Below The Fold ...

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With universal health care doctors no longer need that massive back office to process payments. Not only don't they have to deal with multiple insurance companies (each with their own accounting systems) they don't have to chase after patients for payment. They just send the bills directly to the universal insurer (and they don't have to argue with insurance company claims people as to what is and is not covered).

That's a substantial reduction in the doctor's overhead.

Agreed.
Universal healthcare or single payer is a viable option.

 

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"Things like online patient databases requires join cooperation ..." R5 #180

And if the Internet is used only as a conduit of transmission, and not a permanent storage repository, coordination if any is internal.

"Grant money for research is the opposite of the profit motive." R5 #180

Grant money for research is the opposite of the profit motive for the bureaucrats employed to administer such things. BUT
the recipient universities are the beneficiaries.
In simplified / illustrative math:
Without grants the University pays $100% of such university operation.
If grants comprise 25% of that budget, because money is fungible, the grant money liberates 25% for any other purpose:
- additional unrelated research
- tuition reduction
- scholarship supplementation
- whatever

"It is voluntary money invested in the hope of later voluntary benefits in return." R5 #180

And it was a prominent element of what had put the U.S. on top.

And now that President Trump has severely sabotaged this, the U.S. appears to be careening toward subordinate global status.

"That is why almost all research and development happens at universities, and private companies almost never achieve anything themselves.
Which should have us questioning why even bother with private companies?" R5 #180

It's a two-sided coin.

I'm not squeamish about $Billionaires rolling the dice. It's their money.

 

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And if the Internet is used only as a conduit of transmission, and not a permanent storage repository, coordination if any is internal.


Grant money for research is the opposite of the profit motive for the bureaucrats employed to administer such things. BUT
the recipient universities are the beneficiaries.
In simplified / illustrative math:
Without grants the University pays $100% of such university operation.
If grants comprise 25% of that budget, because money is fungible, the grant money liberates 25% for any other purpose:
- additional unrelated research
- tuition reduction
- scholarship supplementation
- whatever


And it was a prominent element of what had put the U.S. on top.

And now that President Trump has severely sabotaged this, the U.S. appears to be careening toward subordinate global status.


It's a two-sided coin.

I'm not squeamish about $Billionaires rolling the dice. It's their money.

The problem of "$Billionaires rolling the dice" is that they concentrate on returns and don't at all care what harm they do.
Like the Moderna and Pfizer mRNA injections for covid, that they each made $60 billion apiece on, but was extremely harmful instead of good.

 

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Below The Fold ... (below the belt?)​

Marjorie Taylor Greene Says MAGA 'Was All a Lie' and Claims Trump Is Only Serving 'Big, Big Donors'​

In a new interview, the former Republican congresswoman also suggested that Baby Boomers are the most "brainwashed generation"​

Paloma Chavez / Mon, February 2, 2026 at 8:43 PM EST

• During an interview with Kim Iverson, former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene slammed the Trump administration, saying the Make America Great Again movement "was all a lie"
• "People always think, ‘Oh, it’s his staff.’ They want to blame everyone around him. There may be a point where people have to come to grips with this is Donald Trump," she added.
• Greene also criticized Fox News, accusing the outlet of spoon-feeding baby boomers propaganda on TV

Former Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene called out one-time ally President Donald Trump for abandoning the core promises behind his Make America Great Again campaign.
“MAGA is, I think, people are realizing, it was all a lie,” she told YouTube host Kim Iversen on Wednesday, Jan. 28. “It was a big lie for the people.”

Marjorie Taylor Greene Says MAGA 'Was All a Lie' and Claims Trump Is Only Serving 'Big, Big Donors'

In a new interview, the former Republican congresswoman also suggested that Baby Boomers are the most "brainwashed generation"

news.yahoo.com

MTG tells the truth, and it gets headlines. Welcome to America

 

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Hell has definitely frozen over - MTG is telling the truth.