I know you’re a jerk. That is not an assumption.
I know you’re a jerk. That is not an assumption.
Proves my point.
You prove nothing other than you’re a harassing turd.
I didn’t prove anything. You did.
No, your record is compiled and extensive Detector Dude. Your life is a turd on display.
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Sure.
I began to read the Russian Roulette article. Without commenting on the broader idea of “ergodicity”, I would note that the two scenarios the author initially compares are in fact not equivalent.
In the first scenario, there are 100 instances of an individual walking into the casino and betting a discrete $1000.
For the second scenario to be comparable, the single individual would need to enter the casino 100 different times, each time with a new $1000 in his pocket.
In that comparable scenario, the results would indeed be the same, because the two scenarios both start with the same amount of capital, divide it the same way, and contain the same conditions under which it is bet.
I will keep eeading, but that is an inauspicious start to an article. I will ignore it going forward.
UnitedHealth had it's worst day in like 10 years. Maybe shorting private health insurance companies is the play with a Sanders win almost guaranteed at this point
That is the narrative in a bunch of emails I opened this morning.
Seems like people are thinking that he actually has a shot at winning the presidency.
Here’s the thing: people are lazy, for the most part. A great many don’t even vote.
I would bet that a greater percentage of people with money vote, than of people without money.
It seems to me that in the USA, there are only a few people with money. Even if someone “owns a home” that is no guarantee of money, in fact it could mean debt.
People have mortgages, helocs, student loans, and CC debt—and apart from them, many are welfare cases, including a great many older people who may otherwise own their own home.
IF people with nothing to lose other than debt obligations vote, and if the votes are counted fairly, Bernie has a good shot—especially when combined with those who vote for him, yet have things to lose.
I am glad that I am positioned ok for either scenario—although of course therefore not positioned great for either. I might bias in a direction closer to the election.
Racket wrote:
UnitedHealth had it's worst day in like 10 years. Maybe shorting private health insurance companies is the play with a Sanders win almost guaranteed at this point
it is crazy to think of all the health insurance company stocks going to zero.
if the Ds sweep all three branches.
billions and billions wiped out.
United Health Care is my insurance provider. Covered $450,000 of paid treatment costs on $550,000+ billed. My cost $2,000 plus my monthly premium of $550. United Health Care provided me a cancer nurse that would call me monthly during treatment, which lasted nine months. I asked my endocrinologist friend how this would work under Medicare, and he said the costs would be substantially discounted; most of this on the pharmaceutical side. I was a profit center, so treated very well under the private plan. Once I retire I plan to purchase the Medicare supplemental plan with the best coverage since I will incur high costs even with annual monitoring (CT scans). I am sympathetic to those that get shut out of the system, or cannot/will not/do not know how to advocate for themselves.
Control of all 3 houses would be difficult, and would take at least a few years.
The question is, what would happen to the existing private market? Would it be outlawed?
Would you consider shorting certain stocks based on this news?
All eight indexes on our world watch list posted losses through February 24, 2020. The top performer is our own S&P 500 with a loss of 0.15%. China's Shanghai is in second with a loss of 0.62% and in third is Tokyo's Nikkei 225 with a loss of 1.14%. Coming in last is London's FTSE 100 with a loss of -5.11%.
Maserati wrote:
Control of all 3 houses would be difficult, and would take at least a few years.
The question is, what would happen to the existing private market? Would it be outlawed?
Would you consider shorting certain stocks based on this news?
yeah I should have been more temperate.
I used to be paid to short US companies. I learned never to do it. So no, I will not be shorting anything.
In the real world I suspect we'll have a dual health care market...where everyone pays some kind of premium for government health insurance but whoever wants to can buy private health insurance too.
I think European countries often have something like that.
If you have 15 minutes watch the video of Ole Peters. It's a TED talk (*shudder*) but lays out the theory nicely. Bottom line: Just b/c the numbers appear to work for an ensemble, doesn't mean they will benefit the individual over time. Explains a lot of things in the world--economic and otherwise.
Also his website is worth a look:
Just a quick reality check :
https://acton.org/publications/transatlantic/2019/08/27/americas-poorest-are-richer-most-average-europeans-studyagip wrote:
In the real world I suspect we'll have a dual health care market...where everyone pays some kind of premium for government health insurance but whoever wants to can buy private health insurance too.
I think European countries often have something like that.
Buttigieg got my attention by proposing something like this. I thought it made sense at first, but then I read an article that changed my mind.
Basically the gist was that the Medicare portion will pay the providers less than what the private insurance companies will due to the presumed greater bargaining position of the government. To make up for this, the doctors/hospitals/pharmaceuticals/etc will try to make up for their reduced revenues by increasing the costs on the private side. As folks with private insurance see their costs continually rising, they will flee to Medicare. Eventually everyone except the high rollers will be insured by Medicare.
Who knows?
Colin Sahlman runs 1:45 and Nico Young runs 1:47 in the 800m tonight at the Desert Heat Classic
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