The BG Health Care Thread: Decreasing the Surplus Population

[Cyn]

Found Archi out in the wild:

[Zealot]

Oh hey I know her.

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[Milkster]

https://x.com/dexerto/status/2009308...9Wps1Hl11Rk-Sw

Archi is getting his wish! Replacing health care professionals with AI

[Guitarman]

As someone who works in cybersecurity, for the love of fuck don't connect your health records. Good lord people.

[kuronosan]

As someone who works in health care definitely don't do that shit

[Meresgi]

As someone who works in cybersecurity, for the love of fuck don't connect your health records. Good lord people.

NOTHING CAN GO WRONG

[Cantih]

Complained of wrist pain : performed orchiectomy.

[archibaldcrane]

God damnit

https://x.com/i/status/2021362479645732988

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[archibaldcrane]

God damnit

https://x.com/i/status/2021362479645732988

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Obvious downstream effect
https://x.com/i/status/2021950503048065390

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[Zealot]

Goddammit I want that herpes vaccine, it's the one I'm most afraid of.

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[Byrthnoth]

Epstein-Barr vaccine would be amazing. It's associated with all kinds of terrible shit.

Oh well, at least we're being inhumane to hardworking immigrants.

MAGA Anthem: https://youtu.be/EgBJmlPo8Xw

[archibaldcrane]

To make it crystal clear

https://x.com/i/status/2021608595742183457

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[synistar]

God damnit

https://x.com/i/status/2021362479645732988

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Decision reversed after the application was amended - https://www.npr.org/2026/02/18/nx-s1...-mrna-flu-shot

[Milkster]

https://x.com/atrupar/status/2026780...9Wps1Hl11Rk-Sw

The culling begins.

[kuronosan]

This is fucking stupid. CMS already requires we do an in person evaluation for DME and even just general recommendations. This just unnecessarily delays care.

[6souls]

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/...-dunkin-sugar/

RFKJr is targeting Dunkin Donuts demanding to know if their Iced Coffee is safe to consume.

[Tyrath]

War with New England then

[Tyche]

This is fucking stupid. CMS already requires we do an in person evaluation for DME and even just general recommendations. This just unnecessarily delays care.

I'm split. I also hate unnecessary orthotics getting pushed at 10x markups.

I also had out SLP suggest an AAC tablet for my autistic kid, which is completely appropriate. But the device was an iPad mini with a hard case and a $250 AAC app (proloquo2go). Cost? $4,000. I initially told them no, I would just purchase it out of pocket. But after we sent everything to insurance, insurance covered everything except for $200, which was cheaper than me paying for it out of pocket. So I'll let my insurance company pay four grand for about $500 worth of shit. There is definitely some system gaming going on here, but I have United healthcare so fuck em. I swear, as soon as you say that something is for autism it automatically gets the "Wedding markup"

[Byrthnoth]

It's just an accounting racket, no? Health Insurance providers have their profits capped at ~15% of revenue by the ACA, so they shift money to sister businesses through stupid self-charges. To go through the steps:
* Someone bought an iPad and license for some software (estimated cost $500)
* That person billed (probably a chain of people), who eventually marked it up and billed your insurance provider $4000.
* Your insurance company billed you $200.

So your insurance company is out $3800 on paper, but if the insurance company is part of a larger corporation / holding company that owns the whole chain, the full chain is out only $300 and they have managed to redistribute $3800 of revenue from the insurance company to their other corporations that aren't profit-capped.

[kuronosan]

It's just an accounting racket, no? Health Insurance providers have their profits capped at ~15% of revenue by the ACA, so they shift money to sister businesses through stupid self-charges. To go through the steps:
* Someone bought an iPad and license for some software (estimated cost $500)
* That person billed (probably a chain of people), who eventually marked it up and billed your insurance provider $4000.
* Your insurance company billed you $200.

So your insurance company is out $3800 on paper, but if the insurance company is part of a larger corporation / holding company that owns the whole chain, the full chain is out only $300 and they have managed to redistribute $3800 of revenue from the insurance company to their other corporations that aren't profit-capped.

Yep