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zoux posted:Nothing is until the session is over but when the Speaker of the House says it ain't likely, believe him. Now it has to go to the calendars committee to be placed on the general state calendar, and where it gets placed is going to matter a whole lot. SB 1978 is now on the House's Major State Calendar for Monday. It took one week from the senate committee hearing to the House floor for this bill, and this morning it hadn't even been considered in House committee. If someone with power wants something like this done and the Speaker supports it too, then it'll happen.
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May 18, 2019 19:49
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Lol it didn't even get a hearing in the Senate
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May 18, 2019 19:54
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aaaaaaaaaa I hate our stupid summer job paperboy-rear end legislature
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Nonsense posted:https://twitter.com/davidmcswane/status/1129480197177319424 when the worst person you know, etc
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May 18, 2019 22:41
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https://twitter.com/emmaplatoff/status/1130513929879379968 Well that's how we got there I guess. So now I don't know if it does anything. Chick Fil A remains in jeopardy! Speaking of jeopardy: https://twitter.com/NWSSPC/status/1130511960519237632 Be careful north texas friends zoux fucked around with this message at 17:54 on May 20, 2019 |
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May 20, 2019 17:43
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https://twitter.com/ACLUTx/status/1130527390059454464 I really hope this passes, because those fees and they way they're implemented is the biggest load of poor-punishing bullshit
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Well here's some good news for once. https://twitter.com/chucklindell/status/1130586789574529025  quote:It’s suspected that part of the reason the bills died is that Patrick refused to consider any sort of NDO protection language in a compromise bill, according to conversations with multiple sources. Patrick’s office did not respond to requests for comment. Taking the NDO language out doesn't accomplish anything either so it's just this empty rear end gesture towards social conservatives. https://twitter.com/quorumreport/status/1130606626564710405 lmao zoux fucked around with this message at 23:55 on May 20, 2019 |
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May 20, 2019 22:39
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So the Chick-fil-A thing made it to Abbott desk...I suppose that’s the only red meat they’ll get. Also liberals force conservatives to regulate is the reasoning.
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https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1130648204582760448 A good bill did pass yesterday, one that I've been following, that would ban surprise balance billing from hospitals. Hopefully the governor signs it. Not only would you not get screwed because the doc at the in-network hospital was secretly a contractor for an out of network provider, but it covers imaging, lab fees, anesthesia etc zoux fucked around with this message at 16:50 on May 21, 2019 |
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May 21, 2019 16:46
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hey remember this? https://twitter.com/TexasMonthly/status/1129496647107567616 well it passed https://twitter.com/chucklindell/status/1130688523324014592
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zoux posted:[ This would be great. I got nailed by an out of network ER doc a couple years ago. I managed to negotiate the bill down a bit, but still had to pay a fair amount out of pocket.
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skipdogg posted:This would be great. I got nailed by an out of network ER doc a couple years ago. I managed to negotiate the bill down a bit, but still had to pay a fair amount out of pocket. Oh yeah everyone has, or knows someone who has, that's why this bill is supported by both parties. This happens to you one time and you're like "this should be loving illegal". Like I said, I've been following this one, and when it was in committee the sponsor said that something like 99 percent of these disputes between the provider and the insurer are resolved over a phone call. The provider knows that they aren't going to get what they want from the insurer, so they super high ball them, and the insurer just hands you the bill, hoping you'll pay for it. There already exists a mediation process through TDI but you have to get involved, now it's just between the two corporations. Even better is that if you're in an emergency situation, it doesn't matter if the hospital you end up at is in- or out-of-network because it's not like you can make that call.
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I wonder if that will have an effect on the the freestanding ERs that have been popping up everywhere and with business models based on billing out the rear end for facilities charges. Looks like the billing dispute resolution requires consideration of region-based 80th percentile provider billed amounts and 50th percentile insurer payments for similar services, both of which are not going to be good for those ERs.
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Mediation wasn't available for me because my employer health plan is self funded. Not sure if this bill changes that or not. Texas' position was plans like that fall under Federal EIRSA law. Funny thing though, I called everyone about the bill, and the most helpful people were the Emergency Room company. Very friendly and helpful. I went out of my way to go to an in network facility, and to get the balance bill from the out of network ER doctor contractor was a huge "this should be loving illegal" moment.
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Shifty Pony posted:I wonder if that will have an effect on the the freestanding ERs that have been popping up everywhere and with business models based on billing out the rear end for facilities charges. Looks like the billing dispute resolution requires consideration of region-based 80th percentile provider billed amounts and 50th percentile insurer payments for similar services, both of which are not going to be good for those ERs. Huge effect, their whole business model is surprise billing. skipdogg posted:Mediation wasn't available for me because my employer health plan is self funded. Not sure if this bill changes that or not. Texas' position was plans like that fall under Federal EIRSA law. That sucks, I think the bill allows for ERISA plans to opt-in to TDI mediation since they can't directly regulate them at the state level. I had a kidney stone that I thought was an invisible demon in my belly stabbing me so I went to the ER, they confirmed it was a stone and gave me a bed to writhe around on in pain for a few hours and I had to pay several hundred dollars for the privledge. I had another one, much less severe, but I was worried that it would get worse. So I tried to figure out which ERs were in my network and also employed docs. that were in my network and I spent about 2 hours on the internet and I still couldn't definitively determine coverage. And that's with the luxury of time, if you're loving bleeding to death you have neither the time nor wherewithal to do that. My dad had a brain bleed from a tumor that almost killed him and he ended up in the neuro ICU for like a week and their insurance combed through their records to find a reason to deny him (and they did! Ulceration colitis, apparently, is a preexisting condition that can cause brain cancer. Who knew? Not medical science.) so they ended up having six figue medical bills, but they were able to talk everyone down. That's the hosed up thing, these bills have no relationship to actual costs, so you can negotiate them down, but a) you shouldn't have to b) it's a pain in the rear end and c) you shouldn't have to pay anything in the first place. zoux fucked around with this message at 18:42 on May 21, 2019 |
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May 21, 2019 18:36
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zoux posted:Huge effect, their whole business model is surprise billing. Good. gently caress them and their underhanded predatory bullshit. Edit: also Abbott signed the previous, insufficient, balance billing legislation so I don't see why he would not be for this one. Shifty Pony fucked around with this message at 18:53 on May 21, 2019 |
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May 21, 2019 18:50
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Not surprised my terrible State Senator Dr. Donna Campbell, who has financial interest in freestanding ER's voted against this. Most of the info seems to have been removed from online, but I believe she has ownership in a couple freestanding ER facilities.
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skipdogg posted:Not surprised my terrible State Senator Dr. Donna Campbell, who has financial interest in freestanding ER's voted against this. Most of the info seems to have been removed from online, but I believe she has ownership in a couple freestanding ER facilities. Yep. It's not as bad as Rep. Gary Elkins fighting payday lending regulation while owning 12 payday loan outfits a few years ago but it's shocking to me that there aren't some kind of rules about CoI's. zoux fucked around with this message at 19:18 on May 21, 2019 |
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I don't know the rules of texas leg, but she could have at least voted present, or abstained or something instead. Look poorly for her. Folks around here don't care for her at all (Bulverde area), and if a challenger comes around for her spot they have a good shot at it. I don't know what the expected though when they voted her in. The people I live around though are you're typical conservative pro business, pro small government, lower taxes, anti regulation types... UNTIL it affects them personally. They they start crying about the 3009 Quarry going in, or someone putting a couple 4 million gallon water tanks next to their homes, the TCEQ allowing waste water discharge etc. It basically boils down to "muh propertay values!!" in a nutshell from what I've seen so far. I have a hard time reconciling how so many folks are pro property rights, anti regulation until it affects them directly and then they start looking at the gov to step in and regulate property owners from doing what they like with their property. Property tax drama on local social media is the best though. Everyone wants top dollar when it's an asset on their books or it's time to sell, but Comal County has had explosive growth and property values are way up, and you would think it's the end of the world. skipdogg fucked around with this message at 19:37 on May 21, 2019 |
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One of the reporters I follow, Kim Reeves, noted once that Dallas Democratic Senator Royce West always votes PNV on bond issues as he's a bond attorney, but that's all I've ever heard of in either chamber.
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Suing the governor because my eyes just rolled so hard that I pulled my optic nerve
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zoux posted:
Is this the first good thing he's ever done in his life? I'd be celebrating too
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Wildeyes posted:Is this the first good thing he's ever done in his life? I'd be celebrating too https://twitter.com/edwonkkimmy/status/1130930175787585541 Midnight deadline and they are right now on SB 20: https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/86R/calendars/html/H220190521.htm zoux fucked around with this message at 21:27 on May 21, 2019 |
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May 21, 2019 21:24
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We're now in an hour plus recess after Stickland called a Point of Order on SB 10. Senate is also taking recess.
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Mistaken Frisbee posted:We're now in an hour plus recess after Stickland called a Point of Order on SB 10. Senate is also taking recess. https://twitter.com/lmcgaughy/status/1130991167049478145 Bill analysis again. It's really hosed up that the House allows this kind of poo poo.
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so happy my tough-on-crime DA is going after the true crime lords Traveling Grandmother Jailed for CBD Oil: 'I Slept on the Floor… Next to the Toilet'
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Someone earlier called it a paperboy legislature and man are they correct
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TropicalCoke posted:Someone earlier called it a paperboy legislature and man are they correct I don't get it Every so often there's discussion of a full time legislature to which I say You want these guys making more laws? https://twitter.com/JeremySWallace/status/1131018868162473984 TFW you're polling in the MoE zoux fucked around with this message at 03:10 on May 22, 2019 |
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/lmcgaughy/status/1130991167049478145 Everything about this is weird. Emergency item by governor, every single senator signed on, has $100 million appropriation, immediately moved through senate, languished in House for two months, then was only scheduled for House floor on last day not on the Major State Calendar or at the top of the general state calendar. We were very strongly in support of SB 10. It was extremely important to the mental health advocates/medical community, to the senate/governor's office. We didn't really have student mental health in the budget because the senate was going all in on this. I'm sure they'll find a way to revive this on the senate side somehow, but it's hard to overstate how much of a must-pass this bill was.
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Mistaken Frisbee posted:Everything about this is weird. Emergency item by governor, every single senator signed on, has $100 million appropriation, immediately moved through senate, languished in House for two months, then was only scheduled for House floor on last day not on the Major State Calendar or at the top of the general state calendar. It's a top priority for the Senate Finance chair so I imagine she'll try her best to get it done. And if not, they can strip the funding for Sticky's red light camera ban out of the budget and tell him to go gently caress himself. I wonder how many votes they could get to expel him from the House zoux fucked around with this message at 03:22 on May 22, 2019 |
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Sticky also point of ordered the animal welfare bill from yesterday. Up to 3 kills.
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Mistaken Frisbee posted:Everything about this is weird. Emergency item by governor, every single senator signed on, has $100 million appropriation, immediately moved through senate, languished in House for two months, then was only scheduled for House floor on last day not on the Major State Calendar or at the top of the general state calendar. Im sure you’re watching too but they’re about to stick this on SB 11 over the hysterical objections of sticklord
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zoux posted:Im sure you’re watching too but they’re about to stick this on SB 11 over the hysterical objections of sticklord One of my close colleagues worked on that SB 11 amendment (we worked on this bill a lot), so we were terrified about the removal and confused why Rep. Stickland was nervous. Now at least we know the plan. This is amazing to watch in the last hour. Entire House against Stickland.
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