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6 hours agoDo you do your best work when your work load has doubled and you can’t hire any help. ?
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0·17 hours agoOkay but what about pillory?. No one is considering the pillory.
I kinda think some extended suffering is in order. Don’t you ?
0·17 hours agoNothing lasts forever.
My point was it’s getting worse and it’s not the post office admin at fault but budget cuts.
0·18 hours agoMaybe, maybe not.
Some places are as expensive or more.
These Mexico cancer centers charge way more.
Switzerland also has expensive medical. Almost same as U.S.
Most other countries cheaper but it’s hard to know if there is fraud. People go get cosmetic surgery and send in a bill for a deviated septum but it was a cosmetic nose job.
Generally only accidental or emergency care is covered for foreign countries where it’s not easy to get to the u.s.
For example you get injured or have a heart attack in Mexico near U.S border, you better go to the U.S hospital if it’s closer or it won’t be covered.
There was exceptions made for expats living abroad.
There was one company that had like 8 families that it insured. All lived in different foreign countries.
I think they were maybe doctors.
The company was a charity that’s well known but I don’t want to say who. They were very good to their employees though. They paid some crazy gold platinum plan for these people. We covered everything for them and their family and even reimbursed them in their currency. Had like a $200 deductible and no copays or something crazy like that.
Best plans I’ve ever seen.
0·1 day agoAh yeah that’s a better term for OPs example.
Yes but Trump has also made big cuts
So I worked for a big health insurance company for 11 years. Of which 4 of those I worked in international claims.
We would get these claims from Mexico sometimes for people with terminal cancer.The companies were U.S companies, some canadian. But clinics were in Mexico.
Ever see those commercials for “cancer treatment centers of America” where they promise new innovative and experimental treatments?
They used to run commercials all the time. Well all the facilities are all located in Mexico.
(Now it’s been about 6 years since I last worked there and maybe these companies don’t exist anymore. I hope not).
Anywho. We would get these medical claims in for literally a few million dollars.
For vitamin B shots. Water exercises. Massages.
Nothing innovative. No actual cancer treatments.
Just pain killers and vitamin B shots.
People would stay there for a month or two then die. But that’s only part of the horror.
The cancer centers would not release the bodies of the person until the debt was paid.
Yeah they would hold them for ransom.
That’s why desperate people would try to get the u.s health insurance company to pay some of it. But we wouldn’t. Because 1. It’s considered medical tourism. And 2. It’s not considered legitimate health care.
We felt bad for the families whenever one of these claims came through. They would often submit it multiple times trying to get it paid. With letters begging us. Which is how we learned that these companies won’t release the body of the deceased until they were paid.
They have been sued many times but still going strong.
There are lots of them not just the one I mentioned.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1878788/ Questionable cancer practices in Tijuana and other Mexican border clinics
Trump has been gutting funding for the USPS since his first term.
0·2 days agoBlacks vote by mail a lot.
Right. He’s technically not supposed to be able to start a war either. But here we are
0·2 days agoI’m too dumb to play that game. I tried and kept dying during dialogue.
I didn’t know you could die in a game from saying the wrong thing. But I did multiple times. A few hours in. I was playing on switch and it made me restart from beginning.
So I gave up and just watched a YouTube on the story.
Idk I’ve never played a game like that and I’m not sure how the mechanics work. Obviously too dense to figure it out.
Very cool art style and world building though.
0·2 days agoRight!? MRI machines need them way more.
0·2 days agoI’ll tell you something embarrassing about a guy I dated instead.
This was some time ago and I only dated him for like 2 months.
I can’t recall exactly what happened but I think he clogged my toilet and I used the plunger and qtips came up and I was like.
“Why did you flush qtips. ?”
And then it came out that he uses q tips to clean his butt after a dump.
Yes you heard me.
Q tips.
And he said something about his mom saying it was okay to flush them.
Which I then realized his mom taught him to clean his butt hole with qtips.
And …this had me thinking all sorts of weird things about their relationship.
He was definitely a momma’s boy. But maybe a little extreme.
For instance his mother managed his bank account. Made sure his truck payment was made every month. (We were both in our mid 20s). He still lived with his parents but he was finishing up electrician school.That seemed okay since he was in school. 🤷
And so this guy , btw, was like 6ft 5. He was huge in height. (I’m 5ft 3).
His mom was my size and he would like sit in her lap on the sofa. Like he would sit in front of her on the floor and cuddle him. You know. I thought that was weird. But every family has weird quirks. Plus men who have good relationships with their moms are less likely to be misogynist. Right?
He did introduce me to some great books like Raw Shark Text and Blindsight (two of my top favorite books) And that almost made it worth dating him.
He was just a weirdo. And when I broke up with him he asked me to marry him. (2 months of dating).
Just…no.
There is a word for when movements become basically fashion trends or goods/services to be sold.
“commodification”
Is it cool to wear a Che Guevara tshirt?
A tshirt with RBG?
What about wearing a keffiyeh?
Commodification is the process of transforming inalienable, free, or gifted things (objects, services, ideas, nature, personal information, people, or animals) into commodities, or objects for sale.[1][2][3][4][5] It has a connotation of losing an inherent quality or social relationship when something is integrated by a capitalist marketplace.[5][6] Concepts that have been argued as being commodified include broad items such as the body,[7] intimacy,[8] public goods,[9] animals[10] and holidays.[11]
This is also something that happens often with alternative counter culture. Weakening it’s power.
Goth and punk clothing is sold at high end fashion stores and the original sub culture and ideas that these groups promoted has largely been lost. (Punk to emo pipeline)
Though legit old school punk artist still push their ideas often and haven’t “sold out” for commercial success.
They keep it real. But corps still try to capitalize on their appeal and degrade it’s message by making it a trend.
Only win was the constitutionally illegal Save Act didn’t get passed.
Okay thank you for tracking that down. So it was a Christian university where they got their clinical degree.
That tracks.
It’s not apa accredited. It’s “accredited” by cacrep.
Cacrep mostly does accreditation for counseling programs.
Apa for PhD and PsyD.
It’s unclear what their requirements are other than “meets state guidelines”.
But it appears to be a standard accreditation in the U.S.
https://denverseminary.edu/program/master-of-arts-in-counseling-licensure/clinical-mental-health/
“Accredited” by
Nah just greedy men
I agree that the conditions that allowed this to happen are still present and won’t magically disappear once he dies. But I do think his absence is necessary for any recovery to occur.
But his death won’t fix the greater problem of fascism, dictatorship or tyranny.
I think that’s fair.