Commentary: Ask your health care provider for the cash price | Nvdaily | nvdaily.com

Thursday, March 14, 2019

A friend shared a story he heard recently, over eggs and toast at a local eatery. A citizen needed an MRI. He asked the price, and the regional hospital quoted him $1,500. He looked concerned, mentioned that was expensive, and the provider offered that the cash price was $500. Curiously, that $500 is exactly what his insurance plan would have him pay. For a lot of people, this looks like a wash.

Source: Commentary: Ask your health care provider for the cash price | Nvdaily | nvdaily.com

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A peek behind the curtain?

I’ve often thought that there’s a “big club” that I ain’t in to fleece the medical consumer.  Gooferment, Big Medicine, and Big Insurance are the conspiring club members.

Argh!

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How America’s Most Hated Home Loan Is Staging A Comeback

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Reverse mortgages are creeping into the conversation for retirement income options.

Source: How America’s Most Hated Home Loan Is Staging A Comeback

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Hmmm, “most hated”?

I’d reserve that for the sub-prime “no doc” mortgage that caused everyone much more pain!

No?

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Scientists have built world’s first ‘time machine’ in experiment which defies the laws of physics

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

SCIENTISTS have built the world’s first time machine — sort of. Working with electrons in the bizarre realm of quantum mechanics, they first created the equivalent of a break for a game of pool. Th…

Source: Scientists have built world’s first ‘time machine’ in experiment which defies the laws of physics

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I’m sure pool players all over the world are waiting for a chance to do a shot over.

Imagine being able to press a “do over” button?

If one could imagine it, how far back would you have to go?

Could one start completely over?

And, if such was possible, what give you any confidence that you could avoid your past “mistakes”?

And what if your current outcome was the “best” of all your possible choices, could you recover back?

A troubling thought experiment fraught with problems.

Like in my youth, I once left the Engineering Building, turned left on Broadway, and walked to the subway at 242nd street with my friends to have a beer at the Pinewood. So instead of studying, I had a hangover.  To avoid that “mistake”, I decide now in retrospect to turn right to go to the 231st subway station and, when crossing the street, I’m killed by bus.

See what I mean, if we consider “time travel”, we don’t get to see what’s down the road when we take any particular fork in the road.

Hmmm!

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Vaccines Continue To Injure and Kill People – LewRockwell

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

If you or a family member is injured or dies from vaccines, you must sue the federal government and go up against their attorneys in this special vaccine court.Many cases are litigated for years before a settlement is reached, as can be seen from the report below. One flu shot victim litigated for 7 years before reaching a settlement, and one Gardasil HPV vaccine victim litigated for over 5 years before reaching a settlement, for example.Another Gardasil HPV vaccine victim who suffered cardiac arrest and death, took over 3 years to settle.

Source: Vaccines Continue To Injure and Kill People – LewRockwell

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I’m not an anti-vaxxers!

But, I don’t this the public is being served by the Gooferment interference in the marketplace.

The lack of transparency gives rise to all sorts of conspiracy theories.

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American Pravda: Amazon Book Censorship, by Ron Unz – The Unz Review

Monday, March 11, 2019

Amazon today possesses a near-total monopoly over Internet book sales, and if American society continues to allow it to ban serious works of scholarship on political or ideological grounds, our future intellectual freedom has already been lost.

Source: American Pravda: Amazon Book Censorship, by Ron Unz – The Unz Review

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I thought that the cure for “bad speech” was “more speech”.  This digital version of book burning is a bad idea.  I’m an Amazon fan but may have to rethink that loyalty if this continues.

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How an ex-con, and the son of a judge, scammed the city out of $220G

Monday, March 11, 2019

This is how a convicted felon allegedly scammed the city out of $220,000.City investigators last week crowed about their take-down of Renauld Gregg, a Staten Island felon accused of swindling the

Source: How an ex-con, and the son of a judge, scammed the city out of $220G

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Gooferment “charity”?

Argh!

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Wise Food Storage Turns Over Purchase Records To Government As Part Of Shocking Class-Action Lawsuit |

Saturday, March 9, 2019

As part of the settlement agreement, Wise has been allowed to NOT change their advertising practices until they sell all of their existing inventory. We have been told by a Wise ex-employee familiar with the case that Wise has purchased large amounts of food inventory to allow them to “milk it as long as possible.”

Source: Wise Food Storage Turns Over Purchase Records To Government As Part Of Shocking Class-Action Lawsuit |

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What an awful “settlement”!  They should be OOB — Out Of Business.

Let’s pass the word and punish the bastards with the “invisible hand”.

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GOVERNACIDE: Chernobyl: The secrets they tried to bury – how the Soviet machine covered up a catastrophe

Saturday, March 9, 2019

In that way, the factory management kept health problems under wraps. They certified in a report to Kiev, which the factory’s chief engineer Maria Nogina signed, that the factory staff had no illnesses in connection with radioactivity. Nor, they wrote, had any workers suffered from any occupational health problems in the previous four years. Union records flatly contradict this statement; from 1987 to 1989, union representatives grew anxious about the ‘worrisome’ increase of illness at the factory. In regional farms, doctors reported a peculiar ‘guttural swelling’ among shepherds. Thirty years later, the women sorters and Nogina fingered their throats and described to me problems with thyroid disease, adult-onset diabetes and cancer. They mentioned other symptoms that sounded strange – aching joints and ‘legs that don’t go’, migraines, fainting spells and painfully twinging nerves. They attributed these unspecific health problems to Chernobyl. I was at a loss with what to do with these associations. Maybe, as critics would charge in the debates over Chernobyl health effects, the wool workers attributed normal symptoms of ageing to radiation. On the other hand, the sorters knew more about radiation than the average person. They grasped that some radioactive isotopes, such as ruthenium-106, settle in bone marrow, whereas others, like caesium-137, target muscle tissues, and radioactive iodine-131 gathers in the thyroid. They visualised the isotopes in their bones, joints and crumbling teeth.These women with no more than high-school education described to me how radioactive wastewater draining from the plant’s giant washing machines poured into a pond, and from there it was recycled into the municipal water-treatment facility to either return to the factory or float down the soft, brown currents of the Desna River. I corroborated this account of contaminated wastewater in the records. No manager I talked to remembered that detail.

Source: Chernobyl: The secrets they tried to bury – how the Soviet machine covered up a catastrophe

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Yeah, the Gooferment is your “friend”!

When I read this I thought of Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Christie Wittman’s appeared twice in New York City after the September 11 attacks to inform New Yorkers that the toxins released by the attacks posed no threat to their health! (#26  “Video: Health Effects of 9/11 Dust”. Google Video. Archived from the original on May 19, 2011.)

Yeah, right.

Special circle of Hell for politicians and bureaucrats.

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Ilhan Omar claims reporter misquoted her about Obama — then releases audio showing he was right | Daily Mail Online

Friday, March 8, 2019

Omar, 37, told a reporter that while she finds Trump objectionable, Obama escaped consequences of his own ‘bad policies’ because of his ‘pretty face.’ She claimed she was misquoted.

Source: Ilhan Omar claims reporter misquoted her about Obama — then releases audio showing he was right | Daily Mail Online

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Ilhan Omar SLAMS the reporter who quoted her saying Obama got ‘away with murder’ on drone strikes because he had a ‘pretty face’ – and then bizarrely releases audio that proves the journalist RIGHT

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Drone strikes are “murder”!

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VOCABULARY: OWI (Opining While Ignorant)

Friday, March 8, 2019

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Famed economist Murray Rothbard touched on the answer: “It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.” — Murray Rothbard

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