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Holy moly. Eli Drinkwitz absolutely nailed what’s gone wrong with college football.
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Make health insurance work like dental insurance. Doctors charge their fees, patients can choose to pay the difference or not. Networks are a problem. The requirement under the ACA that every plan cover same essentials, regardless of health, gender and gov subsidies is why coverage is so high. Bring back catastroohic plans and increase HSA limits. Create gov HEALTH SNAP equivalent and abolish Medicaid. For the truly catastrophic cases can create a gov subsidized pool for those. Common sense easy fixes that will benefit everyone.
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But if you entrust the state to run a single payer healthcare program it’ll be fine, trust us, guys.
Breaking News: The chief executive of California’s High-Speed Rail Authority has abruptly resigned after a recent state report that found that the agency had misused nearly $600,000 to pay for the travel of consultants. This is a developing story. nyti.ms/4zoacHi
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I’m sorry, but seeing SO MANY of our youth voting for communism… simply means our schools have catastrophically failed
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Marc Andreessen reveals why housing, health care, and education keep getting more expensive while everything else gets cheaper
"There's basically three components to the American dream. A house near great job opportunities, great health care for you and your family, and sending your kids to good schools"
"If you disaggregate the economy over the last 25 years, everything that technology touches basically collapses in price. Television sets, computer games, anything with electronics in it. But if you chart housing, education, and health care, the prices of those things are skyrocketing"
"The government restricts supply, zoning laws and university certifications. And then the government responds to the political pressure caused by the rising prices by subsidizing demand. And of course, if you subsidize demand and a fixed supply, you get skyrocketing prices"
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🚨🚨CRAZIEST STAT EVER🚨🚨
Legendary coaches Mike Ditka, Paul Brown, Don Shula, Chuck Noll, Urban Meyer, Jim Harbaugh, Nick Saban, Bo Schembechler, Lou Holtz, Bob Stoops, Les Miles, Ara Parseghian, Jim Tressel, Don James, Bill Cowher, Woody Hayes, Curt Cignetti, and Mike McCarthy were all born or raised within this 315-mile area.
18 football icons 🤯
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I understand that the social security conversation is political poison. But I’m not running for office so I don’t care about that. Taking huge chunks out of the paychecks of young working Americans in order to pay for the retirements of older Americans who have a net worth several times higher, all to prop up a system that everyone knows likely won’t be there when those younger people are retirement age themselves, is morally abhorrent and economically insane. Everyone knows it, too, but we’re held hostage by elderly politicians who refuse to surrender power, and older voters who, as a group (with exceptions, obviously), simply don’t care all that much about the financial and cultural future their grandchildren will inherit.
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A surgeon who saves me $4,000 is welcome to make $1,000.
I hope he does it again tomorrow.
Somewhere in the healthcare debate, we became more offended by someone earning money than by the amount patients lose.
Give me the total price, the expected outcome, and a credible alternative. Let me decide whether the offer works.
If a physician builds a better service, charges less, and earns a healthy profit, I want more people copying him.
His success gives the expensive hospital a problem.
That seems useful.
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Removing third party payments for routine care will solve most of our healthcare cost problems.
Don’t believe me? Think it’s only around the margins?
Look at @nikillinit’s bill for childbirth. Nearly $80k paid by his insurance and another $4k out of pocket.
Now look at the billboard for this hospital advertising cash pay. They can do the entire thing for less than what @nikillinit’s out of pocket!
Using insurance is a 20x markup. We see this over and over again. 10-30x markups with third party payment. Compare @SurgeryCenterOK’s prices to insurance. Compare what @AtlasMD charges for imaging and meds to what your insurance pays. Look at the comparisons @noahkaufmanmd has directly on his website.
Moving to a cash pay system for routine care doesn’t just save a few percentage points off cost. We are talking 50-80% reductions. Massive savings before you even factor in what competition will do to further drive down costs and increase quality.
We are talking about saving hundreds of billions, easily.
So how much does it cost to have a baby in the US? The Europeans are really gonna shit themselves at this one.
(caveats - based in new york, good commercial coverage, etc.)
We were billed ~$150K, our insurance paid ~$79K, and our out-of-pocket costs were ~$4300. And this was for a largely uneventful birth cost wise - NICU babies can end up as multi-hundreds of thousands of dollars to occasionally $1M+!
Why are we sharing all of this? IMO healthcare wins because patients are afraid to share their experiences with each other. We gained a lot by having friends who would share their stories with us. This is our family's small part of trying to break that information asymmetry.
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"As special an experience as I've ever had in my life."
@StanfordSteve82 recaps an unforgettable experience in Iowa City 🖤💛
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It's so much worse than you all realize.
There's $1.8 Trillion in outstanding student loan debt. It just keeps going up.
It is completely irresponsible for the federal government to be subsidizing these loans. We're knowingly sending people to financial ruin.
Some examples:
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Neat idea at a southern club where they bought a barrel and give out bottles to members that make an ace but must be kept on property🔥 Cheers🏌️🥃
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Or....hear me out here. We take the government out of the student loan process and let the lenders dictate rate and terms to a marketplace. Watch tuition rates drop like stones when the fed isn't backing whatever numbers the colleges want to charge.
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The hospital credentialing process needs a complete overhaul. Creating one standardized process across the US would significantly reduce administration and decrease healthcare costs as a result. There is absolutely no reason, that in 2026, it takes a physician in good standing, 3-6months or more to get credentialed at a hospital…
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I hope people realize that for the foreseeable future, the cost of healthcare benefits will get more people fired, or not hired, than AI
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FBS oversight committee: Western Michigan beat Michigan. The refs were wrong. The result should be different. We saw it. You saw it. Everybody saw it.
But we’re not changing it because that would hurt Michigan and that’s not allowed.
The FBS Oversight Committee says in a statement that "instant replay protocols were not followed in the contest’s second-to-last play" in the Western Michigan-Michigan game, and "had the protocols been followed, the outcome of the game would have been different."
FBS oversight committee says it cannot overturn the result.
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PETER THIEL CALLED IT.
The Antichrist wouldn’t build the doomsday machine.
This clip aged terrifyingly well.
Peter Thiel predicted in June, 26, 2025 exactly what is happening right now with Anthropic, Coxon and the AI-safety landscape.
“The way the Antichrist would take over the world is you talk about Armageddon non-stop, you talk about existential risk non-stop.”
The 'Antichrist' wouldn’t seize power by creating an AI apocalypse, but by CONVINCING everyone that the apocalypse was coming and then offering safety in exchange for CONTROL.
A must watch.
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I give my students exercises in being more bored.
I assign them to work out without headphones and without devices. I tell them to get on a train, put their hands in their lap, turn off their iPhone, and look out the window.
There’s a reason you have some of your best ideas in the shower: your phone isn’t in there. Your mind has a chance to wander.
The problem is that we’ve become very good at distracting ourselves from that state.
You’re sitting at a red light and it’s going on too long, so you pull out your phone. You’re in a supermarket checkout line and it’s moving slowly, so you pull out your phone. Even picking up a book can become another way of filling the space.
At some point, all of that input starts distracting us from the hard work of thinking about ideas.
Don’t always distract yourself.
You need more white space in your life. You need a flight where you sit and think and pray and let your mind wander. You need moments when nothing else is coming in.
That kind of space is really important cognitively, especially if you want to understand the bigger questions and the meaning of your life.