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As I said previously (I think just a few posts back), nothing wrong with using something to help curb the carb/sugar/processed grains addiction if you can't do it on willpower alone. Once you get over that, which should only take a few weeks to a month really, then you really shouldn't need anything. I used to be just starving at lunch time and have a rather large lunch, then I'd be starving when I got home (and eat a bunch of snacks), then eat dinner a few hours later. There was this one time at my old job (about 10 years old at this point) where they changed our lunch time from noon to 12:30 and so many of us were just starving because we all got used to eating at that time. We looked up the law on lunches even and got the time put back because the law says (in Illinois at least, not sure if federal or state law) that you must get a lunch break within 5 hours of starting work (we started at 7am). With all that said, I now skip lunch (and breakfast) basically everyday. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, I don't even eat anything until after 9pm when I go out to dinner with friends (after we play board games). Today, I was just chilling at home all day and all I had was some leftovers basically; I had a banana, I had a leftover slice of chocolate cream pie (from Round the Clock on Wednesday as like everything comes with a dessert), and I had a leftover chili from Culvers that I got Thursday. I can go all day without really getting hungry at all and I legit don't even think about food until 2/3pm at the very earliest of any given day. Once you break that cycle of a bad diet, it is rather easy, it's the breaking it that is the hard part. And if I told past-me this just a few years ago, I would've called bullshit on the whole "not being hungry" talk that I'm currently saying.

You really just have to eat real foods and so many things just fixed themselves. I have the occasional treat like that chocolate cream pie or about once a week I go to Culvers when they have a favorite flavor of the day custard or at a party I kinda don't care what I eat. Outside of those occasional cheats, I just eat actual foods and I eat out for like every meal because I'm not a good cook at all, the myth that you can't eat healthy when eating out is a myth. For example, at Five Guys, I get the burger, ask for a cup for water, and eat the free peanuts as my side; the only unhealthy thing in that meal is the bun and most of the condiments (but you don't have to be perfect either). Most standard fast food places that have basically nothing healthy to eat like McDonalds or Taco Bell or Burger King, I simply don't go to and don't consider them restaurants because they don't sell food IMO. I'll go to a legit Mexican place if I want Mexican and I literally walk in, order a carry-out (not even calling in), and I have my food in 5 mins; that's faster than Taco Bell, I really don't understand how Taco Bell exists honestly when there's so many real Mexican restaurants. I haven't ordered any fried foods (not even fries) in probably 3 years. You just gotta tell yourself certain things aren't food anymore and just don't eat them outside of rare occasions.
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Bro, idk how to tell you this, but nothing that you described in that post is particularly "healthy" and I would say that a few of those things are downright unhealthy.
 
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Phoenixmgs said:
Insurers own the PBMs.
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No, not quite. PBMs are their own companies. Some are subsidiaries of the same parent company as an insurance provider, but that's not the same thing: their income and accounting are separate.

And vitally, you have to remember that a PBM may be negotiating on behalf of insurance companies that aren't affiliated with it. Insurance companies often hire outside companies to handle negotiation.

I said doctors need checks on them as well. That doesn't mean I'm anti doctor and pro insurance company. I posted the video about the broken system, what stance have I changed? I changed my take that ozempic is super expensive after tstorm corrected my initial stance. Why can't you admit you're wrong?
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Because you haven't shown a single way in which I am wrong. You said doctors need "checks"... but you want those checks to come from profit-motivated entities that you admit are broken, and which have no medical expertise. On one hand, you defend the insurance companies and pharmaceutical manufacturers, arguing they don't make huge profits and shouldn't lower prices... and then a minute later you say they're all broken and that's why prices are high. It's all so incoherent and muddled.

Because the condition (that requires the drug) is now cheaper to treat when the drug drops in price. They don't want spending to drop; hence, they stopped covering the drug when it dropped in price to cover a different drug that's still a high price. If spending drops, that 20% is less money. Why else would they decline the cheaper drug?
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They don't want whose spending to drop? Stop and think for a moment.

You said their only revenue was from insurance premiums. That's their sole income. That wouldn't drop if the drug cost to insurers went down.
 
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Just in case anyone starts feeling hopeful - Am not sure is wise to hope that followers would process disappointment and betrayal as a learning opportunity, as the whole reason qanon kicked off the way it did a year after his first term was cause it directly appeased the desperation voters increasingly felt to preserve their pride in the face of constant broken promises. It eased the cognitive dissonance effectively. Can only imagine this time around will develop a whole extra dimension of mass psychosis to further fuck with what's left of democracy.
 
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Agema said:
The Republicans are still the party of business. Except the Trump wing exposes the fact that the modern Republican Party voter base have some extremely business-hostile policy ideas. This is a schism we're going to see play out over the coming years.
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That isn't how parties work in American politics. There have always been conflicting positions within party, both parties have always had pro and anti business factions, both have war hawks and isolationists, etc. The defining division in American political parties is not the policies being proposed, but rather who decides. What is the power of the states? What is the power of the nation? What are the rights of the people? These are the questions that split our politics. The Republican Party has busted up both business trusts and unions in the past, pro and anti business policies can (and should) exist within a party. You're not going to see a meaningful schism in Republicanism until "one nation, under God" is called into question.
 
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If you ever think you're going crazy, remember that this is considered "fat" by anti-woke standards.
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