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  1. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    Medicare Advantage is the problem part of Part D. And that's where a large money hole in Medicare currently is. A/B (Called C for Medicare Advantage) parts of Medicare Advantage are operating pretty much as expected (although worse than Medicare proper) - but the D part is posting terrible...
  2. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    Medicare D isn't Medicare and it was something added by Republican request that wasn't in the compromised final ACA. So grats on believing Hot Air which often completely distorts shit? Medicare D is planned to sunset anyhow and isn't "increasingly popular" either, enrollments have been...
  3. Vaclav

    Hearthstone

    Doesn't that require Innervate too?
  4. Vaclav

    Plants vs Zombies : Garden Warfare

    Didn't mean graphically necessarily just looks funner.
  5. Vaclav

    Plants vs Zombies : Garden Warfare

    Dunno but looks better than Titanfall to me.
  6. Vaclav

    Question about US healthcare (coming from a Brit)

    Umbrella? Swedish zombies are the worst.
  7. Vaclav

    Question about US healthcare (coming from a Brit)

    One member of the EU - that isn't that dissimilar from other EU members. With EU states mirroring our largest states very well. But let me guess it doesn't scale down for states now, right?
  8. Vaclav

    Hearthstone

    Very top heavy though. The rare rush deck might be an issue.
  9. Vaclav

    Smartphones

    Is it just me or does the iosfans.com part of that link make me secondguess how accurate it is?
  10. Vaclav

    Question about US healthcare (coming from a Brit)

    Linear doesn't make something pass/fail - this isn't a linear scaling topic in the slightest.
  11. Vaclav

    Question about US healthcare (coming from a Brit)

    You heard it "here" first kids, scaling doesn't exist except when it's convenient.
  12. Vaclav

    Question about US healthcare (coming from a Brit)

    And note that employer healthcare is pretax. So it's not 1:1 in replacing a plan with cash.
  13. Vaclav

    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    I love the video one comment in the video they give is "Metacritic score is misleading" LOL - (Note: It's 36/100)
  14. Vaclav

    EQN:Landmark Beta Starts March 26th!

    Not the Doctor Who thing?
  15. Vaclav

    Question about US healthcare (coming from a Brit)

    A) The OECD is hardly unbiased in such, they're actually lobbying for patent'ing similar to ours in the EU. B) Your link doesn't work. C) Still not adjusted for population. A nation of 50 people that invents 1200 things a year would be "terribly innovative" under that stupid criteria of just...
  16. Vaclav

    Question about US healthcare (coming from a Brit)

    Depends on what treatment you're talking about - there's some corner cases it's likely true for but overall no. I've seen similar, but it's stuff like elderly people get knee replacements that are cheaper than ones that are going to young athletic types because when a kid needs a knee...
  17. Vaclav

    Question about US healthcare (coming from a Brit)

    That's definitely the TL;DR version - not that TL;DR is enough for fanaskin to understand critically thinking about things before posting them. (And generally not after either)
  18. Vaclav

    Question about US healthcare (coming from a Brit)

    Two countries on their allow repatenting things by very minimal changes including changes that from any known standpoint have no actual changes to the product as it's used. Any guesses which two? Or more simply: Comparing patent law when the range of what is allowed to be patented is so...
  19. Vaclav

    Hearthstone

    It's semi-selection bias - most of their stats aren't pulled automatically, you have to opt-in for them to track your account or something. But once you're opted in you can't select what gets reported or not from how it looks. (I'm not using it though so this is impression that might not be 100%...
  20. Vaclav

    Question about US healthcare (coming from a Brit)

    Chair lift check from the grandmother-in-law was drafted from Medicare when we got our reimbursement for paying for hers (since it was a pay and get reimbursed thing and she couldn't afford it supposedly [although with the inheritance we recently got and her not earning any money I think she...
  21. Vaclav

    Question about US healthcare (coming from a Brit)

    Brut: When you retire from the military they are quite explicit in explain the options you restrict yourself on living in someplace like Montana or Idaho (the example I know better being that one of my good friends had to use VA often and lived in ID). Is it shitty? Sure - but the VA is...
  22. Vaclav

    Hearthstone

    The win rate listed on that site was something higher in general as well - it's pretty obvious that people play them because they're "the easy class" in Arena comparatively from all the evidence there. Besides, from my standpoint they're just no fun to play against in Arena. Their entire...
  23. Vaclav

    Question about US healthcare (coming from a Brit)

    Brutal, you're in Montana there's no VA there, they choose to live far from the VA. And honestly, most UHS systems modeled themselves after MEDICARE not VA.
  24. Vaclav

    Hearthstone

    Mage still needs to be balanced as is. That arena stats earlier linked had it quoted that 65 percent of the time mage is taken if offered with the rest around 20% is a stark indicator of the imbalance.
  25. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Its even got its own CPU - Kinect is pretty crazy really just so limited for it's application.
  26. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    If they're willing to take a loss, parts cost was estimated at something like $25 profit on PS4 and XBOne based on the breakdown costs.
  27. Vaclav

    Dark Souls 2

    I found Battle Axe to be one of the absolute worst, frankly. So many wide openings it leaves with so little reach - it's like a halberd with none of the reach.
  28. Vaclav

    Irrational Games being shut down

    I believe they're using it as a jab at Aliens: Colonial Marines... which was something a defunct studio handed off to them and they "finished nicely".
  29. Vaclav

    Question about US healthcare (coming from a Brit)

    Hell Kreugen, imagine if snips and tube ties were offered free to those that are supposedly "welfare queens" and the like how much that would cost for a relatively cheap (under $10k pretty sure average support check is close to that in just a year or two, no?) fix for those that want to be...
  30. Vaclav

    Thief (2014)

    Thief was never a particularly fun game to watch, the play to watch ratio on it was very play skewed - I can't imagine ANY videos of it done right being fun to watch. (Note: I thought Hitman looked like the most boring piece of crap watching videos of it, when I got it on PS+ and said screw it...
  31. Vaclav

    Hearthstone

    I'd take Wisp over it personally.
  32. Vaclav

    Metal Gear Solid V

    Besides actually playing it will generate some effective blurring anyhow.
  33. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    True - still not done a HTPC here yet - tune might change once that happens (I've got to repair this machine - when I get around to bothering with the repair, I'll likely do a full rebuild and the spare parts + a few parts make my first HTPC though).
  34. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Dunno - as a media control center thing I personally could give it a ton of slack on games once the price is right, personally.
  35. Vaclav

    Question about US healthcare (coming from a Brit)

    Its not THAT scary if you're really poor - under $11k in most states, under $7k in a few - because Medicaid is basically a NHS type thing for the ultrapoor - the problem comes about in that tier right on the upper edges of poverty and into the lower tiers outside of it where employers aren't...
  36. Vaclav

    Question about US healthcare (coming from a Brit)

    On basic coverage available - besides the emergency room via getting care in the ER and then not paying the bill (ER's are mostly hand-tied in pursuing people) there's no basic level of care available with no means to pay. And that's really just a back door that can be abused not really...
  37. Vaclav

    Hearthstone

    Ah, not familiar with that to comment on the matchup - there's some weird matchups for huntards.
  38. Vaclav

    Hearthstone

    I meant for you - I assume he was just running the standard Hunter retard deck that is all just the Hunter unique stuff and almost nothing else.
  39. Vaclav

    Hearthstone

    What deck or general type of deck if it wasn't an archetype?
  40. Vaclav

    Metal Gear Solid V

    Is it just me or does the non-PS4 stuff look almost doable in EQ Landmark?