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I've been saying this all season about the Bengals defense but I like this approach with the Dems too

 

headline on CNN says "Manhunt underway for gunman who fatally shot UnitedHealthcare CEO" - I hope one of you New Yorkers is gonna help hide this guy in your 80-sq-ft micro studio that you rent for $5000 a month

 

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/1...-midtown-nyc-united-healthcare-brian-thompson

 

That's my health insurance. Won't say much about this dude but they're the most evil health insurance company I've ever had and I've specifically been dropped by old doctors because they were sick of dealing with United.

 

Oh man, the bipartisan support condemning the rhetoric against corporations and CEOs that is going to come from this is going to be nauseating.

They are gonna lay this on Bernie and the left's feet.

 

IIRC, UHC was, years ago, one of the first that said something like 'You have T1D, and you MUST use this pump, and not the other ones, and if you have the other ones, we will not cover it. So you have to switch'.

 

I don't think you're wrong but also fuck them

 

Yeah let the people everyone instinctively hates be the ones to say “but think of the CEOs” imo

 

I think I've been on some form of Highmark/BCBS most of my life and have generally had decent experiences with them. Even when I was on medicaid, they were the provider IIRC. Only complaint now is the prices for my mom on the individual market hah.

We actually found a good plan for a good price for her last year (something liek $250 a month for a plan with no deductibles and low copays), but she's making a bit more money this year with her pension starting up so that same plan would be like $420 a month or something, so we're probably gonna step down to a plan with a deductible. Luckily there seems to be a few that still cover basics beyond the preventative health mandates with just a co-pay, but it still leaves open that grey area of what counts as "just" an office visit vs. now it's a treatment/diagnosis and you're getting charged more than the co-pay and etc.

 

I'm hoping this starts a trend like people recording themselves doing dances

 

The FBI will narrow their search to 20 million people who have a possible motive

 

what a piece of shit

 

ftfy

 

Yo is this real lol love tipping my delivery driver sub $3 so that i can do ragebait online. True piece of shit, give him the UnitedHealthcare treatment imo.

 

this is wrong. someone's brother might be a CEO.

are you all calling for a CEO genocide!?!?!

SMH

 

They finally went after an insurance guy. It is a daily occurrence that my medical staff gets a call from an irate patient that their meds aren't covered. Every day I get denials from insurance companies for life saving meds. Every day I have to beg some person who's never seen a patient that I need insurance to pay for a drug.

Nurses and physicians have been killed by patients angry over healthcare costs.

I hope this is just the first of many.

 

10% tip for delivery is shitty. If it's takeout I'd understand. No one used to tip take out back before covid (well, most people...some would give small tips like a buck lol), but since covid it seemed to become more common place. We still always tip for curbside pick up. If we have to go into the restaurant to get it, it's hit or miss, mostly on whether we remember to do it or not lol

Delivery should always be minimum 20% just like if you sat down at a restaurant IMO. I think 15% used to be the norm way back when? Always seemed too low to me.

 

this is shinzo abe assassin level

 

Maybe the government shouldn’t have spent the last year normalizing and rationalizing the most extreme violence anyone has ever seen as right and necessary.

 

Since we talked about the Michigan Governor race a little bit ago, here is a monkey wrench that I did not foresee. I don't quite understand why as a life long Democrat you would make this move. Feel like its just going to pull Dem votes and lead to a Republican winning.

 

are there any good insurances tho? no, right?

 

you are right. I apologize and recant my previous post celebrating a person being shot.

Just kidding!!! I hope the bullets were hollow point and he got hit in the stomach!!!

 

I'm not sure, but one time when I was starting a new job we had to get COBRA for a few months until the new insurance kicked in and it cost roughly 8 million dollars per month and completely fucked us for about a year

 

They are a necessary evil. Im thankful we have things covered, We are paying what we are charged, and dealing with it, but the prices go up each year, and the out of pocket expenses go up each year....