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Monday Open Thread: 05/13 is what you make it [1]

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Date: 2024-05-13  

GO BEARS! Doing great things since at least 1960. Governor Ronald Reagan famously stated that Cal student activists all majored in "sex, drugs, and treason". Problem is, he said it as if it were a bad thing.

Today is National Women's Check-Up Day, which I find to be completely baffling. The US government and governing class doesn't give a crap about the health of the populace; that's why, in this day and age, we still do not have any kind of healthcare system. Beyond that, there have been a ton of decisions and legislative actions intended to subvert and pervert such limited access to injury and illness care as women previously enjoyed for the past 50 to 60 years. They are being singled out to be given less, not more, so-called health care.

We do, of course, have numbers of independent, for profit, injury and illness treatment providers which team up with insurance companies to deny provide injury and illness treatment to those who can afford it. A 2010 corporate welfare law requiring all persons to obtain injury and illness treatment insurance and mandating such to be the sole permitted means of financing injury and illness treatment, however, required the insurance companies to provide their victims with one free "check-up" annually. Though this did, to some extent, make it look as if the law was intended to benefit the populace as a whole, it also means that the treatment provider-insurance company combine reaped no net profit from such check-ups unless the providers found some grounds to prescribe something and thereby cut pharma in on the deal.

Given that uber-patriarchal cultures hold their female chattels to be mere breeders during certain portions of their lives, there might be some perceived benefit to trying to maintain their baseline health during the appropriate portion of their lives. This does seem to be a bit misguided however, insofar as automation, ai, offshoring, and the increasing use of proxies instead of US "boots on the ground" seemingly would mean that an ever growing populace would come to consist more and more of those that the WEF and other self-appointed elites consider to be "useless eaters". As I said, I just don't get it.



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