miley_cyrus

No that is a huge failure. That is perhaps the biggest failure of Obamacare.

That means I, as someone with healthy lifestyle habits, has to pay largely the same premium as someone who smokes, is obese, and doesn't exercise. And sure enough, life expectancy in the US immediately stalled after the law's implementation: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/usa/uni.... Exactly what economics would predict would happen.

Way too many examples to list all of them, but here is the easiest: Mamdani used the phrase "seizing the means of production" during a live streamed conference of the Young Democratic Socialists of America in February 2021.

https://www.aol.com/news/zohran-mamdani-chilling-call-seizin...

That's outrageously false: every Republican voted against ACA, and Republicans for years campaigned on trying to overturn it.

How about not encourage and exacerbate illegal immigration? https://mayor.lacity.gov/news/mayor-bass-issues-executive-di...

This group is well known for bias, over and over through the years. Nothing they report should be taken at face value.

"A considerable amount of financial support for the Center comes from labor unions: According to federal reports, over the last 15 years it has received nearly $1.2 million in labor funding."

"The IRLE’s highest-profile researcher is Michael Reich, who co-chairs its Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics. Reich made a name for himself at a young age co-founding the Union for Radical Political Economics, with the stated goal of supporting “public ownership of production and a government-planned economy.”"

https://us.fundsforngos.org/news/nonprofit-accuses-uc-berkel... https://epionline.org/release/biased-uc-berkeley-research-te... https://epionline.org/release/biased-uc-berkeley-research-te...

This group is well known for bias, over and over through the years. Nothing they report should be taken at face value.

"A considerable amount of financial support for the Center comes from labor unions: According to federal reports, over the last 15 years it has received nearly $1.2 million in labor funding."

"The IRLE’s highest-profile researcher is Michael Reich, who co-chairs its Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics. Reich made a name for himself at a young age co-founding the Union for Radical Political Economics, with the stated goal of supporting “public ownership of production and a government-planned economy.”"

https://us.fundsforngos.org/news/nonprofit-accuses-uc-berkel... https://epionline.org/release/biased-uc-berkeley-research-te... https://epionline.org/release/biased-uc-berkeley-research-te...

"Paul Pelosi, 83, sold 30,000 shares of Google (GOOGL) stock in December 2022, just one month before the tech giant was sued over alleged antitrust violations."

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/deceptive-tactic-nancy-pelosi...

> Since the laws preventing members of Congress from trading on information they receive as part of their duties, you can't say that the Pelosi's have violated any securities laws.

Oh yes, you can:

"Paul Pelosi, 83, sold 30,000 shares of Google (GOOGL) stock in December 2022, just one month before the tech giant was sued over alleged antitrust violations." https://finance.yahoo.com/news/deceptive-tactic-nancy-pelosi...

Michael Reich is well known to push politically motivated, biased "research studies": https://epionline.org/release/new-website-exposes-berkeley-l...

Anyone detect any activity on their servers as a consequence of this?

Meanwhile Biden just banned mining in one of the most uranium rich area of the US ... US loses again

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/us/politics/biden-grand-c...

If ACA is such a success story, then why is the US lifespan falling faster than any other developed country over the past few years?

There was of course a drop for COVID-19, but progress in life expectancy basically stalled after ACA was implemented, whereas life expectancy has kept growing in every other developed country.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2023/ameri...

And to be clear: "While opioids and gun violence have rightly seized the public’s attention, stealing hundreds of thousands of lives, chronic diseases are the greatest threat, killing far more people between 35 and 64 every year, The Post’s analysis of mortality data found."

How does that refute what I said?

Biden is undoing this: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/regulation/bidens....

In addition to adding regulations to our refrigerators, washing machines, stoves, etc. etc.

How about we dictate a price on whatever industry you happen to be in? Maybe your product cost billions of dollars to develop, but how about we force you to sell it to everyone for peanuts?

There is no logical reason that pharma should be on the receiving end of all this hate. Especially considering that their job is literally to save lives.

Not true: insulin is not a drug whose price is being negotiated here (https://www.jmcp.org/doi/full/10.18553/jmcp.2023.29.3.229). The drugs whose prices are being negotiated are the brand new ones, the ones that took billions of dollars to develop. Without the promise of a payoff, future R&D will be halted, and humanity won't get benefit from the new medicines.

So they spend billions of dollars doing R&D to develop a medicine and then can't sell any?

Sure, if you want much less innovation: "IRA means 40% reduction in new drugs over 10 years, report finds" https://bio.news/health/ira-impact-new-drugs-pharmaceutical-...

I have long advocated for this, and people always reject it out of hand!

I've been the founder who has been fired by his cofounder, and I've been the founder who has had to fire a cofounder. It was really terrible from both ways. Hope things get better for you!

He's saying it's not going to finance any "investments" - the extra money is just going to the unions.

"The judiciary fails when it hurts people or causes injustice ..."

Totally disagree. The judiciary should not make up law. They are 9 people who have not been elected, have life terms, and have zero accountability to the people. If there needs to be new law, that responsibility should fall on our elected representatives, in other words Congress.

This is the most one sided news article ever. There is no distinction between the securities act of 1933 and the securities act of 1934. Without presenting that, this article is willful disception.

"Given that giant warning sign, it's unclear why anyone would buy into a direct listing, and thus why any company would attempt one." - How does that follow?

Activists against the death penalty raise costs by frivolous litigation and then claim that the death penalty is too expensive. The same thing they've done with other things they don't like, e.g. nuclear power. It's circular logic.

In America, we have a war on merit.

This is gaslighting -- increased taxes without increasing spending might reduce inflation. But the IRA massively increased government spending, and government spending is a primary driver of inflation. [1]

1: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/fisc...

Raghu and I had desks next to each other when we were students - we all knew he was brilliant!