According to CNN the internet was suppose to end yesterday. I guess no one will see this post.
You may be eating those words if net neutrality is ended. Unless you want the governments input on what you see online.
Wikipedia :
Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers must treat all data on the Internet the same, and not discriminate or charge differently by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or method of communication.[4] For instance, under these principles, internet service providers are unable to intentionally block, slow down or charge money for specific websites and online content.
Which meant netflix (who championed neutrality) who has bandwidth-sucking HD content would be treated the same as your grandma's recipe blog.
"Neutrality" was devised by billion $ corps to protect their brands and pad their bottom line, not to protect consumers. Now that comcast/att/et al can change their pricing structure, expect more competitive rates and spending on internet infrastructure to to increase, and all while smaller startups can enter the market and compete directly with the providers
Until Netflix has agreements with telecom companies to prioritize it's traffic so your netflix bill goes up to pay for that as well as it takes you 20min to get grandma's recipe blog becuase she can't pay for the prioritized traffic tier. This is all a sham to make telecoms more money and it will NOT make things cheaper for the consumer.
Netflix just went up anyway, prior to net neutrality being repealed. I have a hard time believing that competition will somehow create this massive ISP conglomerate monopoly that's going to slowly jack up rates and box all poor people out of the internet. I also have a hard time believing that anything king Obama touched will somehow benefit me at any point. My health coverage continues to rise in cost and I was just informed that I'll be forced to cover an extra 10% of my health expenses......
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Do you think healthcare (actual service costs) will cost the same in 2018 as they were in 2017?
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No bc the fookin govt had to get involved.
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Do you recognize there is a difference between health care and health insurance?
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Ah I didn’t catch you said Healthcare and not insurance. I’m all about insurance right now as I’m trying to get a small group plan together for the shop and is pisses me off that everything has went so out of sight. But to answer your question yes I do know the difference. I may not be as well spoken as some but I’m not an idiot.
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Yeah, my first attempt, that i didn't post, was very condescending, but I figured I would do a test with the one I posted, and if you couldn't recognize the difference I would be wasting my time with any further discussion.
I didn't think you were an idiot, but not everyone recognizes the difference. I think one of the members here had a good point a long time ago (maybe Tony?). His position was, as you get older, you cost more to maintain and break down more often, so your health care cost will increase disproportionately compared to inflation. Or something similar to that. I think the same should apply to health insurance cost, but I presume the difficulty in managing the individuals makes it easier to manage within margins.
Now, I know that my company homogenizes our insurance cost, because a person age 32 pays the same as me at age 43. I think my costs should be higher than even the average 43 year old since I don't manage my weight, alcohol consumption, smoking, or other risks; I will cost more to maintain than most. Oh well.
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