Professorozone
@Professorozone@lemmy.world
- Comment on I can't believe this is the only comm that will not throw a hissy fit about this. 4 days ago:
And worse than that, I’ve barely scratched the surface. I’m pretty sure that people who think we have the best healthcare have never actually used it.
I think we have the best healthcare no one can access.
- Comment on I can't believe this is the only comm that will not throw a hissy fit about this. 5 days ago:
No. What happened was my wife worked for probably two years to get the insurance company to pay the full bill or have the ambulance company reduce it.
In case anyone here doesn’t know, never pay the first bill you get. Wait until the final bill. The insurance company and the provider keep negotiating and the price comes down, often in a significant way.
Anyway, the air ambulance service refused to reduce and just said they didn’t negotiate. That was just what they charge. The insurance company just kept saying that they already paid and weren’t going to pay more. Mind you after the $124,000 hospital bill, we had reached her out-of-pocket maximum of $16,000, which we did pay. Mind you, my wife was unconscious and actually never agreed to be airlifted. When it looked like they were going to sue us for the rest of the bill, my wife’s employer agreed to pay the bill for us. They were self insured and not happy with the carrier they had chosen. This apparently wasn’t the first issue they had had with their employees. It was a non profit and we were grateful for their kindness.
Also, we had the same problem with the ground ambulance which charged $1600 to drive her from the airport to the hospital, a distance of about 2 miles. You can literally see the hospital from the airport.
Also on a related note, since we had paid our maximum family out of pocket, I opted to have a recommended colonoscopy at that time. That’s when we found out that I am NOT family. Family=children. I’m a spouse and had to meet my own out-of-pocket maximum. It’s a really great system.
- Comment on I can't believe this is the only comm that will not throw a hissy fit about this. 6 days ago:
My wife was air lifted via fixed wing aircraft. The 45 min. flight was $55,000. Insurance covered $11,000.
- Comment on I can't believe this is the only comm that will not throw a hissy fit about this. 6 days ago:
Screw that! Medicare costs money. I want mine covered by the taxes I already pay. Just cut out the wars and we’re good.
- Comment on Why do we see Oil as always being here for humans? Isn't drilling like taking water out of a swimming pool? Sooner or later your going to run out of water. 1 week ago:
Yes but imagine the glorious wars that will be fought over that last drop.
- Comment on three cheers for fate! 1 week ago:
And a CEO drowned?
- Comment on Two ICE agents in plain clothes punched and tried to handcuff an Australian man at Las Vegas Airport. When they saw they were being filmed, they quickly left. 2 weeks ago:
I’m with you buddy.
- Comment on The Ultimate Robot Knockout Legend (URKL) is a professional, freestyle combat sports league for full-sized humanoid robots. This is real. 2 weeks ago:
When I was a kid we had a game called Rockem Sockem Robots (sp?) and knocking the head of was the definition of winning.
- Comment on Sounds beautiful 2 weeks ago:
Much fewer.
- Comment on Sounds beautiful 3 weeks ago:
But all of the stories are of guys getting BJs.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 3 weeks ago:
Why not divide up ALL of their wealth?
- Comment on Kentucky pastor defends viral video showing mock firing squad, who call themselves Commandos for Christ, enter the chapel to apparently “shoot the devil.” in front of children during bible school 5 weeks ago:
Well… It’s what Jesus would do.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 5 weeks ago:
It’s certainly does. Thank you.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 5 weeks ago:
I need sources.
- Comment on Library Apps are GOATed 5 weeks ago:
Usually I just use the library online. Recently they made me come in to renew my card. While I was there I looked at the movies and saw one that I had just rented on Amazon. Face Palm.
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 1 month ago:
No. I mean like presidents and prime ministers. They’ll still ride alone but on a 737 instead of a Gulfstream.
- Comment on Spoilers 1 month ago:
Did you take the money back?
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 1 month ago:
Guess those rich people are just going to have to start buying commercial jets. What a nightmare!
- Comment on DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S 1 month ago:
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.
/s
- Comment on UK Police arrests criminal trying to escape 2 months ago:
I know, right? Those domestic terrorists were shooting video!
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 2 months ago:
What country are you in?
- Comment on How worried should we be about hantavirus right now? 2 months ago:
This all sounds like the very beginning of a Planet of the Apes movie.
- Comment on Amazon stopped supporting your Kindle, now what? 2 months ago:
I jail broke mine and I still sometimes buy books from Amazon. It’s a gen 10 device so it will be unsupported in the NEXT round. I wish I had thought to keep it offline back when I bought it because it is sluggish as hell and I really liked it when I bought it years ago. Recently, I thought it died when it stopped responding so I bought a Kobo and I’ve been pretty happy with it. I hate all the rubbish DRM crap.
I do have actual books I like to read, but I need a light which keeps my wife up at night so the backlight turned way down works better.
- Comment on Amazon stopped supporting your Kindle, now what? 2 months ago:
Alcoholics Anonymous has books now?
- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 3 months ago:
We had trust?
- Comment on So I was doing this chick one time, right… 4 months ago:
Tamara?
- Comment on I'm new around here, and learning about all the different instances and the culture/history behind them has been fun but overwhelming. Is there somewhere I could go for a crash-course? 4 months ago:
TL;DR I don’t know how any of this shit works.
So when I left Reddit I wanted a similar experience, you know just the basic part, getting news from different viewpoints, cat videos, jokes, commentary TIL, ask Reddit, everything. I looked up online alternatives to Reddit and wherever I was had Lemmy as the top one. So I went there and when I was asked, I of course had no clue how to answer, so I picked .world because why would I want LESS than the whole world. I mean I didn’t see an option for .universe. Later, I was criticized for picking a shitty one by some random guy. So I went in the pullout on the side and couldn’t see any way to even change it.
I almost never post because when I was on Reddit and tried to post it was almost always taken down for some reason. Once I tried to post on Lemmy. I put it in asklemmy. It was a question about Linux and I was getting some really great feedback. I was delighted and sure enough my post was deleted and I didn’t even understand the reason. I think it said something about me not belonging to the instance. So I’m thinking why did it let me post in the first place and why did it let them answer and if it’s technically possible to do it in the first place, why disallow it? For, I guess some broken guideline? Just let it slide or maybe move it the the right place and tell me where it went.
I’m sure some of you will criticize me for not learning how it all works but man I just want to surf around and learn and be entertained and informed. I’m not looking to figure out a whole ecosystem. Some people want to take the whole car apart and others just want to get where they’re going.
- Comment on What did people think dinosaur bones were before we officially recognised dinosaurs? 4 months ago:
Yeah my nephew saw that and told me the same thing. Gotta find that video.
- Comment on What did people think dinosaur bones were before we officially recognised dinosaurs? 4 months ago:
I was under the impression the some Christians thought they were proof that giants existed, a la David and Goliath.
- Comment on Conservatives: Libz don't even know what a woman is. Also Conservatives: *constantly engage with purely synthetic creations thinking that they are women.* 4 months ago:
So these “women” are so hot he’d like to shoot them?