certainly find out that that was not the weapon used.
  18. If so this will be very easy to trace, assuming it was not smuggled into the country.
  19. It's a $2300 gun and subject to ATF approval to purchase. Assuming he didn't get it off the black market (unlikely imo), we're talking a few months on the waitlist and jumping through the ATF hoops. It is probably a relatively easy purchase to trace. Can't imagine there are a lot of these in circulation, niche gun, limited imports.
  20. In this situation, a manually cycled suppressed 9mm with subsonic rounds would be extremely quiet.
  21. Looks like a 100% targeted killing. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12/04/nyregion/brian-thompson-uhc-ceo-shot Live Updates: Police Hunt for Gunman After UnitedHealthcare C.E.O. Killed in Midtown Manhattan The executive, Brian Thompson, was killed in what the police described as a “brazen targeted attack” outside a hotel where the company was holding an investor meeting.
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