Well, in a situation where you are going to your primary physician and not going to a hospital then you would be responsible for the co-pay for the doctors visit and whatever the prescriptions cost after insurance, so even though it’s the start of the year and I haven’t paid anything towards the deductible, it still would be less than $50. With my plan, my co-pay is $10 and I usually have my prescriptions covered 100%. That’s why I’m saying a hospital visit would be a better comparison because that’s where you really get screwed here. I am in no way defending US healthcare, just being honest about my experiences. Now, if you didn’t have insurance, then a visit like this to the doctor and prescriptions could easily be over $150.

I’m with Ambetter, which has one of the lowest denial rates in the country, about 13% I believe.

If I went to the doctor for bronchitis, then I would pay about 15 dollars after insurance for the visit and prescriptions. Hospitalization would completely different though, and I think that’s a better comparison to make.

SSH is a network protocol for making secure connections, allowing remote access to various systems. As for why you should care, if you didn’t know what SSH was, then you probably shouldn’t care since you aren’t the target audience. It’s fringe knowledge for me too.

I don’t know if he proposed that, but the headlines have been for Blue Cross Blue Shield not covering anesthesia over a certain time, not United Healthcare. Both shit companies though, fuck em.

I watched a solid chunk of the anime, downloading fan translations on IRC back in the day. I thought it was interesting, but at that point I had already experienced the “this is never going to end, is it?” type of anime with Naruto and Dragon Ball, so I gave up. Which is kind of funny since those runs actually did end, and One Piece soldiers on. No way I’d try and pick something like that up now.