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Typhoon wrote:So where does the money go?Mr. Perfect wrote:For profit Private insurance usually nets 2-3% profit. There is nothing there.Nonc Hilaire wrote: Non-profit status only disallows the distribution of dividends to shareholders and alters taxation. Non-profits are still businesses like any other. The bottom line usually labeled "profit" is renamed "revenue in excess of expenses".
That would do it. A candidate for machine learning a.k.a. "AI".Nonc Hilaire wrote:Typhoon wrote:So where does the money go?Mr. Perfect wrote:For profit Private insurance usually nets 2-3% profit. There is nothing there.Nonc Hilaire wrote: Non-profit status only disallows the distribution of dividends to shareholders and alters taxation. Non-profits are still businesses like any other. The bottom line usually labeled "profit" is renamed "revenue in excess of expenses".
Can AI launder money? Non-profits cannot distribute dividends, so profits are laundered through unnecessary orTyphoon wrote:That would do it. A candidate for machine learning a.k.a. "AI".Nonc Hilaire wrote:Typhoon wrote:So where does the money go?Mr. Perfect wrote:For profit Private insurance usually nets 2-3% profit. There is nothing there.Nonc Hilaire wrote: Non-profit status only disallows the distribution of dividends to shareholders and alters taxation. Non-profits are still businesses like any other. The bottom line usually labeled "profit" is renamed "revenue in excess of expenses".
President Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan invested a large chunk of political capital in health care. They didn’t know the market. The investment went south, taking with it a large store of political capital. Now they have less to play with.
few things were more entertaining than watching my full blown egalitarian UAW brothers go hard core right wing capitalist whenever they opened their wallets.noddy wrote:it depends on if you empathise with the old or poor needing the healthcare or the young and debt laden who are paying for it.
one things for certain is that the mobile rich arent involved.
https://youtu.be/uBiewQrpBBA?t=1m20sHeracleum Persicum wrote:.
Biden :
I regret not running for president
because I could have won
“I don’t have a lot of hope now,” Biden said. “I hope that he succeeds.”
Probably he could have won
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Once the sinks are provided, machine learning can be trained to do so.Nonc Hilaire wrote:Can AI launder money? Non-profits cannot distribute dividends, so profits are laundered through unnecessary orTyphoon wrote:That would do it. A candidate for machine learning a.k.a. "AI".Nonc Hilaire wrote:Typhoon wrote:So where does the money go?Mr. Perfect wrote:For profit Private insurance usually nets 2-3% profit. There is nothing there.Nonc Hilaire wrote: Non-profit status only disallows the distribution of dividends to shareholders and alters taxation. Non-profits are still businesses like any other. The bottom line usually labeled "profit" is renamed "revenue in excess of expenses".
non-existent administrative expenses.
Being stung once by a scorpion is bad enough, being stung twice . . .Nonc Hilaire wrote: Arizona woman feeling the pain from a $83,046 bill for anti-venom drug after seeking medical treatment for scorpion sting available across the border in Mexico for $100.
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Internet providers now just need a signature from President Trump before they're free to take, share, and even sell your web browsing history without your permission.
The growth of administers in Medicine is due to Health Insurances companies wanting more documentation of procedures performed. Congress has passed a lot of laws requiring such documentation at the behest of the health insurance industry. Much of it passed as medicare legistlationNonc Hilaire wrote:Typhoon wrote:So where does the money go?Mr. Perfect wrote:For profit Private insurance usually nets 2-3% profit. There is nothing there.Nonc Hilaire wrote: Non-profit status only disallows the distribution of dividends to shareholders and alters taxation. Non-profits are still businesses like any other. The bottom line usually labeled "profit" is renamed "revenue in excess of expenses".
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Americans live in two realities when it comes to the Russia investigation. On one side is the intelligence community, and on the other is a Republican Party that very much believes President Trump's alternative facts.
Including, apparently, that Trump's offices were wiretapped during the 2016 presidential campaign.
A new CBS poll shows that three in four Republicans believe it's at least “somewhat likely” that Trump's offices were wiretapped or under some kind of surveillance during the race. Although 35 percent think it's “very likely,” 39 percent say it's “somewhat likely.” About half (49 percent) of independents also say it's at least “somewhat likely.”
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Hotels and airlines in the US are cutting prices as tourists avoid the country in response to Donald Trump’s immigration policies ..
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“The message that we are giving to the administration is . . . it’s very much in our economic interest to present an open and friendly face to the world,” said Mr Khosrowshahi.
Mr Khosrowshahi, who moved to the US with his family from Iran in 1978, has been a vocal critic of the US government’s immigration policies, but insisted that his concern stems from the impact it could have on Expedia’s business.
“After the order was announced, there was panic in my family and it affected a bunch of folks in my family,” he says. “There was a lot of confusion. But that’s personal. I don’t want to let the personal come into [running] the company.”
Earlier this month, regulatory filings revealed that Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton, has been appointed to Expedia’s board.
Mr Khosrowshahi suggested Ms Clinton would provide diversity to its male-dominated board, while her relative youth, “global perspective” and work at her family’s international charity, the Clinton Foundation, provide a “pretty extraordinary” background.
However, he said her appointment was “in no way, shape or form a political statement”.
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The president and his associates mix anti-Semitic dog whistles with frank attacks on Muslims, immigrants and refugees.
The paradox is that in today’s America, coded anti-Semitism is more of a political taboo than open Islamophobia.
We spend a great deal of time and energy parsing the semiotics of Mr. Trump’s role in stoking anti-Jewish sentiment, while Muslims and immigrants can be defamed with impunity.
The risk here is that we’ve been distracted by the anti-Semitism controversy from the ways in which other groups are being demonized as Jews once were.
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Though he has almost no China background, Jared Kushner, Mr Trump’s son-in-law, is leading the US preparation for next week’s meeting. His counterpart is Cui Tiankai, China’s ambassador in Washington. That, alone, gives China an edge. Mr Cui is a professional diplomat who knows America well — he did his postgraduate studies in the US capital and worked as an interpreter at the UN.
Mr Kushner’s chief qualification is that he is married to the president’s daughter.
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China seems to have grasped that the best way to influence Mr Trump is via his family. Chinese diplomats have gone out of their way to court Mr Kushner and Ivanka Trump, who were their guests of honour at the Chinese new year celebration in February. China has also looked favourably on Mr Trump’s business.
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The backdrop to the meeting is surreal. Within Mr Trump’s first 70 days, China has taken over America’s role of defending the world trading system and assuming global leadership to tackle climate change.
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Under the move, the national intelligence director, Dan Coats, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, are again "regular attendees" of the NSC’s principals committee.
Odd that Bannon was appointed to the US NSC in the first place.Heracleum Persicum wrote:.
Bannon dropped from National Security Council
Under the move, the national intelligence director, Dan Coats, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, are again "regular attendees" of the NSC’s principals committee.
Bannon weirdo .. astonished how Donald even associates with him
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Typhoon wrote:.
Odd that Bannon was appointed to the US NSC in the first place.
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WASHINGTON — Thick with tension, the conversation this week between Stephen K. Bannon, the chief White House strategist, and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, had deteriorated to the point of breakdown.
Finally, Mr. Bannon identified why they could not compromise, according to someone with knowledge of the conversation. “Here’s the reason there’s no middle ground,” Mr. Bannon growled. “You’re a Democrat.”
. . much of the runway remained intact, describing the operation's efficiency as “quite poor.”