This feels like a jock from a rival high school telling the local team who to pick for their captain. I have trouble believing they're gonna take marching orders from any Senator, much less Rand Paul
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Cradle by Will Wight is the king of endlessly re-read-able series, IMO. A young man in a world of magical martial arts sets out on a quest to save his home from foretold destruction, and overcome an initial disability to become one of the strongest people in the world (necessary to save his home when the time comes).
Hard to explain what's so incredibly compelling about this series, but if you like fantasy (particularly progression fantasy or cultivation stories aka xianxia) I urge you to give it a try; I highly doubt you will regret it. More re-read-able than Harry Potter, and without the casual misogyny (in a world of magical martial arts, women are just as capable, and dangerous, as men are) or obnoxious the-awful-status-quo-is-okay bullshit (but explaining this in any more detail would probably involve spoilers, so I won't).
Is it high art? No, it's fairly schlocky, but it's really fun to read, in a way that many other series fail to be, even really good ones like Red Rising or Stormlight. And while it doesn't end all wrapped up neatly in a perfect bow like, say, Mistborn (the trilogy, not the sequel series), it doesn't exactly fail to bring plotlines to satisfying conclusions.
If we've passed M4A, I'd like to think a ban on private equity in healthcare would already be on the books, but yeah, I agree with you.
Means Morning News covered this point, but what they said was notably different. This article never once mentions the reason this was being done: to bring private insurance payouts closer into line with Medicare ones, as part of a long-running effort to improve the cost efficiency of the healthcare system. So in that sense, this policy change isn't great.
This article goes out of its way to avoid mentioning government-run health insurance though, for some reason...
(Side note: the article isn't actually wrong that US doctors make way too fucking much money. In order to realize improved healthcare costs once we have passed M4A in this country, we're going to have to cut doctor compensation down to the bone. I would imagine this would be paired with debt relief for existing doctors, and the elimination of tuition at medical schools, a la Cuba, but the fact is that doctors cannot be pulling down salaries in the six to low-seven figures under M4A if it's going to work at all.)
·12 days agoAnd why wouldn't you drop the evidence into a fucking river within hours of leaving NYC?
This sucks
It looks bad. Dude had a gun, a silencer, and fake IDs.
Can't believe someone could simultaneously have a cool username like todd_bonzalez and still make such an incredibly cringe post
"Lindon pulled out a cannon."
Honestly, not even among the first 2500? Such a youngster.