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HubertManne , to Politics in I Set Out to Create a Simple Map for How to Appeal Your Insurance Denial. Instead, I Found a Mind-Boggling Labyrinth.
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Not for cancer but have had to work with a few denials with my wife. Whats really scary is both the provider and the insurance company were no help. Once sorted I found the provider got a about a tenth of what was billed and so I think often times they can get more by pushing the patient. If they can get the patient to pay 20% or more half the time or more they come out ahead. Nobody has motivation to clear up the issue. As tokenboomer said. Nationalize it now!

Laneus , to U.S. News in New York Workers Are Waiting on $79 Million in Back Wages
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But of course, if an employee pocketed $20 from the register, the police will get involved immediately. funny how that works

Peaces OP , to U.S. News in They Were Promised Help With Mortgage Payments. Then They Got a Foreclosure Notice.

The NAHAC acronym stands for Nevada Affordable Housing Assistance Corporation.

NightGaunts OP , to Politics in The Biden Interview: The President Talks About the Supreme Court, Threats to Democracy and Trump’s Vow to Exact Retribution

I declined to vote Democrat for almost the entire Clinton/Obama era instead opting for 3rd party candidates. Trump was too repugnant to not vote against. I begrudgingly voted Dem, however, I have been okay with Biden overall. The Democrats have stopped ignoring blue collar folks (though not always) after being taken for granted by the Clinton/Obama wing. Maybe I am moderating in old age, and I am surprised by this, but Biden has not been a bad president.

HubertManne ,
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I had no issue with clinton and obama. I still consider obama to be the best president of my lifetime. All the same he should really be the low bar for president. I often wish we had more of a parlimentary system. I think if we had the examples of today the founding fathers would have based congress more on modern parliments.

dingus ,
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I will never label “best President of my lifetime” the guy who let war criminals walk and then legalized and codified some of the worst aspects of the War on Terror.

Why is Donald Trump walking free? Because we couldn’t/wouldn’t even begin to prosecute war criminals.

Milquetoast Obama letting war criminals walk literally set the stage for this. You don’t get to be shocked about the kid-gloves treatment for Trump after knowing “the best President of your lifetime” chose to not prosecute war criminals because it “might appear partisan” or some dumb shit. It’s literally the same dumb hand-wringing we get with Trump today. We are stuck with Trump because Obama didn’t have the fucking balls to prosecute war criminals.

Why are they scared to prosecute a former President? Because we have refused to do it again and again when it matters.

HubertManne ,
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Your are not taking into account who is competing against. Name a better president and be ready to list all their ills. Honestly the thing that is highest on my obama issues is the opposite of what you list which is his treatment of snowden.

e_t_ Admin , to Politics in The Judiciary Has Policed Itself for Decades. It Doesn’t Work.

I mean, has self-policing ever worked for anything? I've always assumed it's tantamount to corruption.

e_t_ Admin , to Politics in The EPA Has Found More Than a Dozen Contaminants in Drinking Water but Hasn’t Set Safety Limits on Them

Water is the source of all life. Seven tenths of this Earth's surface is water. Why, do you realize that 70% of you is water? And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water -- to replenish our precious bodily fluids. Are you beginning to understand?

Nommer , to Work Reform in 127,000 New York Workers Have Been Victims of Wage Theft

What about the rest of the country? I’m not in New York but I’ve had wages stolen from me. .

Didros , to Politics in Why Some Wisconsin Lawmakers and Local Officials Have Changed Their Minds About Letting Undocumented Immigrants Drive

Saved you a click: money.

ApathyTree , to Politics in Maternal Deaths Are Expected to Rise Under Abortion Bans, but the Increase May Be Hard to Measure
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It’s really gross, but not at all surprising, that we, as a country, don’t have official reporting or tracking of this shit. I mean I know this country gives less than no fucks about women or minorities, but come the fuck on, even with that horseshit piecemeal reporting we -still have- absurdly high maternal mortality stats for a developed country???

Powderhorn Mod , to U.S. News in DOT Researchers Suggested a Way to Make Big Trucks Safer. After Meeting With Lobbyists, Agency Officials Rejected the Idea.
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I love the smell of regulatory capture in the morning.

SenorBolsa , to U.S. News in DOT Researchers Suggested a Way to Make Big Trucks Safer. After Meeting With Lobbyists, Agency Officials Rejected the Idea.
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That’s shit. The ATA is garbage and only fights for the megacarriers.

As a former truck driver who has had the misfortune to be involved in TWO underride collisions I would happily spend the $3000 or so out of my own pocket just to never see what I saw again. (I won’t go into details as I do not want to relive those memories)

Obviously there’s limits on what’s practical to do, but seeing as this all worked out fine in Europe I’d call it a no brainer.

darcy , to Work Reform in "Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP Donor" - this is why the system is rigged against us.

This should be a major scandal.

seeCseas OP Mod ,

yes it should. but the rules for the aristocracy are different.

Sorenchu ,

Spot on. The “elites” and their puppets will not face consequences because they designed the system to benefit themselves. He will continue to be a corrupt parasite and make rulings that will take rights away from people not of the moneyed class.

admiralteal , to Politics in Wisconsin Picks New Legislative Maps That Would End Years of GOP Gerrymandering

I would say they ameliorated it. They definitely did not end it. The maps still likely advantageous overall to the GOP, and even if they weren't... partisan gerrymandering will ALWAYS be a part of the system there until they modify the laws around it to, at minimum, establish an independent nonpartisan commission to handle future maps.

There is no such thing as an objectively fair election map. Everything is a tradeoff. If you could truly design a flawlessly optimal map, then the technique you used to do so almost by definition replaces the need to even bother with having the election -- just use your algorithm to pick the representatives.

And no, there's no future technology that will fix this issue. When you chose one place and not another to draw a line, either way it influences results. It is a value judgement which outcome is preferable -- one the computer is simply not capable of making.

You can only try to be reasonable and fair. So long as the process is fundamentally political, it cant be. Dems might be way better than the GOP when it comes to supporting fair democracy, but the Dems also have a long history of partisan gerrymandering when they have power. And even when the gerrymandering isn't to achieve political goals, it will still do other unfair things like entrenching incumbency in a partisan system.

Press the advantage and enshrine into law an independent and nonpartisan districting organization. Even this cannot possibly fix all issues with districting, but at least it can disincentivize the worst behavior.

philo , to U.S. News in 21 Bodycam Videos Caught the NYPD Wrongly Arresting Black Kids on Halloween. Why Can’t the Public See the Footage?

TBH, what good does making guesses amount to?

mosiacmango ,

What do you mean? No one is making any guesses.

The author is following up on an instance of police abuse he personally witnessed, was gaslight about, was confirmed to have happened by 21 different pieces of video evidence, and was then swept under the rug by the NYPD.

philo ,

Are you for real? Read the title of the damn article. It’s a freaking leading question? So to as who’s making guesses or hypothesizing is kinda of silly when that is what the article is all about.

mosiacmango , (edited )

Its not at all about guesses. The civilain review board watched the footage and confirmed they hit the teenager they were chasing with their cop car, held several unrelated teens at gunpoint, and arrested those unrelated teens unjustifiably. They then recommended the harshest action possible.

The NYPD hand waived it away for 4 of 5 cops, with the 5th only receiving any action because of “swearing.”

How is officially released records about civil rights violations the reporter and his family personally witnessed “a guess?”

We know why the police won’t release the footage. It’s because it proves they act unlawfully. The authors experience, that the article explains in full, explains the “leading question.”

t3rmit3 ,

This dude is just a pro-cop troll.

YeetPics ,
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Is making guesses at what’s on the footage they won’t allow citizens to FOIA is more damning than the abuse of children by police I would be fucking SHOCKED.

Gumby , to U.S. News in Mississippi Says Poor Defendants Must Always Have a Lawyer. Few Courts Are Ready to Deliver.

I thought this was a federal law for years. Have poor people been trying to defend themselves all these years?

wheeville ,

Or pressured into taking plea deals without advice of counsel for the sake of closing cases.

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