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Echono2331 karma

During Mr. Bourdain's AMA Reddit already came to a consensus on the next show for you both: (credit to /u/Toynbee1)

Brown and Bourdain travel across the world, tracing modern, familiar dishes to their cultural nascency. Brown supplies the facts, Bourdain supplies the color. It's called A to B.

How much do we have to bug you two now to make this a thing?

Echono456 karma

For the record, Lucky Yates voices Dr. Krieger in Archer and has made numerous appearances as characters on Good Eats, most prominently as the Dungeon Master.

Echono415 karma

Valid responses:

"Not I'm my new draft they didn't."

Or:

"Really? Is that how you interpreted the scene?"

Echono5 karma

Obamacare essentially is meant to keep insurance companies from dropping people from plans if they get too sick (yes it happens), keep them from refusing insurance to people due to pre-existing conditions or other factors, cap them from spending obscene money on things that aren't their customer's healthcare costs, and help poorer people find and afford healthcare.

Because these new rules also mean you could not have insurance until you get sick, then force an insurance companies to insure you soon as you are- which would game the system- the controversial 'tax' requiring people to have insurance was enacted to counter such abuses.

Its different from the Canadian system in that its not centralizing healthcare inside the government, but instead is trying to band-aid our current insurance company system to make it semi-functional. While technically an improvement, its still a mess due to its own convoluted details and its detractors resisting or even intentionally trying to sabotage it.

Main reason US won't adopt a Canadian system is simply because too many people refuse to. They think its socialism, that they won't get treated, that all their money will get taken in taxes, that the government will rule whether you should be allowed to live or die. Its just propaganda and bullshit generated up by those who profit from the status quo or hate giving an opposing politician any sort of victory. Even if we get past that though, the US is far larger, more populated, diverse and frankly more complicated than Canada. Shifting to a universal system is a MASSIVE challenge that will have tons of problems to fix, even though its going to need to be done eventually.

Echono1 karma

How genuine do you think their fear of you was? Or do you see it as merely a convenient pretense for the professor and/or chairwoman to act punitively to someone they disliked?