Interesting, Non Political News

Mist said:

Uh, a whole lot of workers have a $2000+ deductible before their insurance pays anything at all. So even an insured patient would be stuck with that portion of the bill if that was their only major medical expense that year.

Anyway, this wasn't supposed to be political, neither party should be considered pro-rape, so I don't know why you're making this political.

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Links an article from Ars Technica entitled "our dumb healthcare system"
"I don't know why you're making this political"
neither side is pro rape but thats clearly a left wing pro socialized medicine piece.

Fair point on the deductible if they didnt include that into the average out of pocket cost for insured patients, although that would be a pretty dumb mistake for them to make

Aldarion said:

It doesnt take long in the article before they admit that actually for insured patients the cost was about 7 times lower. And only about 10-15% of patients were uninsured. But somehow the "average" is 3500

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Even so, medical care is still too fucking expensive in this country and lots of people get stuck with shitty high deductible plans through their employer

Ever looked at an itemized bill from a hospital? Some will charge like $3 for a single Tylenol pill or $20 for a single pair of latex gloves.

Also when you look at the actual stats, men are more likely to be violently assaulted or murdered than women, but they make it seem like women receive a disproportionate amount of violence.

Different types and venues of violence, though. I am going to guess the majority of male violence is external to the home where the majority of female violence is domestic

This article for once notices the central cause of the problem with modern Academia:

the number of administrators employed by Yale University has risen three times faster than the undergraduate student body since 2003...
“noninstructional activities such as admissions, student activities, libraries, and administrative and executive activities” now make up 67% of the expenses of private for-profit four-year institutions.

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and then they come to the stupidest possible conclusion: get faculty involved in all this noninstructional bullshit.

We understand these measures will require a lot more faculty involvement in the running of the university than is currently the case.

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No, you goddam morons, you fire 2/3 of the administration and you cut the expenses of higher education by 2/3 as your own data demonstrate. You drop 100% of the noninstructional bullshit. Problem fucking solved. Idiots

Aldarion said:

This article for once notices the central cause of the problem with modern Academia:

Too Much University Administration Is Indoctrinating Students

This Tablet article covers how the replacement of university faculty with administration is restricting thought and indoctrinating students.

www.tabletmag.com

and then they come to the stupidest possible conclusion: get faculty involved in all this noninstructional bullshit.



No, you goddam morons, you fire 2/3 of the administration and you cut the expenses of higher education by 2/3 as your own data demonstrate. You drop 100% of the noninstructional bullshit. Problem fucking solved. Idiots

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I worked in the UC system (University of California) for a few years; I can say without a doubt that the administrative staff is absolutely ridiculous. Every section of the university has an entire HR department devoted to it, complete with separate title IX groups, advocacy groups, diversity and inclusiveness staff, etc. And there are dozens of these at each UC. And these are not small departments. They're typically various flavors of alphabet people or fat 30-50 year old women, 10-20 people deep, and they spend the overwhelming majority of their time doing absolutely nothing or coming up with extremely minor "program" changes that impact .0001% of the school's total workforce.

And this doesn't even really touch on the -massive- direct student services groups. These tend to skew younger (due to lots of student employees) but are basically the same with extra graft. The only actual work is being done by students making like $15 an hour, while everyone else goes to endless meetings about how they should have endless meetings. I had to go through some of these while I was there as an observer (part of management training shit) and it was absolutely mindblowing. Like meetings with 30-40 people from the same department, all flavors of the alphabet people and a bunch of women with useless degrees, talking about how they think the coloring in some random mental help brochure may trigger some students because it was almond green vs. a more pastel green which has been found to be more soothing. An hour+ meeting for this. And it wasn't resolved; this same topic came up in no less than 5 meetings over the course of my month observing. And it wasn't resolved when I wasn't required to go anymore.

It's absolutely in dire need of having a battle axe taken to. 10s of millions of dollars a year for people who should be taking orders at Starbucks.

Mist said:

22-Year-Old Woman Taped Up and Slashed Nude Tinder Date and Then Ordered Food, Cops Say

Colorado Springs Police In what might be the worst of blind dates, a 21-year-old Colorado man is recovering from a Tinder date gone awry. The unnamed victim was found naked and bleeding in the parking lot of an apartment complex where his 22-year-old date, identified by police as Lauren Marie...

news.yahoo.com

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Going to take a blind stab at this and say the woman had a fantastic family dynamic growing up.