i always love games of intersectional twister, and this one's amazing: leftists standing up for anesthesiologists who make an average of 472k, and whose slaraies increased by an average of ~70k from 2022 to 2023 at a time of tons of bill-paying struggles
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) December 5, 2024
~~ L E F T I S M ~~ https://t.co/ovTyZxd2Az
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BCBS told some extremely overpaid specialists (median salary: $430,600) that they would be cutting their pay by applying some of Medicare's payment rules.
— Eric Levitz (@EricLevitz) December 5, 2024
This is how single-payer works: Squeeze rentier providers, lower costs.
If you're outraged by this, you're getting played! https://t.co/1mc5TJ8bD0
anesthesiologists should be paid infinity dollars, and anyone who thinks they should get $1 less should be immediately executed without trial https://t.co/32Aq797DcO
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) December 5, 2024
my bad: the us healthcare system is great, costs are kept under control, and there's no corruption or rent-seeking behavior (as lefties have been saying all along!) https://t.co/dedxN7TTh7
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) December 5, 2024
he gvie me lot to tihnk abuot tbh 
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Is he wrong tho?
Something that annoys me about leftists is how they can identify a real issue (healthcare in the US sucks) and then come up with absolutely r-slurred reasons and solutions (this is because of private insurance and the solution is to start killing rich people).
Like maybe the problem and solution are a lot more complicated than a bullet can fix?
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Actually yes this is an r-slured policy. The anesthesiologist has no control over the length of the procedure. That mostly comes down to the surgeon and luck.
Youre lying on the table with your chest open and the surgeon makes a mistake or theres a complication that turns a 3 hour procedure into a 5 hour procedure. Is the anesthesiologist supposed to wake you up to make medicare happy? Maybe they should just leave the room and let you suffocate.
The only thing that will happen is costs will increase by the salary of the new accountants required to fill out this idiotic paperwork.
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Some days I have to work longer than others.
This mostly comes down to luck and PM competence.
Should I get paid extra if I open a PR at 6:30 instead of my usual 5 because I was assigned a ticket on the day before the sprint closes that took longer than my PM thought it would take? Probably not.
This is how salaried jobs work. My dad was a management consultant and sometimes he'd be home late too. He didn't demand overtime.
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Just pay them a flat amount?
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Woah there buddy, I'd be careful with that kind of suggestion. It'll make a lot of people want to kill you.
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Just get a quote first
and don't go over. 
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Literally nobody (except maybe your r-slurred butt) is asking for this.
In reality they stay there for the full procedure and just get paid slightly less that day.
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No, I agree. I also think if you are someone who wants single-payer healthcare, you're going to have to be ok with things like capping payments for procedures.
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Bleeding hearts want to pay for poor homeless children's heart surgeries and then immediately sperg out when they realize that paying for someone else's shit comes with costs and that the government has to make sure the system isn't abused to heck.
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Like illegals going to the ER for all sorts of non-ER related reason, not paying, and then those costs get added to everyone else's bills.
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Signs another gorillian petitions to keep illegal immigrants in
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And yet, chuds will start raging if you try to ensure illegal immigrants can buy insurance.
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Can't we just deport the ones who aren't directly working in agriculture?
This line of reasoning never makes any sense to me. There are tons who just deliver DoorDash for a living. Surely we can just deport those ones and then reduce the strain on public services.
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They shouldn't be giving anything that encourages them to stay. Leftism and open borders are antithetical to a functioning leftist society.
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What counts as being given something: Getting free healthcare via the ER, or having them pay for health insurance?
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These are not fricking complex thinkers. What Jesse needs to realise is fricking that the fricking original tweet sounds like they're going to turn off the fricking anaesthesia halfway through your surgery because you can't pay for all of it.
Realistically, he should address that presumption first, because he's trying to put sense into a fricking well-placed outrage bait reaction. Should have started by breaking down what's wrong with the fricking original claim rather than just saying 'look at these morons'. He's right, but he didn't think about how effective the fricking bait was fricking and how best to counter it.
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do you have a clue how modern journos work
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It's why they're so easy to criticise, motherlover!
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Single payer insurance > public hospitals like bongland.
Plus healthcare in Canada would work a lot better if all of our white doctors didnt immediately move to America for more $$. Although they probably still would anyway
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They don't benefit from all parts of the current bloated scam U.S healthcare is, but they take their cut, make it worse, and lobby to keep the parts that benefit them.
In other words: They're part of the problem, by and large.
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We should kill the rich because it would be funny, not because it would fix anything.
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CEOs arent people
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Honestly they're right about the solution but wrong about who the bullets should be used on
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i think insurance companies are a major reason america has such garbage healthcare.
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