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News Disney Parks Chief Josh D'Amaro Says Pricing Model Aims to Keep Vacations Affordable for Families
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Tony the Tigger
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86% of employees are not 86% of the population.
Josh is out today. Apparently he over-indulged in 1947 Dom Perignon yesterday and the hangover and headache is preventing him from thinking about affordability today. He is acutely aware about the affordability of Alka Seltzer, though. He was rather shocked at how expensive it has become.
More affordability thoughts tomorrow. We hope.
John park hopper
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This thread has gotten way off
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JMcMahonEsq
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so? Her statement was "Sure do. Born and bred Wisconsinite of almost 51 years, thankyouverymuch. And no, not "most" employers have insurance programs." Which means the majority of employers do offer health insurance.
As to percentages of the population:
Most recent studies (take your pick, IRS, HHS, CDC, Mayo, NEJM) peg the number of Americans without insurance as being somewhere in the range of 25-27Million. That is roughly 8-9% of the American population. So while its still a personal tragedy for those people who do not have coverage, that still means 91-92% of the population DOES have medical insurance,
Well it's late in the afternoon on June 10, 2025 and Josh eventually got around to thinking about affordability today.
Josh is really hot, but not because of the extra tight pants or 90+degree Florida weather with 100% humidity.
He's hot because the poors are asking for cups of free ice water and Josh is wondering why they can't afford imported Polar iceberg water from the antarctic. The same type he gets flown in on a daily basis at almost $200 per liter. ( Or $200 per .264 gallon aka freedom units)
Josh is going to hydrate and will be back tomorrow for more hot and wet fun !
Captain Barbossa
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Ew, TMI
networkpro
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- In the Parks
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59.7% as of May are employed.
Tony the Tigger
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And it sucks. We have an expensive Blue Cross PPO through my spouse’s employer. I had a CT scan today, had to jump through hoops to get it covered - and they paid $4 out of a $300 bill. To quote Janet Jackson: “Thank you for the ride - nowhere.”
They are “taking back” thousands of dollars from my doctor for a surgery last year because…reasons, and the doctor is billing me. I am working to have that reversed.
Many doctors who are not specialists are morons who google things while you talk to them.
What does this have to do with Disney again?
Thank you.
dmc493
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It's an opinion piece and there's no groundbreaking stance on the affordability issue, but regardless it still feels notable being published in NYT. Enough that I got a push notification my phone about the article. Apologies - I don't know how to un-paywall articles, if someone else does though that'd be awesome
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
All these articles have the same gist…a dose of reality that the oligarchy will not acknowledge
DisneyHead123
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Thanks for the link!
DisneyHead123
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I have mixed feelings on articles like this. On the one hand, Disney is a very prominent symbol of American life, and I understand wanting to talk about how that’s changing with a symbol of Americana as the backdrop. On the other, Disney is kind of a weird, uncommon monopoly type situation that doesn’t necessarily reflect the problems of the nation as a whole in many ways. Lowering prices significantly at Disney would either result in significant overcrowding or them simply selling out, it’s not like low prices would result in a happy American dream where suddenly 300 million people plus international travelers could visit the parks annually.
I kind of wonder about more significant lines between income levels. Home ownership is a big one. The ability to have enough left over to invest and then profit from the market is a big one. Inflation is a big one (I was recently about to cheerily throw a bag of Reeses Halloween pumpkins in my cart and thought I was having some kind of weird fever dream when I saw the price.) I even wonder about things like the vacation home market - what happens to towns when people come in and buy ten million dollar homes they’ll rarely use? Can local restaurants and stores stay in business when a town becomes handfuls of intermittent visitors?
I dunno, I was more gung ho on this topic when the price increases paired with ridiculous cuts almost seemed like management straight up laughing at their customer base. It seems they’ve turned that around a bit though. Do I like the price increases? Of course not, but even if we’re eventually priced out, it seems more like normal supply and demand now. Just my take, of course.
I kind of wonder about more significant lines between income levels. Home ownership is a big one. The ability to have enough left over to invest and then profit from the market is a big one. Inflation is a big one (I was recently about to cheerily throw a bag of Reeses Halloween pumpkins in my cart and thought I was having some kind of weird fever dream when I saw the price.) I even wonder about things like the vacation home market - what happens to towns when people come in and buy ten million dollar homes they’ll rarely use? Can local restaurants and stores stay in business when a town becomes handfuls of intermittent visitors?
I dunno, I was more gung ho on this topic when the price increases paired with ridiculous cuts almost seemed like management straight up laughing at their customer base. It seems they’ve turned that around a bit though. Do I like the price increases? Of course not, but even if we’re eventually priced out, it seems more like normal supply and demand now. Just my take, of course.
Sirwalterraleigh
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Maintaining prices wouldn’t cause overcrowding…that’s corporate bolstered myth
They absolutely are still “cutting” with increases…it’s in every quarterly.
The issue is that those are parks that still have a “luxury ceiling”…there’s no way to make them elite tastes. And as they continue this course…they have taken away any safety net - which is the middle class - if they run into trouble. And the reasoning is simple: their management is detached from the name. They’ll just quit. What happened the last time they were about to lose big?
DisneyHead123
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There is no “thoughtful emoji” response so I just quoted.
I dunno. I think people are hard on Disney, but I was surprised to see how ginormous the profit margin for the parks is. Also not sure about pricing and crowds - one point where we can probably agree is that capacity should have become a priority much sooner than it did.