Kacho
Gold Member
If they select an unbiased jury this guy will be found guilty.
The jury will not be made up of CEOs so the rhetorical question is pointless.
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UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson assassinated
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The jury will not be made up of CEOs so the rhetorical question is pointless.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
I dont know how juries are picked, but just like a job interview, you should pick people who are able minded, smart and can make a good decision.
I dont see what's the point of putting a person on trial decided by 12 idiots.
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Dural
Member
He didn't have his own insurance on the bike that would cover medical if the other driver wasn't insured?
Did he not have state insurance if he was down on his luck, I assume that means out of work? You can get state insurance (medicaid) if you're unemployed.
~40% of Americans are on either Medicaid or Medicare, a form of universal care.
daffyduck
Member
violence
Gold Member
He might get thrown into Guantánamo Bay.
Muffdraul
Member
"If they select a jury that's biased the exact same way I am, this guy will be found guilty."
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
I think he'll be found guilty of murder but not terrorism.
Statistically, almost no one appeals claim denials, so insurance companies will sometimes reject a claim for no other reason than they think they can get away with it. Always have to push back and appeal if you think they’re wrongfully denying.Something I found online I thought could be of use to AmeriGaf. Don't know if it's necessary all over USA, but I guess it's better to know than to not:
Kacho
Gold Member
He was found with the murder weapon and a manifesto confessing to the crime
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
I think he's talking about the terrorism charge
Muffdraul
Member
I'm talking about everything. Literally everyone has a bias. There's no need to go into the specifics of this case. As if there's never been anyone in history who committed premediated murder and people with different biases saw it in two opposite ways and could make sound arguments to support their positions.
To think your own view is unbiased and only those who disagree are biased... I don't think I can accurately describe someone who thinks that way without risking a ban.
To think your own view is unbiased and only those who disagree are biased... I don't think I can accurately describe someone who thinks that way without risking a ban.
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
My doctors offices usually appeal for me automatically. In my experience(knock on wood) if your doctor appeals and says it's medically necessary, insurance companies won't fight them on it. Unless it's something absolutely absurd. Which the doctor likely wouldn't ask for to begin with.
My insurance company basically denies every single thing my doctors order. I can't remember the last time something was immediately approved aside from some cheap medication. This month alone I've had a reupping of my medication I've been taking for 10+ years that keeps me alive and healthy denied for no apparent reason. My doctor appealed and it was approved. Then an MRI he ordered denied. He appealed and it was approved. I find out days later when I get letters in the mail. Usually one confirming the denial and then a couple days later confirming the approval after the appeal.
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DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
Speaking of healthcare, the San Francisco department of health is hiring a "fat positivity expert" to consult on public health.
Diet culture, generally, is the set of social beliefs that certain foods are “good” because they’re associated with thinness and moral virtue, while other foods are “bad” because they’re associated with fat and lack of moral virtue.
The idea is gaining some traction in the field of medicine, where many patients have experienced weight-based bias. Some physicians are starting to practice what’s known as weight-neutral care, which emphasizes that patients can be healthy at any weight or size.
This quackery is dangerous. Bringing in unhinged weirdos who want to live in a fantasy world consulting on public health and we now have some physicians telling patients they can be healthy at any size? Thank fucking christ this stuff is only in a very small recesses of the medical community, but even that is too much. You can't be healthy at "any size." Someone who weighs 500 lbs is not healthy. If the crazies want to start their own blogs to push this garbage, go right ahead. But hiring them and paying them 12 grand to consult the department of health for a city is laughable. Weirdos in denial about their weight trying to push factual falsities to make themselves feel better about their own bodies have no business consulting on anything let alone health.
Diet culture, generally, is the set of social beliefs that certain foods are “good” because they’re associated with thinness and moral virtue, while other foods are “bad” because they’re associated with fat and lack of moral virtue.
The idea is gaining some traction in the field of medicine, where many patients have experienced weight-based bias. Some physicians are starting to practice what’s known as weight-neutral care, which emphasizes that patients can be healthy at any weight or size.
This quackery is dangerous. Bringing in unhinged weirdos who want to live in a fantasy world consulting on public health and we now have some physicians telling patients they can be healthy at any size? Thank fucking christ this stuff is only in a very small recesses of the medical community, but even that is too much. You can't be healthy at "any size." Someone who weighs 500 lbs is not healthy. If the crazies want to start their own blogs to push this garbage, go right ahead. But hiring them and paying them 12 grand to consult the department of health for a city is laughable. Weirdos in denial about their weight trying to push factual falsities to make themselves feel better about their own bodies have no business consulting on anything let alone health.
PSYGN
Member
> In a 2020 interview with the Chronicle, Tovar described the podcast as “a food-positive, body-positive podcast that helps people break up with diet culture, one corn dog at a time.”
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It must suck working in a department where legit clowns are allowed to throw opinions in the face of actual science. But then maybe it's a clown academy there and all the sane ones have left.
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StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Always amazing when protesters always seem to fit that profile of sketchy, unemployed or minimum wager, and look like they woke up at 2 pm in the afternoon after slumming it on the couch all night.
diffusionx
Gold Member
spiteful mutants, bioleninism, whatever you want to call it, there’s a reason protest/activism attracts the dregs of society and why these movements select for it
Kacho
Gold Member
Lmfao!
violence
Gold Member
Heavy
Jinzo Prime
Member
I'm paying for their healthcare.
Pegasus Actual
Member
Ahem you are paying to perpetuate a CRIME AGAINST THEIR HUMANITY. Do keep up.
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
The other picture is heavy too but in a different way
12Goblins
Lil’ Gobbie
Jessica Ritchey (@jmritchey.bsky.social)
"Okay, get some snaps of that Mangione character, but you better not pull any bullshit where he looks like the subject in a 16th century painting called 'Christ taken at the Garden of Gethsemane'." "Okay, now don't be mad but..."
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Donald mac Ronald
Member
They're acting like they've caught Osama. This along with the woman being charged for saying some words.. is yeah you go after our elites/CEOs and they will fuck you.
Yoboman
Member
Acting like it's the crime of the centuryJessica Ritchey (@jmritchey.bsky.social)
"Okay, get some snaps of that Mangione character, but you better not pull any bullshit where he looks like the subject in a 16th century painting called 'Christ taken at the Garden of Gethsemane'." "Okay, now don't be mad but..."
Jinzo Prime
Member
Jessica Ritchey (@jmritchey.bsky.social)
"Okay, get some snaps of that Mangione character, but you better not pull any bullshit where he looks like the subject in a 16th century painting called 'Christ taken at the Garden of Gethsemane'." "Okay, now don't be mad but..."
Socialists sure do love violent murders, don't they?
I used to work for a major corporation as an FTE. Medical was f'ing amazing. I paid 0 for things rating from physical exams and tests to my wife having an emergency c section and spending a weekend in the hospital. The problem, with all things like this, is abuse. People would go to the emergency room with sniffles. Soon, you know what happened? A deductible was implemented. People were up in arms.the company called them out. There are too many emergency room visits for non emergencies and it is costing us a boatload of money.
Meowtor
Gold Member
theres a waiting list everywhere in america too. idk the last time you needed tests or imaging done but get ready to wait
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
Crazy woman is jealous of fit women so she's becoming the new weight czar of San Fran(one of the fittest cities in America) to try and make them fat so she doesn't have to be fat alone. Listen to this utter garbage. Maybe out healthcare costs would go down if everyone was healthier, just a thought.
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DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Gotta love it, the smiley face and wacky music are there to disguise how bitterly hateful and resentful this crazy bitch is.
Shaming women who practice discipline and restraint about eating cake, now that’s what I call feminism.
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DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
She says in the video the women who want smaller cake slice sizes think they're superior. That's a total projection. She's just jealous of women who are more fit than she is and she hates seeing other women have the willpower she doesn't have and projects flaws onto them. And somehow this nut was given a contract to consult on the SF department of public health.
Pegasus Actual
Member
Unless you live in Washington state, then it seems like thr minimum wage is increased every 6 months. They are set to raise it again in January. Then people scratch their heads wondering why crap is even more expensive...
BTW, not sure where you guys are but my son gets paid almost, if not, as much as $20 an hour to stock shelves...
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DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
Federal minimum wage hasn't been increased since 2003 or 2007... I forget which year. Some companies pay above it but only by so much. Some pay 9 bucks and hour, some a little more... Very few pay at cost of living... Your son is lucky to live in a state where he can get 20 an hour to stock shelves. Most don't. A lot of people have to have a roommate to be able to live where they are. Skimp and save just or buy the bare minimum just to live within their means while still paying their bills.
diffusionx
Gold Member
this is the person calling you a chud online
Dirk Benedict
Member
While the rest of us in Cali are trying to struggle towards something that resembles "normalcy" San Fran continues to double down on some crazy stuff. Not that some progress hasn't been made there, too. It's just seems like it's a big uphill fight for them.
It could be they think, the fatter you are, the sooner you die, less healthcare costs are paid out.
12Goblins
Lil’ Gobbie
-seems like she's doing comedy? saying ridiculous shit to attract attention?
-per comments her contract as consultant to fight "weight stigma" ends in June 2025 (6 month contract lol?)
-not sure why we enjoy to pick on fat people in the US. we are getting more and more fat as a country and literally zero persons is getting fat because they think it's "healthy"... I bet most people hating on fat people online are themselves fat just hate themselves. if you are fit and healthy - why in the world would you ever ridicule a fat person? they need our help
-not sure what this has to do with arkham inmate, luigi mangione
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ProtoByte
Weeb Underling
Cuomo shouldn't have even let her premise slide. "Medical debt is violence"? Please.
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
-Not comedy. Completely real person who is a fat acceptance activist.
-Yes, 6 months. Don't know if that's standard for the position or not.
-I don't know what you mean by "pick on" but I think people like to crack jokes about fat people is because 99% of the time it's entirely their choice for being overweight and isn't like someone having ALS or something. And I agree they need our help. That help entails not telling people that you can be healthy at any size and wanting to watch what you eat is "fatphobic." We need to preach health more as a society, not preach to people they can eat whatever they want and fatness being bad is just a stigma.
-The Luigi Mangione story is kinda dead at this point until it goes to trial which may not be for a year+, so might as well talk about healthcare related matters in here.
Nydius
Gold Member
It's not conflicting: Both are true.
First a nitpick: Medicare is only for seniors and disabled. Medicaid is for lower income individuals... if they qualify. It's a small distinction but an important one because Medicare is fully federally run whereas Medicaid is state run with federal assistance.
I digress. Neither Medicare nor Medicaid will pay 100% of medical bills. Medicare has an 80%/20% benefit split, meaning they'll pay up to 80% of what they consider the claim to be worth and the patient has to pay the other 20%. Medicare also has premiums that have to be paid - for 2025 the Part B (general care) premium is $185 a month. Medicare recipients can cover that other 20% by buying Medicare Supplemental Insurance through a third party, but that usually costs hundreds of dollars per month in added premiums. Medicaid, conversely, usually doesn't have premiums but they do have copays and deductibles, depending on state system and managed care plans they contract with.
So, if someone is on Medicare and they don't have a supplemental insurance plan, they have to pay 20% of every Medicare claim. If they have something catastrophic that requires a lengthy hospital stay with multiple procedures, that 20% bill can easily be enough to bankrupt them despite having Medicare.
I can give a practical example from my late mother's 2007 heart attack that had a botched stent. She ended up in the hospital for three weeks and needed three more surgeries including an internal defibrillator. Her combined total bill was over $600K. Medicare determined they'd pay $274K, which was all the hospital and various doctors and practices would get. Of that determined amount, Medicare only actually paid out 80%, and my mom got bills to the tune of $55K. Thankfully my dad had invested in a Medicare supplemental insurance plan so my mom ultimately paid nothing but if she had to pay the bill out of pocket, it would have been a massive financially hit. She could have paid it, but it would have taken nearly half of her lifetime retirement savings.
As an aside, if people think getting claims through private insurance is bad, just wait until you have to deal with Medicare. I've managed my wife's Medicare benefits for the last four years and they're much quicker to deny claims and medications than any private insurers we ever had in the past. We're going on month 7 and appeal number 2 trying to get her hemolytic anemia treatment approved (rituximab IV infusions). Meanwhile, that IV doesn't even require a prior authoriziation on my private insurer's prescription formulary. It's why I laugh anytime I hear someone champion Medicare for All. If they had to deal with Medicare on a regular basis, they wouldn't want government anywhere near their care. Either you deal with corporate bean counters or government bureaucrats determining whether or not you get care. I'll take bean counters over bureaucrats.
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