Ron78

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I saw Cop Land for the first time yesterday.  Really not a very good movie, but man it had an all-star cast.

On 1/1/2017 at 3:14 PM, Dont Taze Me Bro said:

Not a Trekie by any means.  I remember watching the original series re-broadcasts on Saturdays as a kid along with just about all the movies over the years (probably missed a couple in the Next Generation).  And watched some Deep Space Nine (is that the one with the borg?)  in college here and there as my roommate was a trekie.  

 

Anyhow, I've decided to watch all of them (movies included) in chronological order (show timeline - not actual release dates).  Been watching Enterprise the past few days.  So could someone with more knowledge than myself list out all the shows/movies in order to watch them?  I know Enterprise takes place long before the original series, so I started there.  I'm assuming that the movies (with exception to the reboots) tie into the order as well.  

On 1/19/2017 at 1:25 AM, PokerPacker said:

Voyager is the one with the borg.

 

As for chronological order, I believe it should go:
Enterprise

The Original Series

The Animated Series

Star Trek 1-6

Next Generation

Deep Space 9

Voyager (Next Gen, DS9, and Voyager all took place in the same era; not 100% sure of full chronological order, but Next Gen should be before DS9)

Generations

First Contact

Insurrection

Nemesis

You should watch the Generations and First Contact movies before watching Voyager.  There is some context in First Contact that becomes relevant in later seasons of Voyager.

On 12/14/2016 at 9:11 PM, Rdskns2000 said:

http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/star-trek/250209/star-trek-discovery-cast-trailer-and-release-date

This show bears no resemblance to other incarnations of the show, and that is not appealing.  It really looks awful. CBS expects people to subscribe to their service just to watch this show?

I saw this movie Dangal (2016) last night.  It is entirely in Hindi but has English subtitles.  Fantastic movie based on a true story about an Indian national wrestling champion who trained his daughters to be wrestlers.  Very much worth seeing (especially if you ever wrestled).

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

2016

It was a solid Star Wars flic.  Really enjoyed it.  Much better than The Force Awakens.  It filled in some plot holes of some of the original Star Wars films.

2 minutes ago, Larry said:

 

Your support for the assertion that deductibles and copays "have spiked as a direct result of Obamacare" is?  

 

(To me, the only way to show that would be to post the numbers for the nation as a whole, for some time period, like 5-10 years prior to Obamacare, and then the same numbers after Obamacare.)  

 

(I really wish I had such numbers.  I wonder if maybe they don;t exist.  It's the only reason I can think of, to explain why neither side has trotted them out, in support of their side.)  

 

About the only "whole country, aggregate, before vs after" statistic I've seen is that since Obamacare, total health care spending, for the nation, has gone up, but at a slower rate than it was going up, before Obamacare.  (If we choose, we can then take that statistic and start arguing the distinction between correlation and causation, I suppose.)  

 

 

And such people represent people who "used to have coverage, but don't any more"?  Or are they people who didn't have coverage, and still don't?  (And, if the latter, how do we get from there to "Now, when uninsured people get treated, their non-payment is Obamacare's fault"?  

 

The statistic does seem clear that the aggregate number of people who are uninsured has gone down, under Obamacare.  (Granted, not by the huge numbers that were predicted.)  

 

Increased deductibles under Obamacare is not news.

 http://www.cbsnews.com/news/obamacare-deductibles-deliver-hefty-sticker-shock/

Sure, your Affordable Care Act is working famously.

Just now, Larry said:

 

I'm pretty sure that deductibles and copays have existed for at least 40 years.  And have been going up for some time, well before Obamacare.  

 

I'm also pretty sure that there were a whole lot of non-payment before, too.  Including people who used to have no insurance at all (and now have deductibles and copays, instead.)  

 

I don't doubt your (completely unsupported) assertion that maybe those amounts are increasing.  If for no other reason that I bet they've been increasing before Obamacare, too.  

 

In short, without some good, whole-country, apples to apples numbers, it's really hard for folks out here in the audience to tell whether this is simply another one in the long list of people taking something that's been happening for decades, and claiming that now it's all Obamacare's fault.  

 

(Although, I also have to say that, even if all you've got to support your assertion is simply your own assertion?  It's possible that your position, itself, lends some credibility to the assertion.)  

Yes.  Deductibles and copays have existed for a long time, and now they have spiked as a direct result of Obamacare. 

Yes.  Non-payment has existed for a very long time too, but now there is more patient liability, so there is even more not being paid.  Not everyone has coverage because many younger, healthier people are choosing to pay the tax penalty instead of for coverage.

I don't have data for you, but I believe people will ultimately fall where their political loyalties lie anyway.  Also, it's reality that the Trump administration is going to change health care regardless of what people hash out in this thread.

5 minutes ago, Larry said:

 

In what way(s) has Obamacare changed reimbursement?  

In a nutshell, it has significantly increased the percentage that patients owe of allowed reimbursement amounts.  For example, subscriber deductibles, copays, or coinsurances are often higher than what they were before Obamacare.  So, insurance companies are not paying as much of their allowed amounts as they were prior to Obamacare, and patients are not paying all of the high patient liabilities assessed by the insurance companies either.  This results in hospitals sending more of their patient liability to bad debt, which is often either negotiated down or simply goes unpaid.

2 hours ago, Hersh said:

Do you have numbers to back this up? What do you think hospitals did all those years before Obamacare when people without insurance would show up to a hospital? 

First hand experience.  I work in the financial sector of the Health Care industry.  Obamacare is costing hospitals a good chunk of money because of the way it has changed reimbursement.

2 hours ago, Larry said:

 

Do you actually think that those words you've strung together form a coherent point?  

That was a substantive response.  :eyes roll:

Hospitals are taking a hit due to Obamacare.  Since health insurance companies are assessing greater patient deductibles, the insurance companies are themselves paying out less of their allowed amounts, and patients are not paying what they owe.  So, hospitals are eating loses all across the country.  The Affordable Care Act is a bust and needs to be repealed.