Mr. WEO

You can't agree with it....then you lay out the argument proving my point. Thank you. Also, the best athletes of the day were more likely working for a living after, say, college instead of playing baseball. Settle down. Instead of stomping, you are tripping over your untied shoelaces. I didn't say Brady is more dominant, just that he has been great for a long period of time in a far more complex and difficult sport against the best athletes. Ruth clearly did not (see below). You, on the other hand, claimed that without Ruth, "all of sports would have died". You support that silliness by saying citing articles saying he saved baseball (which I have already agreed was true). And something about Bill Russell... Pitchers have always scuffed the balls and doctored them with substances. But I'm sure you knew that. "Back then", baseball was completely white. It wouldn't become brown until 1945--10 years after Ruth left the game. Any suggestion that Ruth played against "the best athletes of his time" is plainly false.

I have already said Ruth saved baseball. Doesn't change that had he not existed, there would have been no sports in existence to make it to the TV era. That's just ridiculous. Have someone nearby you read it out loud if you're not sure of this. Brady didn't change sports or football. You're confabulating and fabricating arguments to rail against--- once again gone off the deep end in your patriots paranoia. But...as a former performer, this is all more likely just an act....an ongoing troll job. No one would truly think this way... a few years ago there were too many HRs--they blamed the balls Now there are far fewer...they are blaming the balls. You make it sound like they were tossing sawdust filled socks back then.

Medical school isn't meaningful training (you specifically said "not shadowing"). If you are concerned about a Cardiology NP not being up to snuff for your initial consult, then you certainly may request to be seen by the MD--be prepared to wait much longer for an appointment where he/she will also just order labs/EKG/ECHO/Stress test, just like the midlevel would have done. This is how it has worked in this country for decades because there aren't enough specialists in most communities to see every patient. How or why this would, in 2022, be news to you...is a mystery. wtf?

That's why the place to start is the Medicare local reimbursement. Multiple products make it straightforward to get local pricing info--in fact to make obvious if your hospital is in compliance.

I refuse to admit that a QB who couldn't win many games, could throw for many yards or TDs and couldn't evade a sack can be compared in a meaningful way to Kelly or Allen based on a "cherry picked stat" of completion % (of under 60% no less). If the best you can say about RJ is that in 2000, he was "nearly average" in completion %, so he was just like Jim Kelly before him and Josh Allen after him then have at it lol. It's not a point worth making. He sucked, by all measures.

Ruth was the outlier for his era, obviously. Chamberlain was likely the greatest athlete to play a major pro sport. And he dominated against better competition than Ruth in his day. That's a testament to the inane power these guys have, not a massive change in wooden bat tech. Ruth was a great hitter, plain and simple.

a silly argument. TV "saved" sports. In his playing days, relatively speaking, almost no one had actually seen Ruth play. Maybe they heard the games on the radio and saw some newsreels at intermission at the movie theater, but he was done years before MLB was televised. People mostly read about him at the time. Had he never existed, television would have put all sports in every home with a TV. This, not choppy films or static filled radio calls of Ruth's exploits, made sports in this country. He helped get MLB out of it's 1919 scandal perhaps (although his own "scandalous" life prohibited him from. owning a team in his later years).

Ruths intangibles didn’t include staying in shape. Batters face an army of fresh arms on the mound every game:starter, middle inning guy, setup guy, closer. Safe to assume any heat Ruth faced in the first 4-5 innings was doused by the last few innings.

well then Ruth can’t be the standard for total dominance if the game he played is all but unrecognizable today.

I was responding to the claim this info simply cannot be known. That’s not true. The law went into effect just last year. Poor compliance doesn’t make it impossible to get this info from a hospital. Pointing out how this can be done fairly simply isn’t obscure.

Bills will never win a SB huh?

lol...ok

Mango doesn't even look...so he concluded no one does. Anyone can look it up and ask the hospital if these are cash prices or negotiated. Plus they can start the conversation already with the Medicare price info in their hands. Hospitals hat don't give the info you can avoid. Competition will compel them to comply at some point.

How many great WRs and RBs did Brady play with in NE over nearly 2 decades? Bills are a pretty complete team, no?

Cash prices are always maximum prices--and very few insured pay any cash other than standard copays and whatever the deductible they have chosen in their plan. The negotiated price info is available. The article you posted from Rice shows that consumers can easily see the pricing differences listed by hospitals in the same city for the same procedure. Consumers then make a choice based on price, if they wish. Who would chose the more expensive hospital? Noncompliance with the law does not mean no information can be found. The other poster claimed he had no idea of cost until he gets a bill. There's no need for that to be true. Shop around. Also, one can easily use one of several apps to see the local Medicare reimbursement for procedures to get an idea of what insurers actually pay the hospital. Many ways to be savvy about this.

This would only affect federal funding via tax breaks. The new stadium is funded. NYS governor can splurge all she/he wants on billionaire gifts. This would have massively affected the funding of Yankee stadium, Citifield, etc....

this just in...

how many NFL players "started" to dominate after 3 SBs/6 seasons-----and continued do so for 15 more years? get back to me

Brady has had to compete agaisnt far better athletes all over the field, not just other QBs. Yet he has dominated for many years, still well ahead of the field (in QB terms) at age 44 a year ago. Ruth faced a bunch of ham and Eggers most of the time. He looks like he was taking BP in those old films. A far superior athlete in Barry Bonds had to subsequently get jacked on steroids to hit more HRs than Ruth because he was regularly facing far better starters and closers (didn't really exist in Ruth's day) than existed in Ruth's day. Ruth doesn't get 30 HR facing pitchers of Bonds's heyday. Curt Schilling, Pedro, Glavine, Maddux, Smoltz (on one team!), Clemens......Randy Johnson would have destroyed Ruth.

Only if they choose not to. The time you spend with your specialist doctor will always vary--patients with any experience in the health care system have always known this. They also know on many visit they will see the midlevel provider for ongoing care---also not new. I guess if you are someone with little or no contact with health care, you may be surprised that you aren't seeing a doctor. But patients over 30 without prior contact with the the system are an extreme rarity, perhaps you are one of those? Of course, when you make the appointment, you could simply ask who will be seeing you. Similarly, as for how much testing will cost, federal law requires hospitals to post the cost of tests and procedures online. No reason to have "no idea" what the costs will be.

actually it’s a boon for the consumer.

Black markers are thriving in weed legal states because they price below legal market sellers, whose product is heavily taxed. California, longtime a legal state, black market sales have increased with time.

Decriminalizing would positively impact the lives of the consensual workers disproportionately to the trafficked. However as a trafficked worker, being serially arrested won’t improve your lot. Trafficked kitchen workers, for instance, don’t face this risk by cooking food free people are willing to pay for.

Certainly not true in the US. Trafficking is a massive problem and it is worldwide. Knowing this, US law enforcement will often conflate trafficking and sex work in order to set up busts. This is apparently what happened in this Florida case. A massive trafficking ring was promised, none was found there and the DA had to walk it all back. The implication is that no person would willingly enter the sex trade unless forced or coerced. Consensual sex trade exists and has advocacy groups such as SWOP that argue for the destigmatizing and legalization of the trade as a way to reduce violence and abuse of workers.

Most "medical consumers" know exactly what they are paying for (more accurately, what their insurer or the public is paying for). It has been routine for decades in this country for patients to see providers other than an MD/DO. NP's have long been licensed to practice unsupervised. PAs less so. MDs aren't being "replaced"--there simply aren't enough of them (and a lot of them aren't very good). Your "attending physician" doesn't need close to "a minimum of 21,000 hours of clinical training before practicing independently". A Primary Care or Family Medicine or Pediatric MD trains for 3 years and at most 80 hours a week (they don't come close to this). The most hours they could log would be 12,000. And still in their frist year of practice may be less useful to the patient than their seasoned NP/PA.