Yeah, doctor's need to have multiple members of their staff *just* to deal with the different insurance companies. All of which have different procedures, want to maximize their profits (via minimizing claims), and think their beancounters know more than the doctor who has said what should be the right thing to do.
What I find most disturbing about Biden's casually broad stereotypes -- which I consider to be racist, even if he is smugly paternalistic rather than vicious -- is that he had 8 YEARS of close association with Barack Obama and apparently Biden learned not one damn thing about his own prejudices. That relationship doesn't appear to have sparked intellectual or moral curiosity about what it means to be black or white in America. By sheer osmosis, by watching the media circus about tan suits, Biden should have been schooled in the deep pernicious effects of racism at the highest reaches of governance. He was in the richest environment a white man could ask for in stepping outside his comfort zone and learning something vital, critical about the fault lines of America, from one of the most revered and respected black men in the country, if not the world.
The Ticking Time Bomb in Biden’s ‘Record Player’ Answer
It’s not about his age. It’s about whether he has offended black voters.www.politico.com
There is controversy about the mechanics of this endorsement, since WFP vote result is 50% leadership vs 50% membership :
Top Progressive Group Endorses Elizabeth Warren For President
The Working Families Party endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the 2016 election cycle.www.huffpost.com
Maybe it's a case of "some of my best friends are black" syndrome.
I don't think its that. Biden has been a strong supporter of civil rights his whole career. He's never /done/ anything that leads anyone to suspect actual racism, in my opinion.
Joe basically is a product of his time. While he got better on some things (marriage equality) others are firmly rooted in what he learned decades ago (like how to treat women). I do not think he is INTENTIONALLY being any form of *ist, he is just doing what he has always done when it comes to stuff that is not as obvious to him. Unfortunately for him that stuff is not what the culture expects anymore and as a politician he should have picked up on that stuff.
While this is huge and I am still an Elizabeth Warren fan (though still not as much as Michael Bennett), its important to remember that she spoke in literally one of the most liberal hotspots in the entire country.
I got halfway through the article before my battery died. So far it's the same soap opera as any small city in a flyover state. Is there a smoking gun in the second half? There's nothing in the first half but a new greenhorn mayor, which is not in dispute.
The point may be that nobody is going to care enough to look for a smoking gun. The optics are horrible. I can't imagine who is going to want to attach a less than zero appeal to black voters to their ticket. Krystal Ball does a thoughtful summary _www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNw6aX3SEJA_that brings home the point of money.
There is documentation that several white officers planned to remove the police chief and said racist things to make the whole police force white again by pressuring Buttigieg's donors. Krystal's video as Aeon linked above is good at laying out what happened.
I’m not in a place right now to listen to a You Tube unless it’s captioned. But the first half of the article does say this about the police officers. It goes on about phone recordings mishandled enough the FBI got involved.
There is no actual smoking gun that Buttigieg got pressured from an actual donor and caved. All it is is reporting of a potential new linkage and we have to treat it as such.
Propping up the ACA, which the centrists clearly and openly support, does not get there.
Disagree. A willingness to let "medicare for those who want it" coexist with private insurance seems very much a part of the discussion, here and with all but a couple of the candidates. "Medicare choice" leaves a primary cost savings unfulfilled and possibly prevents "the public option" from ever realizing a substantial cost savings, and possibly dooms it to possibly planned failure. Only one of the leading candidates is unambiguously clear that there is no role for private insurers, and another is possibly there but for some reason keeps using hedge words. None of the other candidates get acknowledgment from me that they will even fight for difficult change.
