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  1. You didn’t have a 210k bill that required your payment. You only had to cover your copay so why mention the $210k?

    If I’d chosen to go to a different hospital with a different contract with UnitedHealthcare, I could’ve been on the hook for a portion or all of that $210K. It came down to luck I went to the right hospital. Healthcare costs shouldn’t come down to luck.
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  2. 34 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

    This would be for federal income tax purposes only.  State-law property taxes would be unaffected.

    Until the first challenge that runs through the courts.

  3. 31 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    My main ER experiences have been with my mom, who has a medicare advantage plan. I pay her bills, and even with ICU and regular hospital admits, she's received bills less than $500 for each ER-to-hospital stay. I was completely shocked that a 1-day ER and 3-day ICU totaled out of pocket $500. Did her insurance pay a lot more? 100% absolutely.

    I don't mean this as a let them eat cake attitude, but if people walk around with either no health insurance or extremely bad insurance, they will eventually have medical debt. Especially in states like Texas that don't care. 

     

    It's totally a let them eat cake attitude.  You're applying a single example to the masses.

    For example, I have the top PPO plan my Fortune 500 company offers and my ER bill a few months ago was $1,700 out of pocket for being there 3 hours.  It's literally the best insurance I can get. Due to a heart condition, I am uninsurable outside of a work group plan or  Obamacare.

    That same plan refused to pay my $210,000 bill for stents 7 years ago because I should not have been admitted to the hospital for undetermined chest pains, the blockage should have never been discovered.  That's literally what the denial letter stated.  Luckily, their contract with Seton said the hospital had to eat any costs beyond my copay limits. 

    The entire system is broken. 

     

     

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  4. 1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    I don't understand why medical debt is somehow viewed as a shortcoming of the system. Is it better than someone has debt for their boat but not have debt to save the life of their child? If it means I'm alive, take all of my money.

    The issue is people have to choose if medical care is worth the cost.  The average American can't afford shit.  Going to ER, knowing you will get a bill pushing $2,000 even with insurance, causes many people to put it off.  This potentially makes it worse. When you've got 50 bucks to your name, that choice becomes more difficult.  It's easy to say "take my money" when you have money because you know can make more money.  For the working poor that mentality and ability doesn't exist.  Medical debt is something they can rarely, if ever, get out of.

     

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  5. A cop pulled over a car with two catholic priests inside. The cop tells the driver “I’m looking for two pedophiles.” The driver turns to the other priest and they whisper back and forth. He turns back to the cop and says “Ok. We’ll do it.”

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  6. 19 hours ago, bolverk said:

    If that argument wins, wouldn't it also extend to increases in property taxes due to higher valuations?

    Fuck them schools. They don't need nothing but the Bible to learns from anyways.  

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  7. 2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    The average GOP voter would want to fix an overcrowded ER by suggesting that hospitals need to check the immigration status of anyone who "looks Mexican." The nice GOP voter will say that they don't want a hospital to refuse to save a dying illegal alien but that Homeland Security also needs to detain/deport them. The not-so-nice majority will disagree about the saving part.

    The next Texas GQP platform:  The obvious answer to assure minimized wait times is to have separate hospitals for citizens (white) and for potential non-citizens (non-white). 

     

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  8. 32 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

    They could have had Elko easy Saturday and no fuckery (and yes it’s aggy but HC searches are ugly.) I

    Stoops out interviewed Elko. It's that simple.  Stoops was the pick. The interview panel obviously agreed because a decision was relatively quick.  If it was a toss up, there would've been additional interviews and vetting. There wasn't.  So, even in aggy eyes, Elko is a distant runner up.

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  9. We can make fun of the Stoops family all we want but that dude has won, on the regular, in football, at Kentucky, in the SEC. Aggy has done far worse than Mark Stoops.

    They’re about to do way worse. No coach with options will choose aggy. It is now only viewed as a career ending golden parachute retirement plan.
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  10. I have a chance to go see them Sunday. I know nothing. Worth it?

    What Jimmy said is accurate. They are a fantastic live band and they’ve recorded some great rock songs on their 4 albums.

    Their drummer engaged the crowd more than any drummer I’ve seen. It ranged from taking over the lead mike to berate a dumb ass that was fighting and having him escorted out to, during a bass solo, leaving his kit and climbing down into the crowd to take a picture with three little kids that were rocking out in the side of the stage.

  11. As funny as this is most players on all teams probably love this stuff more than a real catering hall dinner. But what are those ball things in the trough?

    I was sick and missed going to Thanksgiving dinner. I made myself some chili. I think I may have had a better meal.
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