None, they’re not getting paid. I was talking to a ultra MAGA who is going to have to file bankruptcy because of cancer treatments for his wife. Heartbreaking conversation, he has a $20,000 annual deductible with garbage insurance coverage. Brain cancer treatments at Cedar Sinai. $20,000 deductible when you make $28 a hr
the ACA compliant plan is seriously barebones. did you read that Hawley (the fist pumping coward) and Elizabeth warren are cowriting a bill to force insurance companies to spinoff their PBM’s?
$20K deductible!!! Close to 40% of his annual salary??!! What's the point of having insurance when you have to fork over that much money yourself? LOL It's unbelievable! Has this person heard of medical tourism? He should try to have the surgery in other countries who have doctors who are just as trained as in the USA but can perform the same surgery for a fraction of the cost. My parents have been going to overseas for just teeth cleaning for years. The result is EXACTLY the same and yet because of the cost and the exchange rate, the cost is 1/5 of the cost in North America.
Along with a huge list of disclaimers of side-effects scrolling off the screen and spoken at 10X of the speed of normal voice at the end, I imagine. LOL
I saw that, do think they will have any success? Final paragraph from Mark Cuban’s interview with Penn. Mark Cuban Explains His Battle Against Pharmacy Benefit Managers Report from His Penn Fireside Chat with Ezekiel Emanuel about Drug Pricing December 4, 2024 “Rich as Hell” “If you look at the history of the supply chain,” Cuban continued, “there are people who have come up with really good ideas that have had an impact, but then somebody comes in to buy them up and kill them. Well, you know what? I don’t need any more money. I’m rich as hell. So, I don’t need to do this for more money. My joy comes from screwing the PBMs. Every one of these sales that we close [directly with the drug] manufacturers is like a great day with the sun shining brightly for me.” https://ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/rese...his-battle-against-pharmacy-benefit-managers/
for the gun men here: NEW YORK TIMES When a Glock Isn’t a Glock: The History of the Pistol Found With Luigi Mangione Part of the gun that the police believe was used to kill the C.E.O. of UnitedHealthcare was made by a 3D printer using a popular design found online. Listen to this article · 6:12 min Learn more The scene outside the New York hotel where Brian Thompson was shot and killed on Dec. 4. The police believe a gun made partly by a 3D printer was used.Credit...Karsten Moran for The New York Times By Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Aric Toler Dec. 12, 2024Updated 5:02 p.m. ET At first glance, the gun in the police photographs — the one the authorities believe Luigi Mangione used to kill the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare — appears to be a Glock-19, a 9-millimeter semiautomatic pistol used by military forces, police officers, civilians and criminals all over the world. But upon closer inspection, it is clear that the weapon was not factory-made, but was at least partially produced by a 3D printer. The giveaways are subtle: The Glock logo is absent from the pistol’s grip, where it would ordinarily be imprinted, and the angle of the grip is peculiar. Indentations on the grip, known as stippling, are patterned in such a way that the gun’s “fingerprint” can be directly linked to a unique free-to-download 3D-printed design known as the FMDA 19.2 Chairmanwon Remix. A gun designer who contributed to the pistol’s design and asked to be identified only by his online pseudonym, Chairmanwon, because he does not want to be linked to the case, said he was shocked when he saw photographs of the pistol, which circulated worldwide on social media last weekend. Chairmanwon acknowledged in a post on X that the pistol was his design, but later deleted the post. according to the Department of Justice. Manage your preferences.[/paste:font] Thank you for signing up for Opinion Today. Manage your preferences. Catch up on the biggest news, and wind down to end your day. If the gun based on the Chairmanwon design was indeed the one used to kill the executive, Brian Thompson, outside a Manhattan hotel on Dec. 4, it would cast an uneasy spotlight on 3D-printed firearms, as the first known use of such a gun in a high-profile killing. “It’s already reoriented things,” said Cody Wilson, the founder and director of the gun rights group Defense Distributed. The relatively small community that is focused on 3D-printed firearms is populated by Second Amendment and tech enthusiasts, many of whom are designers or engineers in their day jobs. Mr. Wilson noted that the killing was being “celebrated” by some people in 3D-printed gun circles. Mr. Mangione’s note to officials are being used in advertising for the Gatalog, a group that publishes designs for 3D-printed guns and accessories online, including a predecessor design to that of the gun the police found with Mr. Mangione. In the ad, blocky text from Mr. Mangione’s note is overlaid on his mug shot: “TheGatalog.com. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience.” Mr. Wilson has filed a lawsuit against the Gatalog, accusing the group of laundering money and stealing business from Defense Distributed. With “3D guns, you’re always a victim of your success,” said Mr. Wilson, a divisive pioneer in the field who faced charges in 2018 for sexually assaulting a minor. In general, 3D-printed firearms fall largely into three categories. There are fully 3D-printed guns, like the Liberator pistol, an early design released in 2013 that was quickly attacked by the State Department for export violations; these are made of plastic and use few metal parts. The second category, known as hybrid designs, are made of 3D-printed components as well as off-the-shelf parts that are not otherwise related to firearms. The third category — which includes the Chairmanwon Remix — are commonly called kit guns. For kit guns, “you’re printing the frame of a Glock or the lower receiver of an AR-15, and everything else is, you know, normally commercially available firearms components,” Charimanwon said. The pistol recovered from Mr. Mangione was not made up entirely of 3D-printed parts; it had metal components as well. Those include the slide — the top portion of the gun — and the barrel, which appeared in the photos to be threaded, allowing a suppressor or silencer to be attached. The pistol’s magazine, which can often carry more than 10 cartridges and retails for around $25, appeared to have been store-bought. suspect was an Ivy League master’s graduate with a tech background. The only difference between his Remix design and earlier versions, Chairmanwon said, was that he had figured out how to get a 3D printer to put stippling onto the pistol’s handgrip. The rest of the design is known as the FMDA DD 19.2, which was first released in 2021 and took its name from the designer’s username, FreeMen DontAsk. Stippling is often put on 3D-printed gun grips afterward using a soldering iron or laser. Homemade 3D-printed Glock frames were unreliable until online retailers began selling metal rails that could be inserted to the printed frame so that the firearm’s slide could cycle when fired. With the rails installed, such a gun can typically stand up to the firing of a few hundred rounds or more before stresses start to show in the frame, depending on how fast the weapon is fired. “Three-D-printed weapons can be fabricated and assembled by individuals with little or no technical expertise,” said Matt Schroeder, a senior researcher for the Small Arms Survey. “Three-D-printed weapons have not yet supplanted factory-built weapons in criminal circles, but if and when they do, we will have to completely rethink our approach to small arms control.” Jeremy White contributed reporting. Graphic by Phil Robibero.
With regard to insurance company policies & tactics, there are always two sides to a coin. The roadblocks were mostly well intentions in the beginning: To prevent abuse (especially narcotics) to minimize costs (generic vs brand), sometimes to catch prescriber's mistakes. But all good intentions often leads to unintended consequences, often are abused. Irresponsible company management discovered they could boost profits using it. We need to change some mindsets, swing the pendulum back. It is not an impossible task. For those with tough to treat diseases, like end stage cancer, there is no arguing, the US is the best place to seek treatment. We give them the best chance of living longer because of excellent physicians, facilities and resources.
for every doctor giving cares there’s like 10 administrative people, 4 of which are at the insurance company.
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