phdepressed

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[–] phdepressed 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We're also talking about a state election not nationwide. This should be an apples to oranges thing in terms of spending.

[–] phdepressed 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Think the point is that so much money shouldn't be available to spend on politics like this. This was more money than the 2000 presidential campaign by either side (and even then people were talking about how campaign finance was broken).

[–] phdepressed 3 points 1 week ago

Cory Booker just filibustered for 25h against the social security and medicare/aid cuts.

[–] phdepressed 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

If all his at least more recent kids are IVF as rumored then I would entirely expect him to select for XY embryos because it is "manlier" or some such bs. Anyway as each kid is a separate 50% chance for XX and XY it is still quite possible for this to occur naturally just low probability to occur in a row and we know nothing about whether any miscarriages have occurred to his "partners".

[–] phdepressed 4 points 1 week ago

You really have to walk a line between being informed and mood being affected. Lemmy and occasional comedian rants on YouTube work for me.

I don't do TV news at all.

[–] phdepressed 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're a lot better in terms of tracking. No white out, backdating, loss in natural disaster. Better privacy as who looks is logged and requires note of reason for a non-provider to look. Tracking helps bill you yes but it can also help fight if records don't match.

Even if records can't be directly imported across systems it can be sent a lot faster and easier which is important to efficient, effective care. If you stay within a given hospital/provider system integration works pretty dang well.

Paper records are worse in many ways getting rid of them was a big push of the ACA for a reason. Obama admin did choose implementation before integration at the time but that is a reform to what exists you don't have to reinvent the wheel so to speak.

The insurance dildo is a mostly separate issue from ehr.

[–] phdepressed 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] phdepressed 5 points 1 week ago

*facade

Think that mask dropped a while ago. He used to have a PR/management team that would stop the stupid shit he'd say from becoming public or affecting the actual businesses. He fired them around the Twitter takeover iirc and that's when we've all been able to easily see how stupid and bigoted he actually is.

[–] phdepressed 12 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Elon just sold Twitter to xAI for 33B, Reddit bastards can probably do similar. Some dumbfuck at Google or Microsoft will probably buy it.

[–] phdepressed 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Put in container, let cool, place container in trash. Empty jars or bottles are common options.

[–] phdepressed 2 points 1 week ago

Social programs only exist to the extent they do as a wealth subsidy. Paying so low or scheduling hours such that people are on government benefits is subsidizing what the wealthy should be paying people. Medicare and Medicaid are ways to give money to middlemen instead of just directly paying for care. Until Biden they literally weren't allowed to negotiate prices as every other form of health insurance does. All of these are bullshit concepts. Student loans aren't even run by the government just paid by us while a third party servicer reaps the money and as you note shouldn't exist. All developed countries do miles better in all these areas than the US.

[–] phdepressed 39 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Electronic health records when used appropriately are miles better than paper. More than half the article talks about the benefits before noting the two problems that paper does not solve. Which is crossing records from one system to another and the bloat that has been added as different specialties need to input different things. There will always be room for improvement but saying EHRs are a problem fully neglects that they are still a massive improvement.

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