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post hole digger posted:america has had a significant and prolonged issue with people, especially in low income minority communities, not getting vaccinated because they believe it will cost a lot of money, like all other health care here does. Free Covid Shot* *Due to a federal program Free Flu Shot* *With most insurance plans The latter means "not free" and has been there for decades now. No loving poo poo people don't believe the first one.
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Kazinsal posted:yeah, you can't fix smug conservatives. sucks but eh conservative? really? if someone throws poo poo at me but it’s deserved, like most of the stuff in this thread, that’s one one, but .. conservative? now that really is unwarranted
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Nov 16, 2021 05:36
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I don’t even have a lawn
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Oh my god shut the gently caress up
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hi what's up itt
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Sniep posted:hi what's up itt i think jonnys posting kpop again, i cant remember which thread is which
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qirex posted:I spent several months trying to do design writing that poo poo is a totally separate skill, and I’m someone who’s pretty good at documentation it’s pure rear end companies don’t want to hire for that kind of writing. ive wasted so much time discussing/arguing in circles about the cta of buttons and informational text. and then there’s complaints of design being too slow. no poo poo? we are all master of noneing several skills at once.
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ShadowHawk posted:Literal Signs at the grocery store here: i literally got turned away from the first place i tried to get a flu shot because my insurance wouldn't cover me there thanks for making me spend more time going to a second place instead of just getting a shot in the grocery store while i was shopping
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every time i go i just give them my insurance card, but they don’t like that because apparently i have a separate prescription card that they want instead (which i don’t keep with me since i don’t have prescriptions). as long as i’m complaining about insurance, it bothers me that my work’s plan has a single option, a married option that costs a bit less than double the single option, and then it jumps to a “family plan” that is 3.5 times as much. so it sucks for parents with one child which is bullshit imo.
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the doctor billing i see living in nyc is insane. i'm on a HDHP with a mental health buy-up, but my work provides a HRA to cover the deductible so i see all the bills. my psych charges $400/$500 a call. thankfully it's a $20 co-pay. if it wasn't i'd be such a non-functioning sad sack cause lol at paying that OOP.
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Nov 16, 2021 16:08
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i haven't gone to the doctor in awhile due to luck but also having gotten hosed the last 2 times i went, and i inherently do not trust doctors and insurance companies not to gently caress me over financially i completely understand people who did not get vaccinated because they thought the same thing would happen to them (99% in my zip code baby) as illogical as that is
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my favorite was some years ago when i was getting allergy shots and changed jobs. the doctor's office billed the insurance a $55 rack rate per shot. old job insurance paid the doctor $13 and i had no copay; the doctor just wrote off the other $42. new job insurance paid the doctor $0 and then i had a $25 copay, so now the doctor gets $25 all out of my pocket for doing nothing different. i asked if i could just pay $13 cash on the spot since they were gladly taking that much before, and it would save them the hassle of dealing with insurance. but as you would expect the answer was no. Endless Mike posted:i literally got turned away from the first place i tried to get a flu shot because my insurance wouldn't cover me there yeah i went to CVS last month to get mine, made an appointment, blocked off time on my work calendar. when i got there the pharmacist tells me my insurance company and CVS got into a stalemate and the flu shot wouldn't be covered. was not going to pay $40 for it out of pocket out of principle pointed out that my insurance card has the literal CVS logo on the front of it so you'd think it wouldn't be a problem. turns out that's just because they're the pharmacy benefit provider and the flu shot would be billed through medical even though you went to a CVS to get it
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Eeyo posted:every time i go i just give them my insurance card, but they don’t like that because apparently i have a separate prescription card that they want instead (which i don’t keep with me since i don’t have prescriptions). also i'm supposed to pay $40 for specialists, and in three or four visits to an ortho, i haven't paid a cent. the EoBs have shown they're just denying all charges or something i don't quite understand, so i'm looking forward to dealing with that starting in a few months
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Endless Mike posted:i literally got turned away from the first place i tried to get a flu shot because my insurance wouldn't cover me there most efficient system in the world
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kitten smoothie posted:pointed out that my insurance card has the literal CVS logo on the front of it so you'd think it wouldn't be a problem. turns out that's just because they're the pharmacy benefit provider and the flu shot would be billed through medical even though you went to a CVS to get it 
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the act of administering the shot is a medical procedure and thus billed separately. cvs knows they can get that fee so they arent just gonna do it for free. fee for service is bad
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capitalism is bad
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Shaggar posted:the act of administering the shot is a medical procedure and thus billed separately. cvs knows they can get that fee so they arent just gonna do it for free.
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mystes posted:Capitation is one option but maybe there's another option for insurance companies we could call, I don't know, un-capitation, say hmmmm
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the problems of fee for service dont go away if insurance goes away
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Achmed Jones posted:he's done it several times across several threads, and he keeps returning to the same poo poo even after everything has been explicitly spelled out. I don’t follow any forum threads closely enough to have concrete opinions about specific posters these days, but being smart is by no means a guarantee that a person can’t do massively frustrating bullshit. specifically I’m thinking of weird/covert emotional processing and bad interpersonal boundaries. one really cool thing is that it’s possible to combine some amount of bad faith and emotional / interpersonal problems for a genuine poo poo sandwich arguably bad faith is a semi-covert game of emotional and/or political rewards prisoner of waffles fucked around with this message at 03:39 on Nov 17, 2021 |
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lol so a couple weeks ago we were presented with the return to office plan, and our group was going on Mondays, whenever we resumed the commuting thing. got email now saying it's Wednesdays and whatever
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I have to go back to the office Wednesdays and Thursdays starting today. all my afternoon is going to be spent on Teams meetings and would be way better done at home. very mad
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mystes posted:Capitation is one option but maybe there's another option for insurance companies we could call, I don't know, un-capitation, say
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i got the flu shot for free at work because they figured out that providing it for free pays for itself by lower sick days
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i got it yesterday and the side effects are rough this year. anyway i guess it's free in canada this year but we've gotten it for free as parents of a kid under uhhhh six i think is the cutoff
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ultimately i took my kid to a pediatrician appointment a few weeks ago and in the doctor office building's lobby they had nurses giving free flu shots to anyone who showed up, no insurance card required for a minute i got to experience what having a functioning health system must feel like
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spankmeister posted:i got the flu shot for free at work because they figured out that providing it for free pays for itself by lower sick days i got it at work too, but it was done for free by safeway for some reason and then they handed me a coupon for groceries
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whenever they do those at work you have to fill out a bunch of papers with personal info, so i just go to the walk-up table or drive-through at kaiser
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makes me glad i have kaiser, which is totally monolithic and i dont have to worry about getting shots and drugs elsewhere. oh what's this? an email from kaiser, how timely! quote:What you should know about getting care during a labor strike ... oh. oh.
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Nov 18, 2021 07:22
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kitten emergency posted:there’s a lot of variance between insurers I guess. it's loving insane, also in america they're not allowed to talk to each other about it Midjack posted:is there a yosmas 2021 thread that i missed? you did not. instead, look into donating money/items to striking workers on the picket lines
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graph posted:this thread sure had a couple days eh yeah I skipped it for a few days. I finally get to find out what I did to my leg today and I’m excited to leave my house for the first time in a week 
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graph posted:you did not. instead, look into donating money/items to striking workers on the picket lines good plan. in related news, deere negotiations have ended and surprise we won
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deere jonny
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Midjack posted:is there a yosmas 2021 thread that i missed? i've been lazy about starting it. usually i do it after thanksgiving but thanksgiving is late this year. numbers have been declining each year anyway also 
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Nov 18, 2021 20:56
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surgery on Monday so that’s fun
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Stereotype posted:surgery on Monday so that’s fun best of luck and speedy recovery
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graph posted:it's loving insane, also in america they're not allowed to talk to each other about it been doing that and will keep on but i have love to spare. Fuzzy Mammal posted:i've been lazy about starting it. usually i do it after thanksgiving but thanksgiving is late this year. numbers have been declining each year anyway also fair enough, i had Halloween with as my mental checkpoint. always happy to elf for you! 
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kitten emergency posted:there’s a lot of variance between insurers I guess. we finally got billed for our kid’s birth + NICU stay, we owed nothing. insurance took care of all of it. in return your employer will be told that your utilization went up a lot due to too many people having kids and your premiums will jump 50%
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