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second this. if you stay out of leadership I think it's a lot easier to have a healthy relationship with work. you set your boundaries and stick to them. highly improbable anyone w…

I quit a high pay/low cost of living job to move to a high pay high cost of living job when I was young. The skills, connections, experience I got were great but eventually it was …

It doesn't really matter how you do it as much as how you talk about it. Like most aspects of a healthy relationship, communication is key. State law is really important if the rel…

I spent a week touring Rome and didn't see a single public bathroom. Every society makes its choices and some of those seem weird when you look on the other side of the fence. The …

beautiful. congratulations on this, it's really wonderful.

That's a point of view that would change quickly if you were in one of those management positions. You get to a point where it's impossible to do the work anymore. There's too much…

Nuanced but important distinction: these are ICD-10 diagnosis codes. They are only loosely related to what is billed and would not show up in the pricing data referenced by the OP.…

There are resources such as https://collegecost.ed.gov/net-price to help with the information. College prices are about as real as hospital prices. Sure, some outliers literally pa…

You have to look at net price not sticker price. faulty analysis. better data here https://usafacts.org/articles/college-tuition-has-increased-...

Let's hope the single payer isn't Medicare then, because you would have a lot fewer hospitals. Here's the money quote straight from the horse's mouth "In 2021, Medicare’s payments …

Yes. Unemployment below natural level and inflation still high single digits. They will raise rates. They have no choice. It's literally their dual mandate to do it.

Let's hope not, that would be a disaster. Inflation is far more pernicious than regional bank instability. The fed is acting appropriately in response to a spendthrift Congress, an…

citations needed. China and other manufacturing behemoths are producing dramatically more than they were before the pandemic and we are importing and buying all of those foreign go…

Don’t doxx yourself but can you link to an example, public case? One you weren’t involved in maybe?

I would point to a few key reasons for the complexity. 1) Value based care - It used to be simpler with a model called fee for service. Get paid for what you provide. Insurers, Med…

Agreed. Insurance, Medicare in particular, is the root of these issues, from my biased insider's perspective. Doctors don't want to deal with insurance any more than consumers do..…

Well in the u.s. the decision about severity has to be supported by medical documentation from a licensed provider. That medical documentation has to be converted to billing codes …

Sure, that makes sense. We should also acknowledge that it costs money to deliver and we live in a resource constrained world.

I wouldn't say a surgery could be considered routine until it's complete. That's hindsight bias. Most hospitals can provide an estimate for these types of surgeries now, it's built…

I can't imagine the stress of having a loved one, especially a child, in a life threatening state. Adding byzantine medical documentation, coding, billing, and collections on top i…

Israel, where NSO group is headquartered, surely.

Paid a hell of a premium for the pleasure

Must be fairly recent then...cause 10 years ago it was poor quality care by untrained staff. https://www.mhtf.org/2017/06/23/quality-of-routine-labor-and...

No, the question was what in crypto isn't a scam. Whitelisted counterparties borrowing and lending to each other without having to trust a third party to intermediate, such as fedw…