Joementum posted:

all the wonks on twitter are mad about tariffs and i'm like "lol, lmao"

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

That isn't how insurance works at all duder

Hospitals employ people whose sole job is to find the point where you'll look at a line item charge, laugh and throw the bill in the trash, and dial it back a notch.

The primary value add of an insurance company is that they negotiate favorable rates for their clients. A hospital might submit a bill for $90 for an aspirin, and the insurance company can say "gently caress off, we negotiated $2.95 and that's what you're getting."

Insurance company profits are capped by law. Any money in excess gets returned to the clients via the end of contract period settlement process.

The fundamental problem is a lack of cost controls imposed on providers. This is a thorny subject because frequently the hospital is the only good employer in many rural areas and their overcharging is all that supports decent jobs.

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Then in the midst of the fun a woman rises and challenges his pro-choice position. "It's a religious issue," Morry says, "not a matter for the federal government." She presses him: you can see she's used to making public speakers either come around to her way of thinking or regret ever opening their mouths. She's picked the wrong guy today. Instead of backing down or wiggling, Morry goes on the attack: "Look ma'am, I think 99 percent of women never want an abortion. They go through a lot of mental anguish. They suffer a lot. I say leave it to them." She tries to speak. Morry interrupts: "I said, leave... it... to... the... WOMEN."

euphronius posted:

why is this so funny

shovelbum posted:

Yeah I can see why it wouldn't work tho I could never marry like someone who couldn't drink booze

shovelbum posted:

Abolish insurance and extract funds from parasitic sectors to fund UHC

sandoz posted:

is spicy town? real????????

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

I write medical claim abjudication and billing software for a living. If you're serious about wanting to correct our hosed up and broken system, you need to start at the root of the problem: provider costs.

tacodaemon posted:

NEW YORK (AP) — The Securities and Exchange Commission late last year dropped its inquiry into a financial company that a month earlier had given White House adviser Jared Kushner’s family real estate firm a $180 million loan.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/sec-dropped-inquiry-financial-firm-gave-kushner-companies-loan

euphronius posted:

doctors should probably not make millions a year

Chris James 2 posted:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/02/us/central-michigan-university-shots-fired/index.html

euphronius posted:

doctors should probably not make millions a year

pushpins posted:

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euphronius posted:

doctors should probably not make millions a year

Al! posted:

america has all of these local chains that seem perfectly normal to locals but if you live on the other side of the country its like "what the gently caress is a sheetz that cant be a real name"

euphronius posted:

committing crimes faster than they can be investigated

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mormonpartyboat posted:

https://twitter.com/justin_fenton/status/969412291845328898
https://twitter.com/justin_fenton/status/969583962107637761

mormonpartyboat posted:

https://twitter.com/justin_fenton/status/969412291845328898
https://twitter.com/justin_fenton/status/969583962107637761

Al! posted:

america has all of these local chains that seem perfectly normal to locals but if you live on the other side of the country its like "what the gently caress is a sheetz that cant be a real name"

mormonpartyboat posted:

https://twitter.com/justin_fenton/status/969412291845328898
https://twitter.com/justin_fenton/status/969583962107637761

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Ramadu posted:

as a poor with no stocks this is also my position

mormonpartyboat posted:

we're just churning out great gangtags here, folks