Tisme
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So he's a Socialist?
Absolutely .... if you compare him to Colonel Charles de Laet Waldo Sibthorpe , but only just.
So he's a Socialist?
Mars is not the place to raise your kids
In fact it's cold as hell
And there's no one there to raise them if you did...
Absolutely .... if you compare him to Colonel Charles de Laet Waldo Sibthorpe , but only just.![]()
I'd imagine that without wikipedia most of your good jokes would fall pretty flat.
Yeah, I am a tragic for old history, old novels, encyclopedia, etc, especially facts, but I do very well at trivia nights because of it.![]()
Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong
Healthcare sunk by Buffett and co
Health stocks were hit hard after Amazon, JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway announced they would join forces to start a new healthcare company— to lower healthcare costs for their hundreds of thousands of US employees.
The industry titans said this venture will be "free from profit-making incentives and constraints" as they take on the inefficient and expensive American healthcare system.
"The ballooning costs of healthcare act as a hungry tapeworm on the American economy," said Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway's chairman and CEO.
"Our group does not come to this problem with answers. But we also do not accept it as inevitable."
In a statement, Berkshire said the initial focus of the joint venture will be on "technology solutions" to bring about simplified and cheaper healthcare.
Now here is a novel proposal, health insurance that doesn't make a profit.
Warren Buffett, JP Morgan and Amazon are starting a health care scheme aimed at reducing the cost of health care for their employees and the established health care companies don't like it a bit.
Go Warren !
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-...amup-healthcare-dow-jones-wall-street/9377446
Those three aren't known for their non-profit gig though. Buffett is giving away most of his fortune but here he's running a business, not in the charity mode. The other two...
Did you know that Amazon would rather have an ambulance stand waiting outside their warehouse in case their employee faint... that rather than turn on the air conditioning to make the place more comfortable where people don't have to faint? Cost/Benefit.
That and Amazon targets older/senior workers. Use psycho-babble but pay them diddly. And like Wal-Mart, they show their underpaid employees how to get food stamps and gov't welfare... all that even though their employees work full time, not paid enough to live.
All these is to keep the costs of healthcare down as they themselves control it. So they keep the fund/premium in-house, negotiate better deals.
Does that mean they pass the savings on? Maybe a few bucks discount.
What's more scary would be employees' privacy. What if the company's doctors' record show this employee have a high chance of X, very expensive, illness?
They fired that's what.
You're always so negative !
Has the Wall Street bubble burst ?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-...nvestors-anxious-asx-reporting-season/9387374
Trump doesn't look so great now does he ?
Dow Jones plunges 1,068 points, Wall Street bloodbath intensifies
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-06/wall-street-bloodbath-dow-jones-falls-over-1000-points/9399268
4% isn't big bickies
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