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Sawbonz

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  1. I have to say there is something to be said for the head of government to be chosen by the legislature. No playing the blame game. If a party has a majority they have a legitimate mandate and if it takes a coalition to elect a PM the parties have to work together. If you suck, you all get thrown out and try again
  2. There is an NPR show called Left Right and Center and they did sort of a post mortem of how and why the dems predictions were so wrong and they came to a consensus that the democratic consultants completely misread the democratic voting bloc with respect to immigration, especially among minorities and Hispanics specifically. They were basically tone deaf to what the numbers were telling them and stuck w the messaging of the more left aspect of the party machine.
  3. I have never taken the time to try it, but it looks like in Texas at least if the cash price you pay for a covered service is less than the in network allowable, you can submit the receipt to the insurance company and have them apply it towards your out-of-pocket
  4. PSA if you need imaging and either do not have insurance or have a high deductible look at this company https://radiologyassist.com/ I send a lot of patients to them and they are amazingly cheap. They shop around for cheaper cash price for you. Since you pay cash you probably can’t count it toward your deductible, but I have had patients whose “allowable” by their insurance company is 2500 for an MRI get one for 300 or so. I also use it if I feel an MRI is warranted and the insurance company denies it. Patient then can appeal the denial based on the positive findings
  5. Is that your portion or the employer contribution? Individual, Individual + spouse or family?
  6. Do you have a link to carriers who offer this? I have not found any catastrophic policies that meet the criteria to avoid the irs penalty of not carrying coverage; if I had the option I would do this in a heartbeat (note high deductible plan ≠ catastrophic plan) the faith based cost sharing plans are exemptions to the ACA, not actual insurance policies, and the reason I went away from them is you don’t have legal protections for catastrophic events (multitrauma, severe cardiac events cancer etc)
  7. I haven’t done pushups in forever. This thread has inspired me. I just did two and with excellent form. Don’t know whether to be proud or cry in shame
  8. My only concern in politics is reducing the federal deficit!! That's why I have exclusively voted for the party that has not only never reduced spending in my lifetime, but has drastically cut taxes over and over!! I am a conservative god dammit!!!
  9. Did some googling on alcohol and found a couple of depressing factoids standard pour of wine is 5 oz so for ethanol equivalents you are talking 1 “drink” is a 12 oz beer, 5 oz glass of wine, and 1 1/2 oz of 90 proof distilled spirit. Not very much at about 1 1/2 drinks ethanol starts fucking with insulin secretion and causing insulin resistance. Also ethanol metabolism pathway releases free radicals = oxidative stress = local tissue and DNA damage Binge drinking is much worse in terms of oxidative stress and insulin resistance
  10. So you vote for people who don’t share the positions you allegedly support?
  11. So you don’t vote?
  12. lol. There is literally no one you have an opportunity to vote for who shares those “positions”.
  13. Personally not attracted to frontal bossing and prognathism but hey to each their own
  14. That’s a shitload if hGH and test bezos too, probably
  15. How many Oscar nominations did that get?
  16. Never heard of the dude. Never seen the chick in a movie Edit quick google shows she was a child actress with a “talent scout” for a mother so she’s probably seen some shit.
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