DAVID HIMMELSTEIN—The plans really trick the system in a couple of ways. One is that they seek out healthy, low-cost enrollees who are going to be inexpensive for them to cover. So they get the lump sum payment from the Medicare program, but the insurance company doesn’t actually need to pay for care. In fact, for 19% of Medicare enrollees, they cost nothing in the course of a year. So when an insurance company enrolls them, they get something like $10,000 or $12,000 a year, and they pay for no care at all. So that’s one thing—enroll healthy and inexpensive people and avoid sick ones.
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ERIC ZUESSE—In order for this switch to happen, the megadonors will first need to offer to the Biden family sufficient inducements in order to persuade them to persuade Joseph Biden to withdraw. If Biden won’t do that, then the individuals upon whose generosity he has been relying for legal protection and for a luxurious and honored post-Presidency, and for their support to the Biden family, will instead abandon them, as defective goods, for their ultimate disloyalty to them.
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PAUL EDWARDS—Nothing can save this nation because it has ceased to be a nation. A nation is a political entity that represents and defends the interests of a people. America, in contrast, is dirty Capitalism embodied. It is an enormous machine whose only purpose is to grind out profit for its owners, the vacuous billionaire coven.
It has no ideal, no ethic or principle, and so, no animating spirit at its core. If it ever had, beyond lust for money and the power to get it, that spirit has burned out in the bonfire of those vaunted, never implemented, virtues that were its best-selling points.
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US Role in Deadly ATACMS Strike on Crimean Beach & Why Ukraine Calls Crimeans “Civilian Occupiers”
4 minutes readBRIAN BERLETIC—A deadly ATACMS strike on a Crimean beach left several civilians dead including children, followed by Moscow blaming Washington for the attack; Senior Ukrainian presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak refused to apologize for the attack, instead insisting civilians are considered “occupiers” and that signs of peaceful life on the peninsula cannot be allowed. The US provides Ukraine with all targeting data for HIMARS/M270 strikes for both shorter range guided rockets and longer range ATACMS according to the Washington Post. Leaked audio between senior German military officers reveal that all NATO long.range weapons require NATO mission planning and targeting data transferred to Ukrainians, with the addition of US and British personnel on the ground helping prepare weapons for strikes; . The deadly attack is only the latest in a long line of atrocities enabled by US.NATO support of Ukraine’s various governments following the US overthrow of Ukraine’s elected government in 2014.
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Russ Interviews POD SAVE Fans Outside Brooklyn Live Show
4 minutes readEDITOR—Russ Dobular interviews fans of Pod Dave America in Brooklyn and the results are discouraging, to put it mildly. The people—all aparently middle class and comfortable, seem conformist about the state of American “democracy”, alarmingly disinformed, and uncaring about most of the major issues confronting the world. One never heard of Julian Assange and could care less about his fate. The DD hosts wonder how you can spark a revolution with a population so lacking in basic knowledge or interest about social and political realities.