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Fair enough. I just saw it and figured it might be useful for folks here if they need to explain it to people who aren’t as terminally online as many of us here (myself included)
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Article that explains in layman’s terms into how Taibbi’s mistakes are not minor, they’re in fact the foundation on which he built the entire premise. (Taibbi and some of his fellow travelers have been trying to downplay it as “just a few minor errors”)
(Mike Masnick writes about various legal issues in the tech industry)
Not that it isn't a good takedown of a lot of brazen lying/stupidity to try to make the Twitter Files into a thing, but I kind of feel like dwelling on it is getting sucked into the Pundit Brain vortex. The Twitter Files completely failed to make waves even among the most credulous of chuds it was aimed at except for the ones already hyper-focused on Twitter; digging deeply into why they're stupid isn't like digging into QAnon or something, it's like writing a really self-serving /r/HobbyDrama post about how the forum admin acted like an idiot on Discord.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Fair enough. I just saw it and figured it might be useful for folks here if they need to explain it to people who aren’t as terminally online as many of us here (myself included)
Yeah honestly I appreciate it, I'd never heard of "Twitter Files" before, and am glad to have read what it was about, even if it's incredibly stupid.
Union Pacific routinely hires private investigators to check out employees’ medical leave claims and then fires anyone who happens to leave their house while out on leave, according to a lawsuit filed against the railroad.
Jesus fucking Christ
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
When Vox fired all of the California SB Nation people a few years ago, we went and created a Substack after being recommended by one of the other sites. Substack was just starting out at the time, so not only did I end up working directly with their CEO, but he set us up on the backend so we could use a custom URL instead of a Substack one. They’ve been pretty good for us, even if it’s taken a long time to get even close to our prior readership.
Also, because we had the custom URL in place, we are unaffected by this new Substack Twitter ban thing.
“Hiring more people is expensive. Mistreating the employees you have costs nothing,” said Thompson, whose Wisconsin-based firm handles many complaints from railroad employees nationwide.
As the article notes, a big reason the railroads are so stingy about time off is because they cut the number of employees down to damn skeleton crews already.
Oh, and more than half of railroad workers still don't have those (four whole) paid sick days available to them.
Union Pacific routinely hires private investigators to check out employees’ medical leave claims and then fires anyone who happens to leave their house while out on leave, according to a lawsuit filed against the railroad.
Jesus fucking Christ
Insurance companies do this shit all the time, I'm extremely unsurprised
[...]The company has built a system that allows its doctors to instantly reject a claim on medical grounds without opening the patient file, leaving people with unexpected bills, according to corporate documents and interviews with former Cigna officials. Over a period of two months last year, Cigna doctors denied over 300,000 requests for payments using this method, spending an average of 1.2 seconds on each case, the documents show. [...]
Before health insurers reject claims for medical reasons, company doctors must review them, according to insurance laws and regulations in many states. Medical directors are expected to examine patient records, review coverage policies and use their expertise to decide whether to approve or deny claims, regulators said. This process helps avoid unfair denials.
But the Cigna review system that blocked van Terheyden’s claim bypasses those steps. Medical directors do not see any patient records or put their medical judgment to use, said former company employees familiar with the system. Instead, a computer does the work. A Cigna algorithm flags mismatches between diagnoses and what the company considers acceptable tests and procedures for those ailments. Company doctors then sign off on the denials in batches, according to interviews with former employees who spoke on condition of anonymity.
“We literally click and submit,” one former Cigna doctor said. “It takes all of 10 seconds to do 50 at a time.”
That Cigna story came out literally two weeks after my job switched our health insurance to Cigna.
That was a fun morning read.
My job switched to Cigna this year and it’s been terrible. They didn’t work with any of my wife’s doctors. She had to stop seeing her longtime therapist and find a new primary care doctor. They denied coverage on 3 of her prescriptions, including one she had been taking for a couple of years already. And they end rejected every one of the half dozen appeals that we’ve filed.
All insurance companies are bad, but Cigna is a special kind of terrible.
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
Health insurance companies are financially incentivized to not provide the service they are being paid for, that's their whole business model, in fact.
Unless you need specialized medication. The wife wouldn't be covered for her medication through Medicaid because it costs $110k per year. Private insurance covers it though, for reasons.
Unless you need specialized medication. The wife wouldn't be covered for her medication through Medicaid because it costs $110k per year. Private insurance covers it though, for reasons.
The industry is bullshit.
And private insurance probably actually pays like $1k per year for it at most, because fuck people who need medication.
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my mother's been recovering from a chronic illness with some shockingly expensive treatments
then my parents switched insurance to Cigna and everything was immediately denied and suddenly she needs extra tests for medication that was working super well, now she can't walk
fuck Cigna fwiw
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That's just greedy, bro
Yeah honestly I appreciate it, I'd never heard of "Twitter Files" before, and am glad to have read what it was about, even if it's incredibly stupid.
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Jesus fucking Christ
It's gotta be purely about spite
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I think it’s bad management, which is caused by shitty ownership
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Also, because we had the custom URL in place, we are unaffected by this new Substack Twitter ban thing.
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As the article notes, a big reason the railroads are so stingy about time off is because they cut the number of employees down to damn skeleton crews already.
Oh, and more than half of railroad workers still don't have those (four whole) paid sick days available to them.
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Insurance companies do this shit all the time, I'm extremely unsurprised
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That was a fun morning read.
My job switched to Cigna this year and it’s been terrible. They didn’t work with any of my wife’s doctors. She had to stop seeing her longtime therapist and find a new primary care doctor. They denied coverage on 3 of her prescriptions, including one she had been taking for a couple of years already. And they end rejected every one of the half dozen appeals that we’ve filed.
All insurance companies are bad, but Cigna is a special kind of terrible.
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Unless you need specialized medication. The wife wouldn't be covered for her medication through Medicaid because it costs $110k per year. Private insurance covers it though, for reasons.
The industry is bullshit.
And private insurance probably actually pays like $1k per year for it at most, because fuck people who need medication.
I hate this country.
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then my parents switched insurance to Cigna and everything was immediately denied and suddenly she needs extra tests for medication that was working super well, now she can't walk
fuck Cigna fwiw
Sorry, balls aren’t medically necessary so they’re not covered.
I can see why you write professionally.