I’d argue that you shifted the goal posts when you suggested that civil fines would be a possible path to punishment.

That’s all I was responding to. I never suggested that pardons would come into it.

I’m biased, because I work for a non-profit health system.

We have definitely been absorbing hospitals. There seem to be four major categories they fall into:

1. Hospitals that are doing well and fit very well with the system’s goals so they make a very positive addition to the system.

2. Hospitals that are surviving, but struggling and unable to compete against the for-profit bohemoths that are breathing down their neck.

3. Hospitals that have failed because they simply couldn’t compete and are leaving a community without any viable options for healthcare.

4. Hospitals that have failed because they were bought up by venture capitalists, assets sold off to benefit the VCs, and bankrupted when they couldn’t pay the debt that the VCs incurred for their purchase.

My employer is far from perfect, but there is no question that the single overriding mission is to provide healthcare. We are not a real estate mogul masquerading as a hospital system.

I couldn’t read the entire article, but the initial premise seems like something promoted by the for-profit healthcare industry to try to distract from their financial rape of their patients and communities.

Do you think there will be regulatory fines from HHS?

I mean, maybe if a hospital does something Secretary Brainworm doesn’t approve of like recommending vaccines or other proven, legitimate medical treatments, then they’d get fined. But failing to protect privacy? Why would HHS under this administration care?

TLDR:

He has to pay people to pretend to like him, so he thinks the people who hate him have been paid too.

It seems odd to me that they refer to the number of children treated as “fewer than 10”.

Why can’t they say how many?

Are they going to say that somehow the liberals crowded the place so there was no one there to back her up?

To which I’d say, in that case the conservatives fascists were too unmotivated to counter them.

I don’t think most people get a direct, personal warning of the possibility of being arrested.

The president can’t pardon someone for state crimes.

Most security doesn’t really require a lot of intelligence, but I think “happy to lick Trump’s asshole” is probably not an adequate qualification for positions in government.

We need to stop seeing governors and senators and representatives and saying, “they would be a great president!”

Instead we need to see teachers, co-workers, and neighbors and say, “they would be a great on the city council or county government or as a state representative.”

We need to stop thinking in terms of only one chance of victory every four years and start putting people who care about us in places where they can help.

Of course, that means we have to be prepared to run, and that is hard as hell. So many of us are stretched to the absolute limit just trying to survive. I honestly don’t understand how anyone can do it.

He isn’t going to pay them shit. He wants to make us pay them.

Or American really. The subset of Americans they care about is so close to zero it isn’t worth considering.

…so far.

Excuse me? What makes you think I’m a fascist?

That changed about a month ago.

I’ll believe it when I see something change.

Her company is also looking at alternative manufacturing sites in Sri Lanka, Vietnam and other lower-cost factories in China, she said.

Note that none of the options she is considering is U.S. manufacturing. Tariffs won’t bring jobs back to the U.S.

Betteridge’s law of headlines has never been as true for any headline as it is for this one.

The only way refusal to pay taxes will result in any change in the U.S. is if everyone refuses to pay.

Perhaps because they always were.

https://nypost.com/2024/04/27/opinion/columbia-students-rallied-against-nazis-now-they-them-on/

I would hope they would have a better understanding of tariffs than Trump.

Better option: short it.