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You leak our secrets? We’ll leak your book sales, speech fees – into our coffers: Uncle Sam wins royalties fight against Edward Snowden
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Regarding: US Health Care expenses and how health insurers want (and get) higher costs:
No out-of-pocket expense in this case, probably because the doctor’s office knows they’ll get their asses sued for unnecessary testing:
The news was her insurance company was mailing her family a check ― for more than $25,000 ― to cover some out-of-network lab tests. The actual bill was $28,395.50, but the doctor’s office said it would waive her portion of the bill: $2,530.26.
Note that the insurance company didn’t hesitate to cut a check for a completely overblown charge:
In this case, if the doctor had sent the throat swab off to LabCorp ― Kasdan’s in-network provider ― it would have billed her insurance company about $653 for “all the ordered tests, or an equivalent,” LabCorp told NPR.
You got that - a $27k markup for diagnostic tests.
Why would the health insurer pay more than they need to:
Even though Kasdan wasn’t stuck with this bill, practices like this run up the cost of medical care. Insurance companies base premiums on their expenses, and the more those rise the more participants have to pay.
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excelente
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I’m sure the Dept. of Corrections union will have their say first before any firings. Because of course they will
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We’ve had enough of your beach-blocking shenanigans, California tells stubborn Sun co-founder: Kiss our lawsuit
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This is a long, long thread that starts before this, but remember when UNC got busted for paying off the Sons of Confederate Veterans over the removal of the Silent Sam statue?
This is wild. Like clown-show wild. Pull together some patience and read the whole thing.
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The DEA seized a 79-year-old man’s life savings at airport and won’t give it back
There was a Steve Lehto video posted to the thread, but this one is about that incident.
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I believe it is always better to know the truth, even if it turns out to not conform to one’s previous assumptions. As the writer points out, she’s no fan of this person or her religion, but it turns out what she said really was taken out of context.
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Well, well, well. Internet-of-Things speaker biz Sonos to continue some software support for legacy kit after all
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Mysterious face-recog AI startup Clearview sued, capabilities questioned after scraping billions of web pics
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Not everyone has accepted White’s explanation, but frankly, her explanation makes perfect sense
No. No it doesn’t. Not in the slightest.
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Y’know those many, many stories about dark patterns?
Thread:
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Within the context of that particular religious sect, it does. Does it make sense to anyone else? No, of course not, but at least we now know that she meant something metaphorical, not literal. She’s still a hateful, bigoted person.
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Eh. I don’t give Scientologists a pass when they babble in their private cult lingo, so I don’t see that I have to give her a pass. It’s just another warning flag.
Loading the Language:
“Our own special language helps you to think the way we want you to think.”
All groups have their own unique slang, and every discipline and even spiritual practice has some jargon, but an abusive group will use its language to separate its people so that you can’t understand them – keeping the new recruit in a constant state of confusion, having to learn a new whole vocabulary just to progress. Also, creating a vocabulary creates a pattern of thought, and messages can be slipped in with ease – any group labeling itself “The Truth” subconsciously tells its members, every time they say the name of their organization: “this is the truth,” making anything the leadership says that much harder to question – in the mind of the inculcated member, the organization is the truth.
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