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If only the knuckleheads condemning his act would spend a quarter of the energy either looking into why people are praising him and/or just doing something about healthcare in this country.

NC has a no surprise/balance billing law. Didn’t stop us from getting a surprise bill of $700 for my daughter’s ear surgery because the Insurance company left a balance. It’s not gonna break our bank account or anything, but there are plenty of people that this kind of bill would present a serious problem to.
 
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Nee Lewman said:
If only the knuckleheads condemning his act would spend a quarter of the energy either looking into why people are praising him and/or just doing something about healthcare in this country.

NC has a no surprise/balance billing law. Didn’t stop us from getting a surprise bill of $700 for my daughter’s ear surgery because the Insurance company left a balance. It’s not gonna break our bank account or anything, but there are plenty of people that this kind of bill would present a serious problem to.
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I have an MRI upcoming. I’ve asked the provider if it’s covered, I get “We don’t see any prior authorizations required.” Okay so it’s covered? “MRIs are a covered benefit under your health plan.” Okay so how much is covered? “You’ll need to contact your insurance provider for that information.”

And of course insurance can’t say because they don’t have a bill. NO OTHER TRANSACTION IS LIKE THIS!

When you go to buy a car or groceries or whatever you don’t wait 3-4 weeks for a bill, you pay what’s advertised. Even if we keep our system as is a fucking fixed cost list would go so far. Of course a fixed cost list can’t exist so long as insurance plays middle man and drives the cost of everything up.

I hate this ride and I want off.
 
Nee Lewman said:
I’m not googling bed bug guy - splain yourself, Lucy.
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"The saga that culminated in Stephens deactivating his Twitter account began on Monday when Stuart A. Thompson, an assistant editor for New York Times Opinion, tweeted that there were bedbugs in the Times’s newsroom.
About four hours later, Dave Karpf, an associate professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University, responded to Thompson’s tweet with a joke about how “The bedbugs are a metaphor. The bedbugs are Bret Stephens.”

Stephens emailed him and his provost at 9:10 pm to complain about it.
“Someone just pointed out a tweet you wrote about me, calling me a ‘bedbug,’” Stephens began. “I’m often amazed about the things supposedly decent people are prepared to say about other people — people they’ve never met — on Twitter. I think you’ve set a new standard.”
Stephens went on to invite Karpf to come over to his house, meet his family, and insult him to his face.
“Maybe it will make you feel better about yourself,” he added.
It’s not like Karpf’s tweet, which didn’t even tag Stephens’s account, went viral. It had garnered a mere handful of likes and zero retweets when Stephens sent the email, which Karpf posted on Twitter. From there, the story exploded."
 
The Denmarkian Wonder said:
"The saga that culminated in Stephens deactivating his Twitter account began on Monday when Stuart A. Thompson, an assistant editor for New York Times Opinion, tweeted that there were bedbugs in the Times’s newsroom.
About four hours later, Dave Karpf, an associate professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University, responded to Thompson’s tweet with a joke about how “The bedbugs are a metaphor. The bedbugs are Bret Stephens.”

Stephens emailed him and his provost at 9:10 pm to complain about it.
“Someone just pointed out a tweet you wrote about me, calling me a ‘bedbug,’” Stephens began. “I’m often amazed about the things supposedly decent people are prepared to say about other people — people they’ve never met — on Twitter. I think you’ve set a new standard.”
Stephens went on to invite Karpf to come over to his house, meet his family, and insult him to his face.
“Maybe it will make you feel better about yourself,” he added.
It’s not like Karpf’s tweet, which didn’t even tag Stephens’s account, went viral. It had garnered a mere handful of likes and zero retweets when Stephens sent the email, which Karpf posted on Twitter. From there, the story exploded."
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Thanks Denmarkian Google.
 
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