We don’t certify pieces of shit.

We just set them on fire.

Clearly she was saying that they were next to receive a gift basket for all their hard work in denying claims for profit

I put the cooler ones on the inside, warmer ones on the outside. Harder to tell. I end up only using a few strands of the annoyingly cool lights and it makes the tree look brighter without being able to see the dramatic difference in color.

The ten of us that can tell the difference might as well be screaming in to the void my similarly photosensitive friend.

My wife can’t see the difference in the colors of the lights on the Christmas tree, and bought two different brands. There’s not enough of either brand to sufficiently light the tree so I have to get creative with the cooler lights.

Drives me absolutely NUTS.

Let me rephrase your comment for you.

“We can’t go third party without election reform. Also election reform is impossible.”

You’re a very fortunate person and I hope things stay that way for you.

Please do not presume that your good fortune has granted you the wisdom to make decisions for those who have not been so blessed.

Had me in the first half not gonna lie

Cool so let’s just give up then I guess.

Notably, there was a grain shortage at the time. The first people to die were bakers who were accused of, often innocently, hoarding bread. Louis was ineffective at dealing with the shortage, and people were hungry.

And Marie was still throwing lavish parties. At least that was the common perception. It didn’t help that France had emptied it’s coffers to fight the British on American soil.

Just an opening volley

Fucking Don Bacon.

Air force general and the small handful of times I met him he was a stand up guy. Tipped well, his staff seemed to like him, the guys I work with that worked with him all seemed to like him. Genuinely no complaints about this guy before he ran for office.

Then he ran for office and like, immediately, started taking money from telecoms to kill net neutrality. And it cost shockingly little to buy his vote. He went on a tour of his district to talk about it, in the middle of the week, during work hours, exclusively in the rural areas of his district.

My friends, his district is the largest and third largest city in Nebraska, and a few outlying neighborhoods to gerrymander it. You have to really try to avoid the city when you do shit like that.

He slips a little further every year, he wasn’t sucking the party dick that hard his first term, but he can’t take it out of his mouth at this point.

And why he left again in 2029

Are we not?

I am.

They’re big adorable idiots. Kinda like land cows.

No. Not only can it not fill the gap there isn’t an intent to.

It’s just, sell off a chunk of the government so someone can make money on a service.

I am Luigi

Chicken and Brussel sprouts. Doesn’t sound fancy but it’s hot fire and I look forward to it.

Got any plans this weekend?

Calm down there cowboy not everybody can handle such sophisticated humor

Bruh don’t fucking lie. It was a 5’4" gremlin looking woman with green hair.

So here’s a fun fact about that number, that’s after appeals and refilling.

I worked at BCBS, specifically dealing with rejected claims many many years ago. Most of the rejected claims are ultimately paid, generally there’s a clerical error and once it’s fixed, it’s paid. About a third of the time it’s a chiropractor doing something fucking shady. A shocking number of rejected claims are chiropractors doing borderline illegal shit.

The remaining handful of rejected claims are for either weird shit that no one covers, such as helicopter landing fees, or stuff that would be covered up to a certain limit that they’ve exceeded. Very, very rarely did we see something that we rejected, they appealed, that went on to be reviewed by actual doctors who still found it to be unnecessary, and when it was it was because the doctor ordering it really dropped the ball on the lab work to prove it was necessary.

One time we had a patient effectively being held hostage in Mexico because they wouldn’t release him before the 23 hour mark because he was having a heart attack, but because he had no coverage out of his home state, they also wouldn’t release him until he paid for his visit. BCBS paid that claim. Admittedly the state I worked for was pretty lenient with approvals. Other states were much worse, and not dissimilar from UHC.

The fact that UHC was denying claims nationally at a rate double BCBS nationally, I’m lead to believe that they’re just rejecting everything that isn’t standard preventive care out of hand and only paying a handful of the appeals.