Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com
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Here's a particularly egregious form of upcoding: back in 2020, the Poudre Valley Hospital in Ft Collins, CO locked all its doors except the ER entrance. Every patient entering the hospital, including those receiving absolutely routine care, was therefore processed as an "emergency."
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At the core of Epic's value proposition is "upcoding," a form of billing fraud that is beloved of hospital administrators, including the "nonprofit" hospitals that generate vast fortunes that are somehow not characterized as profits.
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@mhoye EVs have bigger batteries than home solar. Try to configure so that you can feed your system from your EV in case of long term grid failure.
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Vance did a pretty good job sounding reasonable and moderate, and the next debate should be between him and Donald Trump.
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Oh shut the fuck up. Citizens are not competing with recent immigrants for scarce homes. They're competing with Wall St
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Trump is brazen and clumsy in his lies, and it doesn't matter. Vance is glib and acrobatic in his lies, and it doesn't matter. It's all normalized now.
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WWIII because the thirst for genocide is insatiable. Sounds about right.
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“The recruitment of Leonard Leo would cement ties between Opus Dei and the U.S. Supreme Court that had been developing for decades.” https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/opus-dei-leonard-leo-supreme-court-moneybags-kid-1235115538/
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@lauren Ya know, if you could credibly show them a plan on how to run it at a profit I'm pretty sure there would be some big bucks in there for you. 👍 🏦
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OK, so why did two - yes two - US Naval vessels launch "interceptors" against the Iranian missiles?
Why is the US participating and potentially dragging us (the US) into a war with Iran?
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/10/01/world/israel-lebanon-hezbollah
@oclsc @SteveBellovin @lauren Exactly, me too.
@AxiosNews @axios-local-dallas-AxiosNews working as intended
@lauren @SteveBellovin Apparenly you have not waited in line at a Costco gas station.
@SteveBellovin @lauren If you can charge at home, the time savings are surprising ... no more trips to the gas stations, no more waiting in line. I have an EV and didn't expect that bonus. In California, no more smog checks, no stealable catalytic converters, no oil changes also add up. The terror of annual registration vanishes.
@SteveBellovin @lauren The time to fill a gasoline vehicle with 250 mi of gas is of the order of 10-15 min. Along with time spent to get to the gas station and waiting in line get you to about 1/2 hour to get fuel for a decent range. Any combination of technologies that would get that to an EV owner who doesn't have a home charger would make the difference. 1/2
@arstechnica $16M is not even round-off error.
@mattblaze Not until we declare a WAR ON CYBERSECURTY. That will do it for sure.
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Donald Trump Lost Wisconsin by 20K Votes. Counties He Won Have Fewer Voters https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-wisconsin-visit-2024-election-comparison-2020-1962051?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
@realTuckFrumper Working as intended
