Insurance companies did quite well this year. Here is their report thru 3rd quarter 2024.

For number crunching folks who can make sense of it all.
Still making BIllions off the backs of the sick.

U.S. Health Insurance Industry Analysis Report
HEALTH INDUSTRY OVERVIEW
Table 1 below provides a 5-year quarterly snapshot of the U.S. Health
insurance industry’s aggregate financial results for health entities who file
with the NAIC on the health quarterly statement blank. The health
insurance industry reported an underwriting gain of over $12 billion, a 31%
decline from approximately $18 billion for the same period a year earlier.
Similarly, net income decreased 14% to approximately $16 billion for the
first six months of 2024 compared to the same period in the prior year. The
industry’s profit margin decreased moderately to 2.7% from 3.3%, while the
combined ratio increased by a moderate 110 basis-points.
Notable items as compared to second quarter 2023 include the following:
 Hospital & medical expenses increased 7% ($35 billion)
 Net earned premium increased 5% ($29 billion)
 Administrative expenses increased 2% ($2 billion)
 Enrollment decreased 3% (9 million)
 Cash flow from operations dropped 86% to $9 billion from $67 billion
 Capital and surplus increased 4% ($9 billion) to over $224 billion from $215 billion at December 31, 2023

Much MUCH more at link….9 pages

https://content.naic.org/sites/default/files/health-2024mid-year-industry-report.pdf

Our world is in deep, deep trouble. Not only America, but every single person on the planet.

Putin will devour us, once and for all with no one to stop him.
JD Vance will take Project 2025 and decimate our Constitution.
Trump will pardon all of his friends. No more Jack Smith investigation.
I will probably grow to hate every family member I have because these are the people responsible for the coming deluge. I will finally say out loud to them, I told you so!
No global warming anymore. FEMA will be a pipe dream.
ACA will vanish. No more FDA and EPA.

I wonder if I need to move some money around and leave this country forever.

So I was playing around with Chat GPT and plugged in some numbers. Specifically to find out

How much the US gave in goods and Money to Ukraine in 2023. Here is the answer:

In 2023, the U.S. has provided significant aid to Ukraine, primarily for its defense against Russia’s invasion. By the end of the fiscal year, total U.S. assistance to Ukraine since the start of the war had reached about $175 billion. This includes over $106 billion directly for Ukraine’s government, with most of the funds going toward military assistance. Approximately $62 billion was allocated to the U.S. Department of Defense for military support, such as weapons, equipment, and training, while $46 billion was channeled through the State Department and USAID for humanitarian and economic aid  .
In 2023 alone, over $33.6 billion was dedicated to defense manufacturing and replacing U.S. military stockpiles used in Ukraine . Additionally, significant amounts were allocated for Ukrainian civil services, economic stabilization, and assistance to displaced Ukrainians.

Then I asked it this… how much the NFL spent on Salaries last year?
In 2024, the NFL’s salary cap for each team is estimated to be around $256 million. Since the NFL has 32 teams, the combined total salary of all NFL teams would be approximately:

So, the total salary cap for all NFL teams in 2024 is roughly $8.19 billion.
Jerry Jones (owner of the Dallas Cowboys) made $400-500 million last year alone, ( Including merchandise and concessions income)


My conclusion is that we haven’t given that much to Ukraine.

GPT is kind of fun. Like a smarter google.

Infants died at higher rates after abortion bans in the US, research shows

In the year and a half following the Supreme Court Dobbs decision that revoked the federal right to an abortion, hundreds more infants died than expected in the United States, new research shows. The vast majority of those infants had congenital anomalies, or birth defects.
…. They found that infant mortality was higher than usual in the US in several months after the Dobbs decision and never dropped to rates that were lower than expected.

In the months that infant mortality was higher than expected – October 2022, March 2023 and April 2023 – rates were about 7% higher than typical, leading to an average of 247 more infant deaths in each of those months.

About 80% of those additional infant deaths could be attributed to congenital anomalies, which were higher than expected in six of the 18 months following the Dobbs decision, according to the new research. Congenital anomalies can range from mild to severe cases, and some of the most common types can affect an infant’s heart or spine. In some cases, babies with a birth defect may only survive a few months.



[link:https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/21/health/infant-deaths-increase-post-dobbs-abortion-bans/index.html

Sally Fields talks about her abortion experience. Just love her.

I'm gonna woman'splain something to men here about abortion as health care. Just so you know.

Most women know this stuff but so many men don’t that I’m going to use my nursing background to tell you. I also have had personal experience with a D&C after losing a twin pregnancy at 20 weeks.
Pregnancy 101 starts here.
Apologies in advance if this is too rudimentary for you.
A D&C is a surgical procedure to remove abnormal tissues from the uterine lining. Dilation and curettage (D&C) is a surgical procedure in which the cervix is opened (dilated) and a thin instrument is inserted into the uterus. This instrument is used to remove tissue from the inside of the uterus (curettage).
Statistically, It is safer than having a tooth pulled.

When a woman miscarries several things can go bad. During the first 3 months (first trimester =12 weeks)
a woman’s hormones may dip or fluctuate so much that the pregnancy is unsustainable. Sometimes the fetus is malformed or incomplete and isn’t going to keep growing normally. Maybe a trauma happens;
at any rate the fetus isn’t going to make it. Sometimes women choose to get an abortion for whatever reasons they have. Plan B pills are designed to open and empty the uterus by stimulating a period within a few days of conception. Most of the time these drugs work well and women don’t need to see a Dr at all.
Most women in the first trimester just have a hard period and the uterus is emptied. Miscarriage is fairly common and most women have no complications. BUT sometimes there may be something left behind.
Now the uterus, by design is very vascular, after all we produce the bloody lining for an egg every month.
If something isn’t passed out it can keep bleeding or just stay behind. The body has hormones telling it hey, you’re pregnant and don’t let go. So that is considered an Incomplete abortion or miscarriage.
Point: The uterus is NOT empty and in some cases the hormones didn’t get the message.
Most people don’t know that during the first trimester a women’s blood volume is TRIPLED, so when we mean bleeding we are talking about a LOT of blood. The fetus is not yet an ounce in size at twelve weeks.
Most women have missed a period at 6 weeks. By the way abortion nationwide used to be available until 16 weeks. This was kind of the golden week when the heartbeat first starts up. At 20 weeks a fluttering is felt by the mother.
Around the transition into the second trimester things get tricky. Fetus/placenta is growing larger and with all that blood severe complications happen, and can happen quickly. When things go bad to worse, there are the most common problems.
Whatever is going on these problems mean the pregnancy is over, the fetus is dead or dying.
The point is NOTHING will sustain life.
Problems like:
The amniotic fluid is escaped, thru a tear or spontaneous rupture.
The placenta detached and no blood or nutrients can get to fetus.
The fetus just doesn’t develop as it should. Trauma can be a factor;
a fall or car wreck, the flu, or just a miscarriage happening late.
The problem at this point is if the fetus is dead and the contents are not expelled it festers.
The further along in the pregnancy the worse the complications.

Now Mom needs real HELP. Second trimester from 12- 20 weeks problems are much more serious.
She will need Mifepristone or a like drug to stimulate contractions to expel the remainder
and sometimes followed with a D&C to suction out anything left behind.
This is the SAME drug that is used in labor/delivery to stimulate labor or post partum bleeding.
Also some women will also need a D&C in a timely manner.

These drugs and procedures will save almost anybody. They are fairly simple to perform and effective.

Unless you wait.

A high fatality rate is associated with bleedouts. I am talking a LOT of blood, too. (Remember that blood volume is tripled by now).
NOW Mom needs a transfusion and possibly (in severe bleeds)
surgery to remove the uterus before they bleed to death. QUICKLY too. This is the way we used to do it.
Now with our draconian laws, the Dr thinks she will spontaneously abort on her own and he just has to wait for this. Fever, pain and advancing systemic infection is setting in.
Now, If the contents are still there, the patient may have waited weeks, sometime months the woman is going into sepsis. A systemic infection that goes into every organ . Kidneys shut down, patient can go into shock or a coma. Death is imminent. Surgery and heavy medical support is your only hope.
They will take the whole uterus is it gets this far.

NOW imagine bleeding out in a parking lot with your husband, because the Dr is worried about losing his or her license. Or losing consciousness and waking up without a uterus because YOU waited too long.
Or explaining to her family why she died.

I will add that I saw a statistic that most of the women that have abortions are married with 3 children at home.
Sorry if this went on too long, but I keep seeing erroneous posts about abortion (not here usually)
and had to clear this up.

Thanks for listening to my woman’splaining rant.

The Project 2025 Refugee Who Slid Into Your Socials

This is disturbing. Article from Aug 2024 but I just now saw it. Not sure anyone else worries about about ALL the NEWS is infiltrated and of course all of social media. Will DU be the last stop for truth?

Meta—the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp—has just hired Dustin Carmack, a former adviser to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s doomed presidential campaign and an ex–Project 2025 employee.
Harvard Cyberlaw Clinic instructor and attorney Alejandra Caraballo revealed the news on X (formerly Twitter) Monday afternoon, providing screenshots from Carmack’s LinkedIn profile, which he has since deactivated.

Caraballo pointed out that Meta’s hire was likely made to deflect criticism from conservatives—but it’s also meant to augment the firm’s interactions with state governments, as the company has “political positions to limit regulation and buy influence.”

But the move comes amid a period in which Meta’s treatment of users—specifically the type of user who runs afoul of much of what Project 2025 wants to do to the United States—has been called into question. In recent months, the LGBTQ+ rights group GLAAD has criticized Meta’s content moderation policies on its platforms, saying that they were effectively encouraging an “epidemic of anti-transgender hate” on their social media sites. The report showed a significant increase in anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ posts on Meta’s sites, noting that transgender people were routinely called “sexual predators,” “perverts,” and “groomers” in many of those posts.

More at link.
https://newrepublic.com/post/185306/project-2025-dustin-carmack-meta

So about Trumps Bibles that Oklahoma is putting in every classroom. Did you know that it SKIPPED the

Amendments 11-17? Yeah, really.
The Amendments that abolish slavery and the Women’s right to Vote?

Did they think we were gonna say, Looks good enough for me……

Rhiannon Giddens's Haunting "Swannanoa Tunnel" Arrives at a Time of Unprecedented Devastation in Western North Carolina

Listen to the North Carolina native’s heart-wrenching take on a centuries-old song, in the works before Hurricane Helene.


There was no way they could have known that this week, after Hurricane Helene barreled through Western North Carolina and left a path of destruction in its wake, the song would take on a whole new meaning.
… First sung in the late nineteenth century to the accompaniment of hammers striking steel, the song “Swannanoa Tunnel”—sometimes called “Asheville Junction”—details the plight of wrongfully imprisoned Black laborers leased to Western North Carolina Railroad and forced to build the tracks that would transport timber and other resources from Appalachia to the coast. Along the already hazardous route, the Swannanoa Gap proved one of the most treacherous sections, requiring six tunnels to be cut through mountains, including the 1,832-foot Swannanoa Tunnel. An estimated 125 to 300 laborers died in the effort.

Another boots video for Kamala but new and improved. You will love it.

This makes me so happy.

https://www.tiktok.com/@mind.your.damn.bu/video/7409517417250032927?_r=1&_t=8q8NcAvsX0A