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spaghettiwestern , (edited ) to news in “I Don’t Want to Die”: Needing Mental Health Care, He Got Trapped in His Insurer’s Ghost Network

Health Net is one of Centene’s companies and they pull this crap and worse every single day.

Health Net’s provider lists includes a huge number of ghost providers. In my case even the ones that were real were the wrong kind of specialists. Heath Net insisted I go to these providers despite the fact they couldn’t help me and refused to see me.

I ended up having to regularly make a 220 mile trip to get the healthcare I needed.

It gets worse. Health Net regularly refused payment for services that were covered under their policy. I easily spent 10 hours a week on the phone trying to get legitimate claims paid by this horrible company. The first 45 minutes of the calls were spent trying to get past their first line “customer service” people to someone who could actually deal with the problem. Health Net repeatedly refused coverage on DME that they had previously paid for and said the previous approvals were a mistake. They weren’t.

Health Net even refused payment for a visit to specialist after they had provided pre-approval for the visit in writing. It took seven months and probably 20 hours on the phone before the crooks paid the bill.

Centene and their subsidiaries should be shut down and their executives should be in prison.

spaghettiwestern , (edited ) to mildlyinfuriating in Reddit Undeleted all my posts and comments

I just checked and Reddit did the same with my account. I spent hours editing and ultimately deleting my posts and comments, and the Spez Gestapo just undeleted years worth of content. I’m going to go through them again and this time I’ll leave the gibberish.

spaghettiwestern , to linux in Microsoft’s latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs

Not the first time. I thought a Windows 10 update wiped grub, but Microsoft actually deleted my entire Linux partition. Others have experienced the same thing.

Windows is required for a couple of apps I need with no alternatives, but the only way it runs on any of my computers is in a VM.

spaghettiwestern , to technology in Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.

I have mine behind a Pihole too. It blocked all the ads at first but Roku seems to actively varying the ad servers and they’ve started showing up again. I haven’t had a chance to see if I can block them again.

spaghettiwestern , to linux in 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $50

Could be a bad board. I have a Pi 3B+ that intermittently crashes and shows insufficient voltage no matter what power supply is used.

spaghettiwestern , to technology in Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.

Roku is chocked full of ads too, and regularly sets the default for the “Select” button to open those ad sites or apps. Roku used to be great. It has now been completely enshittified.

spaghettiwestern , to news in Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads

Susceptible to intrusive ads and viruses.

My Windows computer was infected more than once by virus spreading ads on legitimate websites. The site owners denied any responsibility for the viruses saying it was the fault and responsibility of the ad companies. Never again.

spaghettiwestern , to technology in SanDisk introduces the first 8TB SD and 4TB microSD cards - Liliputing

I have a convertible laptop with a MicroSD slot. A 4TB card would be great for backups.

spaghettiwestern , to news in The FTC is coming after high grocery prices

Likewise Trader Joe’s prices have shot up tremendously, like 50% on many items in less than a year. This while Aldi’s prices have not risen nearly as much. Meanwhile corporations are celebrating the highest profits in more than 70 years while simultaneously working overtime to convince us those runaway profits have nothing to do with inflation.

spaghettiwestern , (edited ) to news in The lagged effects of COVID-19 supply chain disruptions on inflation

So we’re supposed to believe that the highest corporate profits in more than 70 years are not a primary driver of inflation? I don’t buy it and neither do all economists.

It is unlikely that either the extent of corporate greed or even the power of corporations generally has increased during the past two years. Instead, the already-excessive power of corporations has been channeled into raising prices rather than the more traditional form it has taken in recent decades: suppressing wages.

Corporations have such excessive power that they can even push the narrative that their historic profits don’t have anything to do with inflation. Some people actually believe the propaganda.

spaghettiwestern , (edited ) to news in The lagged effects of COVID-19 supply chain disruptions on inflation

It’s obvious that my point is Brookings is deliberately ignoring the elephant in in the room. They are turning a blind eye to extreme corporate price gouging and record profits, in fact Brookings didn’t mention those things at all.

Thinking and critical analysis requires awareness of what is deliberately being omitted by a media source as well as what is being said. It has nothing to do with “somehow reading” the article wrong.

spaghettiwestern , (edited ) to news in The lagged effects of COVID-19 supply chain disruptions on inflation

Right. The highest corporate profits in more than 70 years have nothing to do with it.

spaghettiwestern , to news in Trump proposed bombing Mexico and it somehow wasn’t a big story

I’m worried it would cause permanent tension between two friends.

Significant tension with our Mexican neighbors is exactly what Trump, Desantis and other weirdo’s rhetoric is causing. They’re just trying gin up more hatred from their bizarre, poorly educated, toxic supporters and they don’t get a fuck about anyone else.

Each time some GOP idiot talks about invading or bombing Mexico the news spreads like wildfire in Mexico while American news media ignores it almost completely. I repeatedly hear about bullshit the GOP freaks are spouting from my Mexican friends instead of reading about it in our own mainstream media.

spaghettiwestern , to news in Trump proposed bombing Mexico and it somehow wasn’t a big story

How sad is it that I learned about Trump’s plan to bomb Mexico not from American news media, but from alarmed Mexican friends.

spaghettiwestern , to news in Joe Biden ends re-election campaign

Biden definitely learned something from watching the Republicans screw Obama again and again.

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