Luigi Thirty posted:

https://twitter.com/Ethan_Booker/status/806892797211066369

kustomkarkommando posted:

have people freaked out about his friendly relationship with putin yet

Volkerball posted:

https://twitter.com/nein_adolf_nein/status/810894030624161792

That video is going into the history vault.

Avshalom posted:

oh lord my outlook account comes pre-loaded with the email addresses of every single employee worldwide and i am seriously tempted to send every last one of them an update about my intense physiology

Majorian posted:

You took him out of context, exmarx. Lesbians were mean to him online, you see:

https://twitter.com/luzariuslive/status/811795658357096448

Main Paineframe posted:

here's the reason: because he doesn't want to

it contradicts his worldview in some fundamental way, so rather than dumping his worldview or attempting to reconcile it with that new information, he just rejects the facts

Hollismason posted:

All my doctors are now out of network . I tried to have a reasonable conversation with my Insurance Company. It pretty much ended with me ranting about capitalism and telling the person on the phone to quit their job because the company is evil.

This was after they gave me a list of 500 offices to call in order to see if they accepted my insurance.


So that went well.

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Ruth Skoog will undergo her second hip replacement of the year later this week.

She's calling it a "Christmas miracle" that her doctor could squeeze in the operation before year's end. Skoog has already spent enough money on care this year to satisfy her health plan's out-of-pocket maximum, so her insurer will cover the surgery's entire cost.

But if she has the same procedure with the same doctor after Jan. 1, it would cost her thousands of dollars.

Just like retailers, doctors, hospitals, pharmacies and health plans see a jump in business around the holidays, and it's due to policies actually designed to slow health spending.

High-deductible health plans that Skoog and many Americans now have push people who've met their deductible to scramble for appointments of all kinds during the end of the year.

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Cost sharing can be painfully expensive, but it helps bring down monthly premiums.

The moment a policyholder reaches their out-of-pocket maximum, their price of care goes from expensive to free -- insurance covers 100 percent.

Insurance broker Heidi Mathson said dramatic increases in out-of-pocket costs have brought the financial incentives into sharp focus for consumers.

"If you are going to have a procedure or a surgery or you're going to have some kind of event that causes you to meet your deductible," she said, "then it's really beneficial to you to maximize and use up all of the health services that you can in that calendar year."

When 35-year-old Brian Ernste hit his deductible in May, he said, "it's like I won the lottery!"

He's a financial planner who kept his bottom line in mind when scheduling an elective surgery for early this year, knowing he'd hit his maximum payments. Since Ernste's care became free in spring, he's seen his doctor five or six times.

"I had a few minor concerns," he said, "and I thought, 'Hey, I don't have to pay anything to go talk to her so why not go in?'"

Insurance companies take the hit in instances like that.

Health insurer Medica said it pays out 16 percent more for care in December than during the average month.

The purpose of deductibles and other-cost sharing provisions is to encourage people to think twice about getting care in hopes of cutting down on unnecessary doctor visits.

NewForumSoftware posted:

Who could have possibly known intervening in the middle east in the name of Democracy could blow up in our faces?

Are you being ironic?

Raskolnikov38 posted:

hey who wants to see the worst t-shirt in the world

http://americanfash.com/wp-content/...l-2001-11x7.png

boner confessor posted:

the best thing about turning off comments is how mad it makes free speech absolutists and people who really get off on trolling

Mustached Demon posted:

Salaried workers that make over like 30k/yr don't collect overtime. Obama raised it to 45kish but was told to gently caress off.

boner confessor posted:

congrats on your first ban rotd

The Muppets On PCP posted:

attn: vb

https://twitter.com/JNCOapparel/status/818210738732986369

Chelb posted:

Chelb posted:

i apparently need to weigh 110 pounds and i might be just a little bit below that

Furnaceface posted:

Did 2016 just remove all the barriers we had on sanity and reason or something? People seem especially vile lately, even here on SA.