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John Wick of Dogs posted:And the hospitals are all broke and barely run, so who the gently caress is getting the money US healthcare spending is about 2x per person compared to other developed countries. The biggest category in the difference is administrative costs, at both insurance/payer side and doctor side. Your US hospital has a whole department full of people coding stuff, collating supporting documents, arranging those however various insurance companies want it, then following up on claims that are misfiled and don't get payed. Then each insurance company has a corresponding department of people receiving that and checking things. None of those people are making bank, but there's a lot of them, and their salaries have to come from somewhere. It's a huge amount of work that is largely unnecessary and much simpler in single payer.
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PurpleXVI posted:I have legitimately had nightmares about driving, where I hosed everything up and eventually had to bail on the car and run away, where I did not gently caress up this badly. Ruflux posted:Same, but they're a semi-regular feature. I wouldn't call them nightmares, just annoying and frustrating themes. A common element is reversing but uh oh, the brakes don't do poo poo for some reason and you just keep plowing into things. Sometimes the same thing happens going forwards, other times I'm driving inside a mall because the road just turned into that for some reason. Occasionally I'll blow a red light or drive into a horribly confusing intersection and cause a pileup. I guess it's pretty much a version of the "running late for class/sitting the big test and realizing you didn't study" nightmare but for adults, since they're all centered around a commonplace communal activity where you can immediately be judged and mildly shamed if you gently caress it up
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Foxfire_ posted:A bunch of diffuse administrative office workers, mostly. also they're all terrible at their jobs and gently caress your poo poo up
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hawowanlawow posted:also they're all terrible at their jobs and gently caress your poo poo up Yes. On the insurance side and the hospital/clinic/medical supply company’s side. Unrelated. nomad2020 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUWZtbs3fy4 Bored has a new favorite as of 07:20 on Nov 12, 2023 |
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GTA 6 graphics looking great, the AI could use some work though.
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bad_fmr posted:Thanks. Dont have archives but I'll take your word for the lols contained within. Phenazepam stuff has been reposted and compiled to death online, if you just Google it you’ll find a billion blog posts and YouTube summaries and whatnot Prolly one of the bigger, more notorious things to come out of SA after the early salad days of shockposting
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bad_fmr posted:Thats every modern truck tbh. Forward visibility sucks because of the ridiculously high and long bonnets. Can't understand how it's a thing, it looks like trash compared to older trucks.
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From what I can tell there are controls on the arms to let you "fly" but she just has em set to death spiral.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:https://i.imgur.com/GgYCPFp.mp4 The theming says TMNT but the action says Tailspin
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And the movement says "projectile vomiting"
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lmao what the gently caress was going on here? was the driver just having a complete breakdown or ???
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TACD posted:lmao what the gently caress was going on here? was the driver just having a complete breakdown or ??? looks like pretty normal driver behavior to me
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Bored posted:November 1st was the first day of open enrollment through healthcare.gov. I just got "let go", I guess, by my PCP because it seems I don't come in often enough, even if there's nothing wrong with me and I feel fine. Motherfuckers, I don't go to the doctor unless I have to, in large part because of the costs Bored posted about. Seems like they just go "hmmm, BiggerBoat hasn't been in to see us in over 18 months. Better have him come in so we can bill something." Even though I have out of pocket costs, would likely have to miss work time and have no symptoms of any sort worthy of requiring a doctor visit, the fact that I haven't needed to see a physician in 2 years makes me an undesirable patient. I worked with a guy once who had a heart condition who made it clear to every co-worker that under no circumstances should an ambulance ever be called for him - due to the exorbitant expense - and that we should contact his family or get someone there to drive him. Insane.
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As a soon-to-be doc, you can always let your physician know of your situation, such as the cost (money or time) having you come in less. They'll put in a thing to keep you on the roster - most docs have limited enrollment slots so if nothing is said the office has measures in place to unassign patients who aren't seen in x years to make room for new patients. If you talked to your doc and they said "too bad" you needed a new doc anyway. If you haven't talked to your doc, call or email the office and they'll likely reassign you again, even if they're at capacity.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I guess it's pretty much a version of the "running late for class/sitting the big test and realizing you didn't study" nightmare but for adults, since they're all centered around a commonplace communal activity where you can immediately be judged and mildly shamed if you gently caress it up Actually I've had nightmares about driving cars since I was ten years old. So I figured, "hey, one way to beat this will be to get my driver's license, and then I'll see it's no big deal, and it'll get better." But no, it turned out the terror just passed into the real world and I'm terrified of driving cars there, too. And the nightmares continue.
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PurpleXVI posted:Actually I've had nightmares about driving cars since I was ten years old. So I figured, "hey, one way to beat this will be to get my driver's license, and then I'll see it's no big deal, and it'll get better." But no, it turned out the terror just passed into the real world and I'm terrified of driving cars there, too. And the nightmares continue. Congrats on turning 16! Do anything fun for your birthday, bud?
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I never stopped having the "running late for class/sitting the big test and realizing you didn't study" nightmares, just piled new ones into the rotation
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I once dreamed I was taken in a helicopter to trump's condo at the top of a skyscraper. There was a party going on, kind of relaxed. We had drinks, and enjoyed subdued thoughtful conversation. It turns out he is not a narcissistic baby monster after all. He is just under a lot of pressure, and it was clear he is actually trying really hard to do his best for the world and america, but he's not quite getting there and it's getting to him. I started awake in cold sweat it was weird as gently caress. Turns out I was getting the rona flu or whatever and my fever brain was hallucinating some wild poo poo
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I apologize for any spelling errors, I have the robs and am posting on mobile.
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Your posting has given me the morbs.
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The m'robs.
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(Logs in for a day of shitposting) "It's morbin time." 
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I will say that when I went through cancer treatment last year the insurance company covered untold thousands of dollars in treatment costs. My deductible was 3k which was cheap for what I went through.
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steinrokkan posted:I never stopped having the "running late for class/sitting the big test and realizing you didn't study" nightmares, just piled new ones into the rotation I have this one a couple times a year too. The only car related one I have that's recurring is where I'm driving way too fast and come up on a steep hill or railroad crossing and wind up launching my vehicle airborne then flying like Thelma and Louise. Darth Brooks posted:I will say that when I went through cancer treatment last year the insurance company covered untold thousands of dollars in treatment costs. My deductible was 3k which was cheap for what I went through. That's cool but it should still be zero or much closer to zero at least. Glad your treatment went well though and hope you feel better.
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I think that the outrageous US cost of health insurance is cross subsidising the rest of the world because my corporate health plan here in Europe just let's me get anything for £100 per illness. You want an unnecessary MRI? Go for it because the consultant doesn't give a poo poo about the costs and neither does the insurer. So thanks America, your pain is potentially our gain and that's some real schadenfreude right there.
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Karate Bastard posted:Spelling is hard ok? Oh yeah, was the grink there? Did he sing mrob like the bhanson brothers?
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:https://i.imgur.com/GgYCPFp.mp4 Meatspin
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The audio has been edited into that to make it more interesting - that woman does that on purpose to try and break her previous record number of spins. Looks like a sweet ride though. I just cancelled some hospital treatments last week due to the cost. Had a PVC that lasted 10 minutes which felt like I was winded and being punched in the chest. Doctor thinks it's an anomaly but wanted me to go for a stress test anyway. Got the estimate back last week, and to run on a treadmill covered with electrodes, my insurance was being billed $7800, with me being responsible for $900 of that. Absolutely not. Anomaly it is. Also had a really surprising medical bill a while ago - got a neck and spine x-ray to make sure I didn't have a more serious issue, and the entire diagnosis and process was billed to my insurance at $58. Insurance totally denied it as they didn't find any issues, and the hospital reduced the cost to $32.
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A lot of people in this thread talking like my old buddy who felt good, didn't eat red meat or drink heavily, was only in his early 40s, and didn't think going to the cardiologist was necessary. Anyway we're about a month away from 10 years since he died shoveling snow.
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