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null_pointer posted:Qualifications: 10+ years working for one of the largest healthcare companies in America. As me anything. whats the magic cheat code to get single-payer healthcare in the USA is it  ? I bet its
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:whats the magic cheat code to get single-payer healthcare in the USA "there is no cow level"
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Sep 18, 2018 06:54
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Tyler Durden style except on the insurance companies instead of credit companies. Though might as well do both while you're at it.
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Sep 18, 2018 06:56
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Thanks Ants posted:That's not quite true - you'd have paid an entire £8.80 for any prescription meds you needed after the treatment. Hey, Scotland has free prescriptions.
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Sep 18, 2018 07:02
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Thanks Ants posted:That's not quite true - you'd have paid an entire £8.80 for any prescription meds you needed after the treatment. Maybe in the crap part of the UK
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Sep 18, 2018 10:25
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For some reason I have an open ticket sitting on me from last night that was resolved but not closed, and has a -2 hour resolve time. Why the gently caress does it feel like I'm the only person with more than half a brain here, and why the gently caress do I always have to clean up other people's stupid mistakes. For the record, the system checks for valid times and will stop you if you put something stupid in. I have no idea how they brute forced an invalid time in, it shouldn't even be possible. However they did it, it would've been easier to just do it correctly.
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Sep 18, 2018 12:22
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Thanatosian posted:Don't forget that the costs are determined through backroom deals between hospital networks and insurance companies, and that if you want to know how much something costs they won't tell you because it's literally a trade secret. This is starting to change. There are some providers where you can log in online and get a real-time quote for services, including what you're insurance will cover. There are operations in the works to allow this in 'guest mode' so people can actually shop around, comparing prices and insurance coverage at different providers until they find the best deal. The willingness for providers and large hospital systems to buy in and set up this service is pitifully low, at best, but might eventually one day (years from now) get a tiny bit better.
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Sep 18, 2018 13:03
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I don't know if my expectation are too high or too low here. My helpdesk dude is basically either trolling me, or trolling users, probably both. There was an issue with some software we use and I was working in another city so I couldn't look at it as I didn't have remote access to this remote system (secure bla bla) So somehow, when the issue was raised with helpdesk dude, who is pretty new and he didn't know how to deal with it - instead of saying "oh I'll go check with angry armadillo, or the vendor support guys" he basically told the user he didn't know what to do. At this point, the user then got upset that their issue apparently wasn't going to be resolved which helpdesk dude took as a personal attack. There was then an issue today where helpdesk dude told someone they couldn't have something as we are cutting an old system over to the new system and the old system isn't available anymore. When I said to him those people need access to old system, so don't tell them they can't, he changed his tune to "I didn't say couldn't - I said I didn't know" This is why I said trolling - I think he is saying poo poo like that to get a reaction out of the user - when in reality, I said do the cut over in a specific way so the users can get old and new without issues. so I think we are going to have some kind of chat about how presenting yourself as competent and not trying to irritate your colleagues by suggesting their issues cant be resolved is somewhat more important than you getting reactions out of people because you are a bit mental. I need some time to figure out how I approach this professionally haha.
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Sep 18, 2018 13:43
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:whats the magic cheat code to get single-payer healthcare in the USA You are correct. Only after all insurance company executives, boards, and lobbyists have been lined up against the wall will single-payer healthcare in the US be possible.
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Sep 18, 2018 16:23
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sfwarlock posted:He is absolutely going to get covered for it, but at the same time there were several dumb things that were done here. Mind you, we can't quite point to the employee handbook and say "You failed to follow this line." (although we are looking over the OSHA rules on confined-space work (which I don't think apply, but IANAL)), partially because we don't have much of a handbook; but at the same time, he should have propped the door, he should have let me or someone here know where he was going, he's a pretty big dude and that stepstool may only have been rated for 200 lbs... there was not a lot of good judgment or foresight demonstrated here. 1. It it the norm for employees entering a secure private area to go in multiples? IE, is this done every time? 2. He used a stool to get at something. Do you have a properly rated ladder or other equipment readily available to do whatever work he needed to be off the floor to reach? Was using whatever was available to him safe or unsafe the norm? 3. If he was to tell you he was going to that site change any of the above? The employer defines what is suppose to be normal operating procedures for this stuff. If you don't make safe working habits clearly required and reasonably convenient you are going to have accidents like this.
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Sep 18, 2018 16:31
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Might be kinda late, but it loving baffles me that anyone is allowed to go anywhere alone who isn't a director (directors regularly say gently caress off to all policies). Where I previously worked, if i'm going into the server room to change the backup tapes over, I was supposed to take an apprentice with me. What actually happened was I showed him the first couple of times, then after that he'd just wait by the door drinking his tea or whatever while I did the swap. Even where i'm at now, which is a much smaller company, the policy is "Are you with someone? Why the gently caress not? Get someone to go with you, even sales staff if you have nobody else".
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dogstile posted:Might be kinda late, but it loving baffles me that anyone is allowed to go anywhere alone who isn't a director (directors regularly say gently caress off to all policies). Is this the new IT norm? Aside from my current job where I sit at a desk I am rarely alone aside from some early morning software deployments. When I did msp work, being alone in a server room, crawling up a ladder into the drop ceiling to swap hidden switches or going onto a flat roof to reset a point to point antenna was the norm. A lot of the time I was at the client site alone after hours and that was what was needed. Hell I had to go into clients site alone for on call emergencies when flood sensors tripped in a server room ( it was always condensation on the AC.) If I was with coworkers it was in the msp office or during a major infrastructure upgrade.
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Sep 18, 2018 17:17
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A ticket came in... ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: demotion from computer janitor to normal janitor I've only got 3 more days in this job, and the helldesk slackeneth not. Come Monday I start out doing actual infrastructure engineering. C'moooon, pod MJP fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Sep 18, 2018 |
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Sep 18, 2018 18:36
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blackswordca posted:Is this the new IT norm? Aside from my current job where I sit at a desk I am rarely alone aside from some early morning software deployments. When I did msp work, being alone in a server room, crawling up a ladder into the drop ceiling to swap hidden switches or going onto a flat roof to reset a point to point antenna was the norm. A lot of the time I was at the client site alone after hours and that was what was needed. Hell I had to go into clients site alone for on call emergencies when flood sensors tripped in a server room ( it was always condensation on the AC.) If I was with coworkers it was in the msp office or during a major infrastructure upgrade. Hurt yourself once and it'll be the norm.
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Sep 18, 2018 18:52
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MJP posted:A ticket came in... Probably best to take the phone number out so nobody calls to ask if her fridge is running.
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Sep 18, 2018 19:02
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MJP posted:A ticket came in... Well... Part of why. Literally every service account across all four sites here have the same logins and passwords for all systems... 
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Sep 18, 2018 19:17
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The HSA talk made me try to figure out how to sign in to mine. There was almost 80 dollars in it! And then I looked and saw I was being charged a $3.50 monthly maintenance fee  I don't use the insurance here anymore since my wife's is much better, so I forgot that I even had money in the HSA. I filed a claim for reimbursement for the rest of it, I've definitely spent $80 in medical expenses this year.
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Fuckin’ healthcare.
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sfwarlock posted:He is absolutely going to get covered for it, but at the same time there were several dumb things that were done here. Mind you, we can't quite point to the employee handbook and say "You failed to follow this line." (although we are looking over the OSHA rules on confined-space work (which I don't think apply, but IANAL)), partially because we don't have much of a handbook; but at the same time, he should have propped the door, he should have let me or someone here know where he was going, he's a pretty big dude and that stepstool may only have been rated for 200 lbs... there was not a lot of good judgment or foresight demonstrated here. I have never ever heard of a security room being propped open during maintenance, not to mention that this isn't feasible for air conditioned and fire protected areas. Hell, most security rooms have door-open alarms. This is simply victim blaming, the org should have a process for registering a lone worker and checking up on them, and tbh there shouldn't be any room not accessible to someone on staff at a remote site during office hours. Sure, dude should have told someone where he was going, but blaming him for lacking emergency planning is just terrible.
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SEKCobra posted:but blaming him for lacking emergency planning is just terrible. Terribly cost efficient!
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SEKCobra posted:I have never ever heard of a security room being propped open during maintenance, not to mention that this isn't feasible for air conditioned and fire protected areas. Hell, most security rooms have door-open alarms. This is simply victim blaming, the org should have a process for registering a lone worker and checking up on them, and tbh there shouldn't be any room not accessible to someone on staff at a remote site during office hours. The technical term where I live in this type of case is "Failure to provide a safe system of work". It is a liability on the person in control of the organisation as well as the company.
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myron cope posted:I don't use the insurance here anymore since my wife's is much better, so I forgot that I even had money in the HSA. I filed a claim for reimbursement for the rest of it, I've definitely spent $80 in medical expenses this year. At my last job, if your spouse could get employee provided health care from their job, they couldn't be part of the company plan. So even if their health care plan was crap, they were stuck with it. If they didn't have employee provided health care, you had to provide a signed affidavit stating this to get on the plan with your spouse. I no longer work there.
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Wiggly posted:At my last job, if your spouse could get employee provided health care from their job, they couldn't be part of the company plan. So even if their health care plan was crap, they were stuck with it. I remember that penny pinching poo poo. Back in the mid 2000's. When healthcare costs started to rocket up. They went around and checked with the employers of spouses and booted people.
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The large-retail-chain-headquartered-in-milwaukee (the one that didn’t just go tits-up) makes Mrs. Schadenboner pay a fee for my company offering (awful small/medium-business) insurance but I hadn’t heard of places doing a straight ban. hosed up. 
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Bob Morales posted:I remember that penny pinching poo poo. Back in the mid 2000's. When healthcare costs started to rocket up. They went around and checked with the employers of spouses and booted people.
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Sep 19, 2018 15:26
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I loving hate capitalism.
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iospace posted:I loving hate capitalism.
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Two of the worst local offenders of the crash/austerity economy are based in my datacenter and while I'd never work again I'd be a folk hero if I broke their poo poo.
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I am part of a giant mix of hospitals, so the ticket system we have has teams and tickets for every place bouncing around it. I glanced at the overall high priority tickets this morning. Priority 2 Ticket: Cafeteria Kiosks do not display breakfast menu. Breakfast is serious business. A reboot of the kiosks resolved issue. I wish my office had cafeteria kiosks. I also wish I could get some of my open issues bumped to priority 2 to get them resolved. None of these back end teams want to fix their stuff unless its priority 2. This tablet that we only install air watch agent on and authenticate it to the air watch server then downloads the incorrect versions of software and people keep asking us why the tablets have the wrong version and to factory reset it again. Fix your settings fools.
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Aragaith posted:I am part of a giant mix of hospitals, so the ticket system we have has teams and tickets for every place bouncing around it. I glanced at the overall high priority tickets this morning. The Cafeteria gets looked after because then they will look after the IT guys come breakfast/lunch/dinner  . Really whichever team handles should raise it to Priority 1.
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Spear phishing attempt; names changed This is the third email from the scammer and still no alarm bells trigger for Billy. Fortunately he had to ask how to raise a PO and the person he asked was like uh... quote:From: John Smith <lwef234j@inbox.lv> Why bother impersonating domains when users are so much dumber than mail filters?
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bitterandtwisted posted:Spear phishing attempt; names changed So the real person doesn’t get the reply email
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Our acquisition randomly subsitutes 0 and O in their system names and they have no standard that would dictate when you expect to see a number or a letter. I'm going to power bomb whoever made up their "convention".
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Arquinsiel posted:Two of the worst local offenders of the crash/austerity economy are based in my datacenter and while I'd never work again  only if you get caught...
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:
Exactly. If the fire also happened to destroy the security tapes.....
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Renegret posted:Our acquisition randomly subsitutes 0 and O in their system names and they have no standard that would dictate when you expect to see a number or a letter. This makes me want to rename everything in combinations of O, 0, I, and l. 0Il0lO0lOOIIO0 can be our file server, but don't get it mixed up with 0ll0lO0lOOII00, the DNS server.
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The Human Cow posted:This makes me want to rename everything in combinations of O, 0, I, and l. 0Il0lO0lOOIIO0 can be our file server, but don't get it mixed up with 0ll0lO0lOOII00, the DNS server. Thanks, I hate it.
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Arquinsiel posted:Two of the worst local offenders of the crash/austerity economy are based in my datacenter and while I'd never work again I'd be a folk hero if I broke their poo poo. Start a GoFundMe. I'll kick in on your future living expenses.
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The Human Cow posted:This makes me want to rename everything in combinations of O, 0, I, and l. 0Il0lO0lOOIIO0 can be our file server, but don't get it mixed up with 0ll0lO0lOOII00, the DNS server. Be sure to mix in | and ○
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