John Drake

That is true. But people are avoiding the elephant in the room. And that is what we pay physicians, nurses, hospital admin and staff. It's too much, and it's crippling the entire social system. I'd include insurance admin and processing too. Reducing the pay of the paper shufflers is central to the reform. But so is a reduction in payments to doctors and nurses. Just because someone graduates medical school should not give them a direct pathway to living the lifestyle of a Renaissance Pope.

When you're denied coverage in the emergency room and die of a heart attack, it's always good to know your heirs will eventually be allowed payment (minus deductible), I suppose.

Hence the three words on the bullets: delay, deny, depose.

It may have been the newly employed AI that caused the problem. Or people just feel that they no longer have control over their lives because of expenses.

This guy, Thompson, apparently had a pretty bad history of insider trading and pushing the envelope as far as creating a system that denied claims. Add in the really bizarre assassination, a better word than "killing," I think, and you have a situation that is going to send shivers down a lot of C-suite types in the healthcare business. The specialized subsonic pistol with a silencer and the three ejected bullets with words on them in permanent ink, "delay," "deny," "depose," I'm sure has them looking over their shoulders.

I think the US healthcare system has become such an abomination that there are likely thousands, if not tens of thousands, of time bombs out there who feel they haven't got anything to lose.

I don't mind using Fox News, but it didn't come up in my google search (I was looking for articles that specifically focused on the online response to the killing), which is another issue in and of itself I guess.

You only need to go to the AN topics on the US and see how many UK people spend their time there. OTOH, not many Americans go to the UK topics. I know I maybe read five or so percent of them, and rarely post a message. And as for "John Drake," McGoohan was born and died in the US; he was an American citizen; he worked in the US; he was not a British citizen. You're free to claim Peter Lawford, however, if you want him.

I used the Guardian because the other acceptable to AN sources were behind a paywall.

Seems most people don't care. This guy headed up a company that employed an AI that at one point was denying 90 percent of claims.

It's a TV show. Not reality. What I posted was simple fact. People in the US don't give much thought at all to what happens in the UK, while UKers obsess over America and Americans, as your post demonstrates. BTW, "John Drake" worked for World Wide Travel" in New York City, where he was stationed.

Here is the key difference: People in the UK seem to think about and be obsessed with the US all the time. In the US, we hardly think about the UK at all.

Well, I'm not left. At all. But I did predict, repeatedly, that Harris would win. I then admitted I was wrong and did so in several topics. BTW, where's Placeholder?

They're all going to walk.

Only citizens should be eligible for social security, medicare, and medicaid. And being head of a household does not bring in non-citizen family members into any program.

This is what Thailand wants. BTW, these foreign universities with campuses in the target countries mostly hire from their originating country. I don't think places like Mahidol and Chula are going to be very happy about this. https://studymalaysia.com/education/top-stories/foreign-university-branch-campus-your-route-to-getting-a-foreign-degree-right-here-in-malaysia

What is going on is Thailand's university age demographic hit its high 14 years ago and has been in decline since then. They have more universities and colleges than students need. That's why so many of the Thai private universities are now filled with PRC Chinese students. The Chinese students btw are pretty good. One thing that might answer your question is that Thai universities must be situated on land in order to be certified. There was a problem several years ago where MU or MUIC, can't remember which, was running a graduate business program in some office towers in downtown Bangkok. I don't remember how it worked out, but they had to fix it. So, yes, property, maybe an industrial estate, could be some of the reasoning behind this latest gambit. I also remember that SAE Institute ran into a problem because it's program was offered in the Zen building next to Central World. Middlesex tried to operate through SAE but ran into the property problem.

It happens elsewhere in SE Asia. NYU had a campus in Singapore but it failed. Malaysia and China have partner universities with the West. Middlesex University in the UK used to run a semi-scam in Thailand, where Thais got a degree from there but never had to go on campus. They could just pay for it while they worked on a degree in Thailand. Northumbria tried this about 15 years ago, too. Don't know if they're still here.

One of the dumbest things I've ever read on this forum. It might have made more sense if 7 had partnered with the Indian and Russian embassies, since their people are the ones that seem to hang out there.

Reshoring has already started. Biden's CHIPS act was perhaps the most important component. Things like electronics and communication gear should only be made in the US. The same goes for medicines and their ingredients.

Chinese + digital nomad = SCAM

I keep a PO Box at the Taling Chan office. Service is reliable, fast, friendly, and helpful. Both for mail going out and coming in.

It's up but down.

The US doesn't need Saudi oil at all. It produces more than it needs. The US exports energy. It's one of the things the Biden people were right about in their campaign, US energy self sufficiency. And the more alternative energy becomes available, the more that self sufficiency increases for things like biofuels, SAF, selected solar (not windmills which are a boondoggle).

Uh, oh. Thailand.