Mark Cuban being a ghoulish moron again has me ticked again that 2 days after open enrollment closed at my job I got a letter from the insurance company about how they couldn't reach an agreement with some other company so now the largest providers in the state aren't covered.

conservatives love to accurately describe the current state of the world and then pretend it's a worst case hypothetical under socialism

Mark Cuban: What if Medicare For All isn’t perfect? Everyone: Wait until you hear about the healthcare we have now

I’m just a simple primary care doc (one of the annoyances mentioned in the 1st post), but I’d humbly suggest rich men consider that there might be entire fields of study, bodies of literature, diverse disciplines of subj matter experts, and a world full of lived experience on a topic before posting

I had to go to my primary to get a referral for a specialist I have been seeing for over 5 years. My new health insurance wouldn't cover a doctor appt without it. Now I need to get one every year just to see her.

I’m sure a ton of people are posting this same thing, but for us regular peons most specialists already do require an appointment, approval, & referral from our primary care provider first. This is the norm. Basic adult knowledge.

Mr. Cuban, most of us are already paying a huge percentage of our salaries in copays, premiums, and deductibles IF we’re lucky enough to have employment-based insurance. The money that goes to insurers now would more than fund a single-payer system. Dozens of countries make it work. Think, please.

Bro are you joking? I DO have to see my PCP before I can see a specialist. In fact, I usually have to go through MULTIPLE visits with a PCP before they will give me a referral to a specialist. And THEN I usually get to wait 6-8 months to see the specialist. You are way out of touch.

It almost reads as satire as an argument FOR universal healthcare.

Rich people like mark cuban, apparently. Talk about his point blowing up in his face. Big "Are you ok with driving a 2023 ferarri?" (As if it's a horrible thing) energy.

Billionaires are literally the only people rich enough not to have to worry about health care bills.

Literally describing the current situation, Mark.

I recently compared notes with an American on health care costs, wait times, and tax rates. You guys are getting scammed. And I’m self-employed so pay for my own private health insurance (for prescriptions, dental and optical coverage bc it’s cheaper than paying out of pocket).

Mark you CURRENTLY have to see a primary before you can see a specialist and even then insurance sometimes says "nah we're not paying for this, it's not necessary" what world are you living in??

I work for a pediatric specialty hospital, and our specialists don’t need a referral to get paid by Medicaid but so many commercial policies do. Pretty much every claim he’s making here against M4A is what commercial insurance is already doing 🤣😭 The audacity he has is wild

There's no way that the 8 to 12% more in taxes is going to be more than they currently 50% of my income that I pay for healthcare. 🤣🤣 Also FYI - Europe is much further ahead on several things vs US 🙃

You keep describing the current system and asking people if they want that as a consequence to some different system. Not only are regular people experiencing these things, we are already paying more than every other country on earth to do it. So much of it gets hidden, get it out in the open.

Melissa Hortman's family didn't get this much sympathy. And the zealot shot her husband and her dog, too, in their home.

This is also the exact vibe of Charlie Kirk obituaries. Nary a mention of how he said he’d hypothetically force his daughter to deliver her rapist’s baby at age 10

If I were editing a column about Charlie Kirk’s political genius, I would tell the writer he needed to quote Kirk’s actual political beliefs. If the writer responded that doing so would weaken or distract from his argument, it’d be a pretty good sign that the column was not ready for prime time.

He said his audience should "stop transgender people" and "buy a lot of bullets." In 2024, he said a bible verse that called for queer people to be stoned to death was "god's perfect law when it came to sexual matters." You tell me that wasn't violent. You tell me those weren't threats.

I can think of nothing which would honour the memory of this great patriot more than enacting his fondly-stated beliefs on this topic:

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Fewer infections means fewer sick days from work. Telehealth reduces the risk of infection by allowing patients to receive medical care from home. But without Congressional action, Medicare telehealth coverage is ending soon for millions.

OSHA has proposed removing the COVID-19 reporting and recordkeeping requirements for healthcare workers, citing the end of the public health emergency and a belief that reporting provides limited additional value.

As it’s an airborne virus please can Labour explain how the 13 million clinically vulnerable that Labour has taken away vaccines for, can keep safe in our hospitals? Hospitals that once again have many covid infections.

It wouldn’t have changed if Covid wasn’t airborne. Yet hospitals and schools are still telling children to wash hands for a predominantly airborne virus. Huge disparity here. Please will journalists pick up this story! www.bohs.org/app/uploads/...

The guidance changed over the Summer for #NHSStaff to wear ffp3 respirators to protect themselves from airborne transmission. This is vital, especially with 13 million clinically vulnerable unvaccinated this Winter. Would Labour like to explain why there has been no messaging on this?

The UK IPC people, who GOT IT WRONG, are willing to murder millions of people rather than just say "We got it wrong, sorry, we know better now". Covid is airborne by aerosols. Wear a tight-fitting respirator mask (N95, P100, FFP3, etc) 1/2

So, April of 2024, i gave keynotes at two separate business and data science industry conferences, and told them exactly this was going to happen: That fixing "AI" mistakes was going to lead to hiring more people to do more work, or paying the original employees to spend time doing it themselves.

WEAR A RESPIRATOR MASK !!!!! N95 (3M Aura is nice) or P100 (3M 6200 with 3M 7093 filters is nice). If people keep snorting a brain damaging virus, it will be very bad for society !

E.g. we can say people indoctrinated into a cult "should" think their way out. But that doesn't actually work, because cult leaders filter the evidence available to members, and portray their own pronouncements as certainties that override observable reality. Now look at the EBM pyramid here again.

Definitely. But the productive question may be at the systems level. What aspects of institutional medical culture and decision processes make this failure mode so common? There's a cult-like "outsiders = evil" aspect too, reinforced by bad actors equating all criticism with anti-vax pseudoscience.

The healthcare model where a senior practitioner is taught to believe that the only person who has anything to teach them is an even more senior - and all too often, even more out of date - practitioner is not working. This nurse is well-meaning, but literally decades out of date.

The most accurate public health information from any government in the last 6 years! Thank you Durham County! bsky.app/profile/durh...

COVID-19 Myths and Facts part 2, because unfortunately there are more myths than we can put into one post:

As COVID-19 cases continue to increase, it's important to know accurate information about COVID-19 in order to protect yourself and others! Get the facts about common myths, and take steps to protect yourself and others.

Genuinely they have no way to make straightforward targeted improvements. They can only guess at what might work and then benchmark and hope. Because in the end they are doing the equivalent of extracting poorly compressed text from a zip file via a random number generator.

Since it mainly regurgitates fermented internet zeitgeist, once everyone started talking about this the result was inevitable.

It's not intelligence, of any sort, that you're looking at here. It's programming, autofilling a response from existing data, and sometimes that response is wrong. The LLM doesn't "know" it's wrong and it can't reliably "learn" that it's wrong about anything. There is nothing to do the knowing.

Oh… it fucks up simple questions because of how it operates? Neat!

Aside from it being deeply ironic that your “I’ll just leave this here” link is broken, Moravec’s Paradox is about how motor control and spacial perception require more computing power than “reasoning” It in no way defends “chatbot being sold as having Ph.D levels of expertise can’t count for shit”

You can’t have it both ways, here. The phrases “artificial intelligence” and “machine learning” both imply things that just aren’t true. Maybe they weren’t meant to be literal, but the layperson has no clue and the people trying to sell this stuff seem to prefer it that way.

I'm not convinced that an advert that said "Buy a Casio calculator to handle all your monthly salary calculations. It's right 73% of the time!" would be too effective.

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable," -JFK

Time to get busy California. Git it done Governor! @gavinnewsom.bsky.social

Just popping in with a reminder that every day is a great day to wear a mask - for your own health of for the health of others. Spread peace and love, not covid cooties. ✌️🫶☮️😷😘