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Well, fortunately for you, both of those have been taken care of! COVID has supplied hospitals with more patients than they can handle, and CMS has mandated a transparency in price estimates for 2021: LINK

So, what actual data do you have then?

Damn @Angie is there a TLDR version. ;):jimlad:
 
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Damn @Angie is there a TLDR version. ;):jimlad:

short version is just that he has no idea what he is talking about! Then acts like he scored some stupid point that nobody was arguing as a result when he is continually shown his ass.
 
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short version is just that he has no idea what he is talking about! Then acts like he scored some stupid point that nobody was arguing as a result when he is continually shown his ass.

Well I was referring to the link you posted that thing had paragraphs and paragraphs of lawyer talk it made my head hurt ;) .
 
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Well I was referring to the link you posted that thing had paragraphs and paragraphs of lawyer talk it made my head hurt ;) .

Oh! Short version is just that there is a mandate to make it so that you can easily get an estimate for services rendered at a hospital. The idea is transparency in cost so that people can price-shop.

The obvious problem with it, however, is that so many hospital admissions are emergent or urgent. Usually you were not able to really price shop in those situations.
 
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Oh! Short version is just that there is a mandate to make it so that you can easily get an estimate for services rendered at a hospital. The idea is transparency in cost so that people can price-shop.

The obvious problem with it, however, is that so many hospital admissions are emergent or urgent. Usually you were not able to really price shop in those situations.
Having a heart attack, who’s cheapest app!
 
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Didn't know where to put this but the South Park Pandemic special is great.

Goes after everyone like usual.

First thing I heard when I turned it on was Randy Marsh: 'Well, we are now out of weed'.

I needed that.

Watching it now. Hilarious how they "figured" out how the virus was contracted.
 
So, much going on in the news today?

:jimlad:

In all seriousness, this timeline of the super spreader event, possible diagnosis, events and activities after diagnosis, and the rest looks horrible. I truly wish all the best to all of those exposed, especially those that didn’t have a choice (secret service, police, etc).
 
First time I’ve had to look to see where I’m at in the succession chain.
 
Watching the NFL and the Covid news got me thinking maybe we really don't know the virus as well as we think we do. It's understandable since we've only known about the virus for 8-9 months. The Titans situation is what got me thinking.

The day after the Titans played the Vikings a few players and personnel tested positive. So they were probably contagious on game day and yet with violent collisions and certainly exchanging sweat, breath and mucous no Vikings have tested positive since then and were able to play yesterday. During that same period more Titans players and personnel have test positive. I kinda expected some positives from the Vikings.

And now the Chiefs-Patriots situation. Doesn't it seem a little weird that only 1 player from each team is missing tonight's game. It gets even weirder, the Chiefs player was the practice squad player imitating Cam Newton who is the Patriots players. It is the month of Halloween after all.

I'm not making any comments about the severity of the virus I'm just saying maybe we don't know everything about the virus yet. There are a great number of studies ongoing that should help us understand it more in the future.
 
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Watching the NFL and the Covid news got me thinking maybe we really don't know the virus as well as we think we do. It's understandable since we've only known about the virus for 8-9 months. The Titans situation is what got me thinking.

The day after the Titans played the Vikings a few players and personnel tested positive. So they were probably contagious on game day and yet with violent collisions and certainly exchanging sweat, breath and mucous no Vikings have tested positive since then and were able to play yesterday. During that same period more Titans players and personnel have test positive. I kinda expected some positives from the Vikings.

And now the Chiefs-Patriots situation. Doesn't it seem a little weird that only 1 player from each team is missing tonight's game. It gets even weirder, the Chiefs player was the practice squad player imitating Cam Newton who is the Patriots players. It is the month of Halloween after all.

I'm not making any comments about the severity of the virus I'm just saying maybe we don't know everything about the virus yet. There are a great number of studies ongoing that should help us understand it more in the future.

I kind of question how honest some if these teams are regarding their test results.
 
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Watching the NFL and the Covid news got me thinking maybe we really don't know the virus as well as we think we do. It's understandable since we've only known about the virus for 8-9 months. The Titans situation is what got me thinking.

The day after the Titans played the Vikings a few players and personnel tested positive. So they were probably contagious on game day and yet with violent collisions and certainly exchanging sweat, breath and mucous no Vikings have tested positive since then and were able to play yesterday. During that same period more Titans players and personnel have test positive. I kinda expected some positives from the Vikings.

And now the Chiefs-Patriots situation. Doesn't it seem a little weird that only 1 player from each team is missing tonight's game. It gets even weirder, the Chiefs player was the practice squad player imitating Cam Newton who is the Patriots players. It is the month of Halloween after all.

I'm not making any comments about the severity of the virus I'm just saying maybe we don't know everything about the virus yet. There are a great number of studies ongoing that should help us understand it more in the future.

It's interesting how it spreads easily at times, then other times not or not by test results anyway.

When I couldn't get a test in March without severe symptoms, I let my bosses know, and as soon as I had a positive antibody result I let close coworkers know, and to my knowledge none had positive AB results or had any other complications during the time I would have been infected. Some I share spaces with so you'd think it would have been a shoe-in for at least a mild infection.
 
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