Posts by Anony Mous

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American Healthcare: How your system works

by Diogenesister in

canada has universal healthcare.

the consensus is that america never will.

can anyone explain why, please?

Anony Mous

@Jan:

Thing is Americans who have good insurance cover can still be refused treatment,

Not true. Unlike the EU/UK, hospitals cannot refuse to provide treatment due to lack of payment. I work in the upper echelons of a major healthcare system, unpaid treatment is a major headache.

can still go bankrupt

Anyone can go bankrupt, that’s a good thing as protections from creditors to garnish wages enter in when you are bankrupted. You do have to be pretty irresponsible to go bankrupt though over anything.

and can still die for example from lack of insulin.

Another partial myth. Most people die due to unreasonably rationing their insulin because of myths that are perpetuated about insulin. Almost all cases of insulin deaths are avoidable and parents have gone to jail for ultimately being stupid or abusive about it.

You, with few exceptions, can get very cheap insulin. Go to any vet and insulin is $25/bottle which would provide a human with 30 days of doses. This is the same insulin that was widely used until the early 2000s and still widely used in second and third world countries. If you need auto-injectors there are various open projects for 3D printing those, FDA regulation however prevents the general public from knowing about them. Importing animal derived insulin abroad is an option.

The primary problem right now is lack of human derived insulin, something that was marketed towards diabetics as somehow superior (in all but the rarest cases that is untrue) and Joe Biden recently made it so that insulin has a capped price (similar to EU style regulation), causing all but the largest manufacturers to exit the market both in the US and in the EU - the US market had been subsidizing EU consumption of the product, but the price caps are unreasonably low making even production infeasible which is causing a worldwide shortage and soon human insulin will likely become completely unavailable.

For about 90% of diabetics however (the people with adult onset type 2) proper diet and exercise would suffice.

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American Healthcare: How your system works

by Diogenesister in

canada has universal healthcare.

the consensus is that america never will.

can anyone explain why, please?

Anony Mous

Fact check: 12% of GDP is spent in the UK on healthcare, 18% of GDP is spend in the US on healthcare. As I already pointed out, the US has free government healthcare for low income (<$50k/person) households and many states have expanded access beyond that. With the exception of wealth diseases (heart and diabetes) outcomes are overall better in the US across the board.

So the US already spends more on government healthcare, when you break down what it is spent on R&D makes up much of that value in the US. More than 50% of new medicines in the world are funded by the US government.

At the end of November, a record 7.2 millionpatients in England were waiting for non-urgent medical treatment on the NHS, known as “elective” care. This spans diagnostic tests and scans, procedures such as hip and knee replacements, but also cardiac surgery, cancer treatment and neurosurgery.

More than half of those on the list had been waiting up to 18 weeks and about 400,000 patients had been waiting more than a year, according to data from NHS England.

To avoid joining a waiting list, more and more people are paying for their own private medical care or taking out health insurance.

In the second quarter of 2022, the number of patients paying directly for private hospital care increased 34% compared with the same period in 2019 to reach 67,000, according to the Private Healthcare Information Network, which collects data on UK private healthcare.

The figures revealed a 184% jump in the number of people paying privately for hip replacements over that period, a 153% increase in self-pay for knee replacements and a 42% rise in private cataract surgery.

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US North East filled with Smoke Hazardous breathing warnings!

by Fisherman in

if you live in the northeastern part of the us, the air is filled with smoke.

it is hard to breathe and the burning smell irritates your eyes and breathing.

it is coming from forrest fires thousands of acres in canada.

Anony Mous

It’s mostly over now. But it kind of looked like the end of the world for a while there, the sun and sky looked like blood at certain times, the sun was practically gone for 2 days. Like California, caused by years of severe government mismanagement of their forests by our northern neighbors.

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JWs view of Lord of the Rings VS Harry Potter

by serotonin_wraith in

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i'm sure this will vary between jw to jw, but their choices are:.

1) they won't watch/read either.. 2) they will only allow lotr, not hp.. 3) they will only allow hp, not lotr.. 4) they will allow both.. in my experience, 3 never happens and 2 happens the most.

with the similar theme of magic, the occult, fantasy and monsters, i wonder what lets them think one is okay and the other is not.

Anony Mous

Interesting, in most congregations I was in both were big no-no but adjacent congregations were fine as long as you kept quiet about. Then again, I remember HP was called out at the convention (not by name) for being dangerous and targeting children with spiritism.

How about comedies like Life of Brian or Religulous. They are making fun of common Christian narratives and I think that most people would have problems with those than whether or not fantasy/demons/magic is allowed.

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Did Russell Consider Himself a Messiah-Like Figure?

by Sea Breeze in

from this it is clearly seen that the editor and publisher of zion’s watch tower disavowed any claim to being individually, in his person, that “faithful and wise servant.” he never did claim to be such,” (“god’s kingdom of a thousand years has approached,” 1973, p. 346).. this contradicts watchtower december 1, 1919, p. 357 where the watchtower states russell did in fact claim to be the faithful and discreet slave.

“thousands of the readers of pastor russell’s writings believe that he filled the office of ‘that faithful and wise servant,’ and that his great work was giving to the household of faith meat in due season.

his modesty and humility precluded him from openly claiming this title, but he admitted as much in private conversation,” (watchtower, dec. 1, 1919, p. 357).. russell founder of the wts, called himself "god's mouthpiece" (wt 1906 july 15 p. 229) and stated that if didn't speak ... the stones would cry out.

Anony Mous

False humility is a typical sign of narcissists, sociopaths and psychopaths. Russell was credibly accused of swindling people and subsequently indicted for fraud. You can’t sell things like Miracle Wheat without selling yourself.

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Does the Governing Body already know that Jehovah (the name) came from Babylon the Great?

by Chevelle in

i'll start by stating the obvious... according to the watchtower, the catholic church is a huge part of babylon the great which is led by satan and his demons.

raymundus martini, a catholic monk (who "represents" babylon the great to some extent), woke up one day in the 13th century and decided to alter yhwh so it can be easily pronounced.

hence the spanish-ish version of yhwh was created... jehova... (sounds something like this in spanish: heh-o-va).

Anony Mous

@careful: the point is not that they do, the point is the hypocrisy especially given the things we now know from historical records, both about gods name and the original Christians. If you claim to be a ‘first century Christian’ then you should do things like first century Christianity, which is a lot closer to Judaism, very likely doesn’t use God’s name and doesn’t really have the same concept about the modern Christus. The fact is that they have taken most of third century Christianity (Catholicism) when it comes to canon together with a form of 19th century Protestantism (Millerism) but simultaneously rejecting the core tenets of all in an attempt to set them apart making themselves internally contradictory and incomprehensible.

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HENRIETTA M RILEY TRUST 33B006006 FBO ↳ WATCH TOWER BIBLE

by mutabor in

full text of "full filing" for fiscal year ending april 2022. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/386043103/202233369349100803/full.

Anony Mous

Interesting, they cashed out significant amount of money this year:

Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets - $4,704,150

Grants to all govts., orgs., and individuals - $4,671,510

Maintaining just $3M in the accounts.

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Does the Governing Body already know that Jehovah (the name) came from Babylon the Great?

by Chevelle in

i'll start by stating the obvious... according to the watchtower, the catholic church is a huge part of babylon the great which is led by satan and his demons.

raymundus martini, a catholic monk (who "represents" babylon the great to some extent), woke up one day in the 13th century and decided to alter yhwh so it can be easily pronounced.

hence the spanish-ish version of yhwh was created... jehova... (sounds something like this in spanish: heh-o-va).

Anony Mous

The JWs also use Babylon the Great’s biblical canon, despite knowing full well and even devoting entire articles in their rags to the church significantly editing out scriptures to fit their own dogma. If you want the scriptures from the “true” first Christians as they often claim to be extension from, they would include many, many Christian scripture written between 200BC-400AD that may be very problematic to explain literally and also torpedoes most of their own dogma.

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Is 1914 still a major belief in JW land ? Or has it been abandoned ?

by smiddy3 in

i just wonder about this topic as it is now 109 years since that date and what was expected to take place has never happened ..

Anony Mous

@Beth Sarim: just believe me, God told me so, and if you don’t believe me, that means you’re not a true believer. The evidence is so clear, only 1 guy in the 1890s figured it out and then he started a whole religion around it, the fact people joined a religion without any evidence is evidence that it’s true, because if it weren’t true, he couldn’t have figured it out.

The JW religion is true, because the JW religion tells me so - a synopsis of every argument from Fisherman and his clones.

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American Healthcare: How your system works

by Diogenesister in

canada has universal healthcare.

the consensus is that america never will.

can anyone explain why, please?

Anony Mous

@TonusOH: both New York and California and a few others like Massachusetts have systems like what you propose. There are 52 different states in the US, like EU states, they have a form of autonomy on these issues and each one has a different system.

And there is plenty of evidence of what works, the best rated hospital systems and outcomes are in places like Pennsylvania, Texas, Idaho or Utah, where there is minimal government involvement with healthcare, whereas New York, California and similar states consistently rate towards the bottom.

The best system is always the one the government doesn’t get involved in. Even in countries with government single payer health care systems, the overwhelming majority of people will prefer the private option when available.

The fact one side consistently refuses to offer any evidence that their system works should be a marker that it is a religious statement rather than a political or practical solution.