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Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleThe Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight for an evening of good cheer, conversation and drinks. Stop by if you can.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the back room of the pub. We start at 8:00pm.

Chapters of Living Liberally are all over the place…if you can’t make it to the Seattle chapter, stop by another chapter near you.

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  1. 1

    Say, any of you liberals remember “bending the cost curve downward”?

    What a fucking joke that was.

    MoneyWatch
    As anger at UnitedHealthcare boils over, Americans pay more than ever for health insurance

    Health insurance costs are far outpacing inflation, leaving more consumers on the hook each year for thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket expenses. At the same time, some insurers are rejecting nearly 1 in 5 claims. That double whammy is leaving Americans paying more for coverage yet sometimes feeling like they’re getting less in return, experts say.
    …
    The anger may be rooted in fears that unexpected medical costs could prove financially ruinous, as well as concerns that essential care could be denied by an insurer, putting health and well-being at risk even for those who have health insurance.

    Some of those anxieties are well-founded: The top cause of bankruptcy in the U.S. is health care-related debt, underscoring the financial stresses that can stem from high medical costs.

    Welfare Queen YLB was so proud of Barack for fucking up pre-ACA health care in the United States. Pre-ACA health care was satisfactory to 5 of every 6 Americans.

    Now Obamacare will help ensure that Welfare Queen YLB’s two fucked kids will never, ever be able to leave her basement. Those fucked kids are a recurring revenue stream to Welfare Queen YLB and her husband.

  2. 2

    @1 Sounds like an argument for national health insurance to me. Europeans and Canadians don’t worry about medical bankruptcy, and they’re getting better health outcomes, too.

  4. 4

    Kimberly Guilfoyle isn’t Donnie Jr.’s main sqeeze anymore, but now she gets to be ambassador to Greece (if the Senate confirms her). Meanwhile, there are rumors Trump will tap Kari Lake for ambassador to Mexico. They’re already groaning in Mexico; and in a lot of corporate boardrooms, too, I imagine.

  5. 5

    @ 2

    @1 Sounds like an argument for national health insurance to me.

    Sounds like an admission that Obamacare is a failure to me. If Obamacare worked you would still have erectile function, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  7. 7

    @6 Of course Republicans are for pre-existing conditions. They all own stock in predatory insurance companies.

  8. 8

    “pre-ACA healthcare”

    In August 2008, about six months before debate began in Washington on what would become the Affordable Care Act, 82 percent of Americans were so dissatisfied with the U.S. health care system they wanted it overhauled, according to The Commonwealth Fund, which commissioned the poll.

    We were worried not only about how we personally were being affected by the inefficiency and high cost of our uniquely American health care system, we were worried about how our country as a whole was being affected.

    And for good reason.

    50 million were uninsured

    https://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/the-good-old-days-before-obamacare/

    dumbfuck’s gonna dumbfuck

    Oh and how many red states signed on to expanded medicaid?

    https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/medicaid-expansion-is-a-red-and-blue-state-issue/

    All save for 9.. Freedumb indeed.

  9. 9

    Donald Trump is already president.

    He’s doing a shitty job too. Everything good that’s happened since the election is not due to his cresit. And well, how can he be doing a great job because he’ll be blaming Biden for everything bad happening in the next many years to come.

  13. 13

    Cowardly chick with a dick goes after a woman.

    Mary Margaret Olohan
    @MaryMargOlohan

    United States Capitol Police on Nancy Mace’s attacker:

    “Tonight, the United States Capitol Police (USCP) arrested a person who is accused of assaulting a U.S. Representative.

    Just before 6:00 p.m., the Member of Congress’ office reported an incident in the Rayburn House Office Building. House Division officers, and agents with the Threat Assessment Section, tracked down the suspect. After an investigative interview, officers arrested the suspect, 33-year-old James McIntyre of Illinois. McIntyre is facing a charge for Assaulting a Government Official (18 USC 111).

    The Rayburn House Office Building was open to the public at the time of the incident. McIntyre went through security screening prior to entering the Congressional buildings.”
    9:01 PM · Dec 10, 2024

  15. 15

    Fox News has its underwear in a knot about Biden pardoning Hunter. But we won’t hear a peep out of them when Trump pardons all the January 6th people on January 20th.

  16. 16

    @13 At first I thought it might be a disgruntled ex-employee (she has a lot of those), but it seems to be someone of a class of persons she discriminates against. That, of course, is not an excuse for vigilante behavior, as Daniel Penny can attest.

  17. 17

    Oops, Kari Lake missed out on the Mexico gig, that’s going to someone who actually knows what he’s doing. Poor Kari is still on the hunt for a patronage job. Or anything that will pay the rent, really.

  18. 18

    @1 Republicans have how long and made how many promises to fix what you claim is broke or a problem.

    Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus touches more than just women whom die at the hands of the groomers.

  19. 19

    Hearts broken? I don’t think so.

    The Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus doesn’t break hearts it kills them.

    https://www.recordnet.com/story/news/crime/2024/12/10/lodi-man-shane-winans-charged-in-killing-of-estranged-wife-nicole-salon-envy-owner/76902184007/

    No CEO. Just your common death cause by the Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus, although Liugi apparently liked to flirt with the girls. Done girl out there is lucky he could be going to jail, save a bitches life!

    Now don’t get all snowflaky about this.

  20. 20

    Health insurance costs are far outpacing inflation, leaving more consumers on the hook each year for thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket expenses.

    We should ask why.

    One big reason might be insurers like UHG buying up practices and providers.

    In an effort to drive higher profits, raise executive compensation, increase bonus payouts, pay for more NetJets subscriptions and Cocaine/Hookers, without exceeding MLR (medical loss ratio) caps requiring 85% of premiums be payed out to providers, the largest insurers have been buying up or partnering with hospitals, clinics, labs, and practices.

    This allows them to shift profit away from payer and onto to payer-owned providers in key categories of high volume/low cost services. By externalizing those profits to a “non-insurance” and unregulated subsidiary they can maximize profit without exceeding MLR.

    Of course this drives much higher costs. Because naturally the payer-owned providers are preferred tier 1 providers that patients are driven to seek with “lower” copays. And naturally these “excellent” providers are granted exceptionally favorable, and extremely profitable reimbursement by the insurance company who just coincidentally happens to own them.

    So, since there is no upper limit on “costs”, costs rise dramatically to drive profit. And the insurance company simply raised premiums.

    https://healthcareuncovered.substack.com/p/the-dirty-trick-health-insurers-are

    https://pnhp.org/news/insurers-avoid-loss-ratio-limits-by-shifting-profits-to-provider-subsidiaries/

    https://pnhp.org/news/the-avaricious-ascent-of-unitedhealth-group/

  21. 21

    @13

    Multiple attendees attest that the arrested person shook Rep Mace’s hand and said “Protect trans rights.”

    Who would have thought the woman who graffitied her own sidewalk would lie about an assault for publicity.

    The suspect is not trans but an advocate for Foster Kids. The event was open to the public. A celebration of the anniversary of the passing of the Child Welfare Law.

  22. 22

    @21,

    By calling him a liar you made Trump get elected.
    🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

  23. 23

    @ 21

    Multiple attendees attest that the arrested person shook Rep Mace’s hand and said “Protect trans rights.”

    You really should read what multiple “witnesses” attested that Officer Dennis Wilson did to Michael Brown:

    https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/doj_report_on_shooting_of_michael_brown_1.pdf

    My fave was the dude who said Wilson stood over Brown’s genuflecting, compliant body and fired multiple rounds into the back of his skull.

    Here’s a summary for those with a Welfare Queen YLB-like level of comprehension:

    Ferguson witnesses admit they lied to grand jury

    WJLA
    https://wjla.com › news › nation-world › ferguson-witnes…
    Jul 9, 2015 — Testimony from witness 35 might have helped lead to an indictment of Officer Wilson, testifying that Michael Brown was, quote, “on his knees,” …

    To those who call a chick with a dick a “woman”, it’s not much of a stretch to call an intentional elbow luxation a “handshake”.

  24. 24

    21,

    She falsely claimed once that George Stephanoplous assaulted her.

    It wasn’t plausible. She has too much of a reach advantage. Most toddlers have a similar reach advantage.

  25. 25

    23,

    Having been caught (twice in the same young thread), the lying troll wishes to change the subject.

    I’d love to stay. But since this can only mean one thing, that the degenerate troll will now shift to a lurid examination of other men’s anuses and rectums, I’m out. It’s hard to visit HA when it has become such a pointless exploration of one single troll’s lies and perversions.

  26. 26

    It’s hard to visit HA when it has become such a pointless exploration of one single troll’s lies and perversions.

    Dumbfuck says he’s filthy rich and yet he posts stupid comments all day and night on a blog on which nobody blogs anymore.

    What a fucking loser.

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