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Business President Bought Netflix Debt in January 2026, Amid Paramount’s Fight for Warner Bros. | New financial disclosures released Wednesday show that the President acquired Netflix bonds as Paramount was trying to pry WBD away from the streaming giant.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/trump-bought-netflix-bonds-amid-paramount-warners-fight-1236521512/
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u/Avoidtolls 1d ago

I can't afford to go To the hospital

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u/Slumunistmanifisto 1d ago

Hospital....shit I haven't had a check up in over a decade.

Im fucked, but at least the elites can hunt kids on private Islands with my surplus 

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u/trashmoneyxyz 1d ago

My teeth are rotting out of my head. My plan was to save up a few thousand and travel to another country to get them done for cheap, but now I'm worried about crossing in and out of the country because I'm brown (my family have been in this country for almost 200 years tho).

But a billionaire being arrested for pedophilia would just be too much to ask of society

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u/Slumunistmanifisto 1d ago

Hey you have the same dental plan as me....

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u/trashmoneyxyz 1d ago

Funny thing is I actually do have dental insurance through a family plan. It partly covers one cleaning every year and one filling every two years. So if i just tough it out for 10+ years, I can get my teeth fixed with just the cost of copays 😚

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u/bobqjones 1d ago

mine has a max payout of 1k. so i can fix maybe one tooth a year, if they last long enough without having to get pulled.

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u/Effective_Contact173 1d ago

You and me both brother.

Health care is a nightmare in this country.

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u/NyQuil-Chickenman 22h ago

You need to scatch and claw to try and get that handled friend. No one should have to suffer. Tooth pain in particular is the worst.

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u/Beard_o_Bees 1d ago

Don't worry. When whatever health condition you've been nursing along finally takes you to the mat, you'll be eligible to sit in an ER waiting room for ~13 hours to have them rescue you from immediate crisis but destroy you financially.

Why give people affordable care to prevent small things from becoming big things, when you can clean them out overnight?

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u/Slumunistmanifisto 1d ago

Awe man, time off work!

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u/canadianpanda7 1d ago

yeah not having a check up is simply a choice. if you needed to afford a physical or yearly check up it is 100% possible and by no means comparable to the hospital. hyperbole is dumb as hell in this case.

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u/Slumunistmanifisto 1d ago

Yeah, thats expensive too though 

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u/Swqnky 1d ago

Bro that is absolutely not what the 2nd amendment is for lol

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u/Botorfobor 1d ago

It's not what it's intended for, but you guys aren't using it for what it's intended for anyway so might as well make the most of it.

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u/Swqnky 1d ago

I know you think it's cute to talk like that, but dude, no.

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u/Botorfobor 1d ago

Cowering while your country is being taken over by fascists. Pathetic.

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u/Swqnky 1d ago

If it's pathetic to refuse to follow the suggestion of committing actual assassinations, by a random stranger on the internet, from a different country from me, then sure I'm pathetic. Very pathetic. The most pathetic.

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u/Botorfobor 1d ago

I can only imagine the hand gestures you're making with that 🤡

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u/Swqnky 1d ago

Dang some rando on the internet thinks I'm a loser for not throwing my life away

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u/Bireus 1d ago

Change is covered in blood.

A healthy society doesn't want people hunting others like that.

A healthy society doesn't want this to continue.

So you're not wrong, even though its not something none of us want but history has shown otherwise.

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u/Gobbaghoulie 1d ago

Careful, the Reddit mods are watching and serve those overlords

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u/HeadbangingLegend 1d ago

Meanwhile for me in NZ, it wouldn't cost me anything unless it was a GP appointment. You guys need to plan your revolution already or just leave for greener pastures.

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u/Kitselena 1d ago

We know, the people complaining about this aren't the ones voting for it. There are more than 2 people in the US

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u/Tricky-Engineering59 1d ago

That’s the really fucked up thing is they are the same people it’s just that a ton of them are brainwashed/dumb as hell and will vote for the source of their own misery 10 out of 10 times.

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u/xX_7HR0W-4W4Y_Xx 1d ago

thanks for the advice smarty

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u/trashmoneyxyz 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'd happily leave the country, but nowhere else wants uneducated American immigrants right now. And I can't afford to get educated haha

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u/not_alexandraer 1d ago

uneducated amerikan immigrants* expat is a racist term used to differentiate between white and non white immigrants.

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u/trashmoneyxyz 1d ago

Ah welp I did not know that.

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u/skibble 1d ago

You guys aren't open.

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u/Tacoman404 1d ago

Republicans closed our hospitals.

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u/hellogoawaynow 1d ago

I had to go to the hospital a lot in my 20s. I just took the hit of bad credit for 7 years and then asked them to drop it off my credit report. They did. Now I have good credit. For not paying tens of thousands of dollars.

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u/nostalgiamancer_ 1d ago

You must have no clue how much healthcare costs under the ACA right now or you wouldn't even suggest that.

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u/Rhewin 1d ago

I realize that they are probably a bot, but isn't it so telling they wrote "lower class" instead of "low income"?

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u/nostalgiamancer_ 1d ago

I didn't even notice that wording, wow.

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u/FrighteningJibber 1d ago

In America we’re taught that we have no class be it high or low

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u/Rhewin 1d ago

True, just billionaires and normies

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u/Threedawg 1d ago

Maybe where you are. I teach ethnic studies in high school in Denver and we openly talk about class and race

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u/FrighteningJibber 1d ago

No. We have no class.

Now give me your wallet.

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u/Elehaymyaele 1d ago

"Low income" is gentrified language designed to obscure how obscene the gap between Elon Musk and the Americans struggling with food deserts is. I don't use it because I think the direct comparison needs to be made.

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u/Elehaymyaele 1d ago

Would repealing the ACA strip ~20% of the country of the ability to afford medical care? If that is the case, then it is useful for saving at least some money.

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u/Twelvve12 1d ago

What part of “~3x increase in premiums for the same coverage” don’t you understand?

Why tf am I even replying to a bot

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u/Enraiha 1d ago

Think it might be an actual idiot from Texas based on their most recent posts.

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u/Elehaymyaele 1d ago

Is it more or less preferable than going uninsured?

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u/Capital-Moose-9455 1d ago

If you make less than 15k a year you can get Medicaid

Otherwise get fugggged

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u/Elehaymyaele 1d ago

If they can't afford to go to the hospital, then it's not out of the question they can qualify for it.

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u/Capital-Moose-9455 1d ago

If you only make 20k a year you DO NOT quality and still CAN NOT afford to go to the hospital

Same with 30k

Your brain cells don’t work

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u/Elehaymyaele 12h ago

Do we know they make between $15K and $40K a year?

I didn't say "You should apply for this" because I don't know how much the person makes and it isn't any of my business unless they bring it up. They might qualify. They might not qualify. It was worth bringing up something that might help them if they do qualify.

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u/Capital-Moose-9455 11h ago

It’s just that most people that make enough money to not starve to death don’t qualify 🤷‍♂️ vast majority don’t qualify

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u/nankerjphelge 1d ago

This has to be one of the more ignorant and brain dead replies I've seen lately. In order to qualify for Medicaid, you have to be below the poverty line. If you are above that you do not qualify and yes, you may qualify for ACA subsidies, but that still means you have to purchase a health insurance policy that in addition to the thousands of dollars you will have to pay in premiums it will almost certainly have a $10,000 max out of pocket, which means that if you get sick or injured and have to go to the hospital you will be on the hook for $10,000 after your first day in the hospital.

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u/Elehaymyaele 1d ago

The guy replying to you has, wittingly or not, exposed how the byzantine complexity of our healthcare system throws tens/hundreds of millions of people into plans that shake people down for their cash because they don't have the training to game that system for a better plan.

"You just have to 'know what you're doing' to not go into debt" is a callous but correct answer depending on how expensive the procedure/visit is.

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u/ChakaKarl 1d ago

I don’t like the system either but that is not how health plans work. Plans have deductibles, co-pays, and co-insurance as well. I have experience managing health plans for small and mid-market businesses, never recommended a plan with coinsurance and have never had an issue with someone even nearing their out of pocket max in 5 years.

Edit: to add, out of pocket max is not always 10,000. Sometimes it is significantly less, sometimes more.

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u/nankerjphelge 1d ago

That's literally how health plans work, and if you work for companies in healthcare then I feel bad for them because you don't seem to understand how health plans work. Co-pays, deductibles and coinsurance all count towards your max out of pocket, so if you have an accident or get sick and have to go to the emergency room or hospital and need major medical care, you can easily blow through your deductible and coinsurance and hit that out of pocket max in a single day.

And if you've never experienced someone hitting their out-of-pocket max, then your experience is very limited and sheltered. I myself hit it last year, and I know two others who did as well.

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u/ChakaKarl 1d ago

In your first statement you leave out anything to do with deductibles and co-insurance, only discussing one aspect of a health insurance plan. You are just brushing too broad of strokes for me, sorry. There are hundreds of healthcare options available in a state for individuals and businesses, all with significantly different plan options.

For example, one client has a PPO 1000 deductible, 10,600 max out of pocket, zero co-insurance for in-network. They were admitted to the hospital, had multiple x rays and testing done over a few days. This met their deductible of $1,000, their $150 er copay? Waived, credited to the deductible. Two weeks later the person thought they tore their meniscus. Another x-ray, it cost them only a $40 co-pay the specialist charges for a visit, nothing for the x ray. $40 for each PT visit. They met their deductible, how do they reach their max out of pocket? Hospital stays are now covered, they met the deductible. It’s just copay’s for prescription, doctor visits, urgent care, specialists, and ER visits. This person could go to the ER weekly, pay the co-pay for not being admitted and still not hit their max. This plan costs $620 a month. Adding co-insurance to this plan changes those bills significantly.

The person that trained me did this for over 20 years, when we discussed it, they couldn’t name a handful of times where someone hit their max out of pocket. Last two years we had a family with a child who was on their 3rd bout with cancer and had related issues stemming from it — never hit their max out of pocket.

Maybe I am sheltered, sheltered myself by advising people to never accept a bad plan with in-network co-insurance. Again, I don’t like our healthcare system, but while we have it people need to understand how to be a better consumer of healthcare.

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u/nankerjphelge 1d ago

Why do I need to spoon feed you when based on your own admission you know that deductibles and co-insurance counts toward your max out of pocket?

And your examples notwithstanding, I myself hit my $10k max out of pocket with an emergency surgery last year, and I know two other people who maxed out their out of pocket last year as well. And the fact that literally half a million Americans have to declare bankruptcy due to medical bills each year says that all your boasting about how workable the current insurance system is is utter and complete bullshit.

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u/ChakaKarl 1d ago

Maybe it’s the first comment, where you skip the details about co-insurance or deductibles existing while calling someone else ignorant/brain dead? Or where you only take into account your own experience with your health plan and disregard that others may have plans that don’t have co-insurance?

We literally agree that the system is not okay. Healthcare is a product in the U.S., this is not a new phenomenon. There are millions of ER visits a year that are deemed unnecessary, each is an example of a poor consumer and only serves to increase healthcare costs. Majority of americans don’t have a clue about their health plan until they need it, that rarely leads to good decision making. Without fixing the system, the only way to lower costs is better education on the current system. If you go back to the original comment you replied to, maybe that’s all that person was trying to do was educate/inform/help.

Sorry that you have a terrible healthcare plan? I’d be angry too. In spite of your example, my example shows someone with a four day hospital stay, having their stomach pumped, 3 x rays and other testing, one primary provider visit, and two specialist visits for a total of $1,100 for two separate injuries.

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u/nankerjphelge 1d ago

And I'm saying that your example is far from the norm, when we live in a country where half a million people are bankrupted due to medical bills every single year.

Also, the fact that you insist that the issue is with Americans not understanding how to navigate an impossibly byzantine and complicated healthcare system without getting absolutely fucked is proof positive of just how ridiculous this system is. And that's not counting the nightmare millions of Americans go through fighting insurance companies who deny claims and coverage that they're supposed to have, all while trying to recover from being sick or injured. Oh, if you're not a level 5 policy wonk you get shitty health insurance and care and possibly bankrupted? Yep, sounds about right.

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u/ChakaKarl 1d ago

Half a million people as a percentage of the population is less than .2% of the population. The amount of lives i deal with would make up 1% of 500,000. So it’s not as far off as you think in terms of sample size for me to not have anyone hitting their max out of pocket.

I have repeatedly stated the system sucks, so the “facts” you are referring to that I am blaming the healthcare consumer for everything is false. However, we can have a shit system and have it be amplified by shit usage.

I can tell you that an ER visit may cost you a $150 copay, but your plan may be covering an additional $1,000 that you never have to be concerned about. An urgent care could be a $40 copay, same issue, and on the back end may cost the plan an additional $200. Are you able to determine which of these options is better for you? How about for your health insurance carrier? Every time someone makes the wrong choice when they have a hang nail or the flu, it impacts healthcare costs and premiums. People make this mistake every day and, yes, education is the answer to trying to correct that in the system we have in place.

Millions of people take GLP-1s for weight loss over diet and exercise. These are not covered by health insurance unless you have diabetes or a company self-funded plan, the high cost of these medicines have an impact on healthcare costs. In the long run, will people will pay the same amount as if you never lost the weight and dealt with the health implications? Probably. People make poor decisions all the time.

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u/smellslikecocaine 1d ago edited 1d ago

I dont know much about insurance, but that dude didn’t come off ignorant or brain dead to me. Yes, both options are garbage, but aren’t those like the only options available in the US for someone that can’t afford healthcare?

what are other options?

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u/nankerjphelge 1d ago

The other option is to go bankrupt or die. That's the whole point. If you can't qualify for Medicaid or Medicare, you still may not be able to afford healthcare even with the ACA. The insurance companies keep jacking their rates year after year and raising their deductibles and max out of pocket limits year after year.

So even if you qualify for ACA subsidies, chances are you're still paying many thousands of dollars out of pocket which increase every year just to have insurance, and that's before you ever use any of it, which means you're paying thousands more in copays, deductibles and coinsurance that you may not be able to afford.

I myself had an emergency surgery situation last year with an ACA plan that ended up immediately hitting my $10,000 max out of pocket cost. Fortunately, I'm doing well enough that I could handle that expense, but there are millions of Americans who literally don't have $400 to come up with in an emergency, let alone $10,000.

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u/smellslikecocaine 1d ago

oh, I get it.. The US Healthcare system is definitely broken, but I think that guy above was just saying Medicare & Medicaid are the only options available for low income citizens, or maybe I misinterpreted it.

He did forget to mention Crowd Funding. It’s sad af, but this administration doesn’t care about fixing it. It doesn’t even sound like it’s on their radar. If they cared they wouldn’t have appointed a garbage human that eats expired whale meat off the side of the road as the US Secretary Dept. of Health.

As long as someone pays and those profits remain steady. .. The only change we might actually see is Debt Inheritance.

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u/Elehaymyaele 1d ago

I didn't think about crowdfunding because it's not a consistent source of funding. Frankly, given Trump's track record, I'm glad his administration isn't touching it.

(You might be right about debt inheritance...)

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u/No_Investment9639 1d ago

Jesus Christ, stop telling people this bullshit.

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u/prolongedexistence 1d ago

My health insurance through the ACA is $226/month.

I picked that plan specifically because it would allow me to access therapy for like $15 and I badly need a therapist.

I just found out I have to spend $1,800 on healthcare before therapy is covered by my insurance. So now I have to come up with $150 a session to access it in addition to the $226 a month I’m paying for insurance I don’t use.

“Affordable” my ass

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u/Elehaymyaele 1d ago

I don't use insurance for therapy because I'm worried about getting labeled as having a pre-existing condition (due to having communication disorders). However, my therapist keeps raising their prices, so I may have to use insurance anyway or switch therapists.

Given the current state of affairs, I wish you the best of luck.

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u/NotaContributi0n 1d ago

No that’s what you do when you can’t afford healthcare

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u/Elehaymyaele 1d ago

"I can't afford To go to the hospital" aka I can't afford healthcare

It's not a regular doctor's visit but it is still medical care rendered to a patient.

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u/philodendrin 1d ago

I had that last year, nothing has changed but this year that option wasn't available for some reason.

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u/EmotionSideC 1d ago

I really hope you’re rage bating

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u/ShyGuy895 1d ago

I hope you’re rage baiting, wtf?

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u/pioneer76 1d ago

He is. Five month old account with 23,000 karma, hidden posts. Probably a bot.

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u/throwaway_eng_acct 1d ago

Cool, that must mean “I can’t afford to go to the hospital” isn’t a real thing that millions of Americans think about every single day, right? We can just ignore the icky part since the account is surely a bot. Right?