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important to notice this is not the medical bills they showing, but the claim rejection, and the claim rejection is "we require additional information"

we don't know what information was on the claim, but judging but the long list of "professional services" it's indeed too vague to be itemized against their policy if that was the description provided.

or in short this piece is presenting a very biased view by withholding a lot of information required to come to an understanding.
If that is capitalism then capitalism can go get fucked in my opinion.

Honestly, we're not talking about having a wart removed here. It's basic medical treatment for a child. That should be beyond reproach in any civilised country.
> Wouldn't it be better for an article which is meant to influence US policy to be grounded in facts?

IMHO, the last few years in the USA should serve as a strong lesson in why fact-based policy is superior to fantasy politics.
> FrontPage was a nightmare.

They all were. HTML was so limited that producing it visually from a WYSIWYG editor was guaranteed to be totally wrong or exceedingly verbose.

With flex and grid I imagine creating such an editor is easier today, but I also imagine those consumers are happy to work off of templates and people who work on front and know HTML and spend most of their time building react components.
Curious what you prefer about PyCharm over emacs + LSP.

I'm a pretty poor PyCharm power-user, so wondering what I"m missing.
It ended up being $1.8k. Would have been much less if they didn’t call the fire dept (did he call 911?!) over a bike wreck. That’s the part a lot of comments are leaving out. A stretcher trip. Ambulance? Helicopter parenting.
> Want to report a bug on Windows? Photoshop? Almost any game ever? Good luck finding out if a dev ever saw your report and that it didn't just get dropped by some underpaid customer service center rep.

The current industry standard is directing such reports to official "support forums", where users try to help each other and nobody with any relevant expertise is present. After all, why would the crew of a modern and enlightened software project stoop so low as to talk with actual users, where extensive telemetry provides all the information they need?

s/, but only slightly.
Сommon Agile problems or when to rather use some common sense
Note to myself: always bring Loctite to bike trips to seal any wounds without stitches. $5 vs $20k
Better, is your insurance actually paying, without trying to weasel out of it. Also better, is not being charged almost half the median annual income for stitches.
I had a very similar accident while on vacation in Portugal in 2018 (i did go to the hospital in a rental car, however). I first went to a small local clinic. They stopped the bleeding and bandaged me for free and sent me to a larger hospital. There i got stitches. The hospital bill (which they handed me) was 50€ ($60), which my insurance paid.

Look at it this way:

$18,933 is more than Apple would charge! ;-)
I remember being c. 12 and writing webpages in FrontPage on a windows98 pc.

I have no idea how i had frontpage, but i'm sure it lead into acquiring "real skills".

There's a lot more to apps like dreamweaver, frontpage, etc. than it seems. They are bad tools, but also comes with a linear learning curve that has its advantages.
in Italy it costs to me about 300eur every month for work life to potentially have partial coverage at some point in the future if something happens.

I suspect your 3000 cost is skimping on a lot of taxes that are subsidizing the actual costs.
Oh, this is fun. Nuribus natatio nitraria pacator filum!
Freed agricultural land can and should be returned to wild. Most of farmland that was freed in EU after discontinuing unproductive farming is now forested. Sorry I don't have a link, forgot where I read about this.

Cattle raising and soy production (for animal feed) are major contributors to the continued loss of Amazon.
Just a comparison, because we were in the exact situation in Germany and this is how it went down here:

- my son broke his hand falling on the playground, we drove to the nearest hospital that handles kids (which happened to be a private-owned hospital).

- he received the necessary medical attention and his cast, based on his insurance card - we are insured in the public system, but the insurer is a private, for-profit entity

- we did not pay anything. There are co-payments, but not for children. However co-payments are like 5 EUR for a prescription or 10 EUR for a day of hospitalization.

- a year later, we received a letter asking us to detail the exact circumstances of the accident, because they want to see if they can defer the payment to another insurer. For example, if he fell from a faulty piece of equipment in the park or if somebody pushed him. On the letter I had a link on which I could fill the form in online. Did it, explaining that the equipment was in order and we were even the only ones in the park and it was simply and unfortunate accident.

- that was that

edit: alongside with our employers, we are paying ~1300 EUROs per month (2 people, child is co-insured autoamtically) for health and care insurance to the insurer. What was nice was that when my wife wasn't working, she was also automatically co-insured on my contract for free.
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If you want your business to run flawlessly you ,need follow some rules... as you can see...

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And bankrupt most hospitals. It’s very common for hospitals to lose money on Medicare patients
What would happen if computers never got any faster?
As a Spaniard (maybe even European) I'm astonished every time I see one of these news. I can't even understand it. I'm so happy I live where I live.
> if I had a choice of going to a UK hospital for free, or paying a grand to know my daughter will be perfectly cared for, assuming I had that grand, I'd rather pay.

Is the implication that UK hospitals provide lesser care than their (costly) american counterparts?
I wish dang could see your comment. Many times I've thought 'I cant downvote and that's fine, if I disagree I can say why.'

This should be site-wide. No need for bullshit numbers just discussion.

Hackers used to be the outliers, the nerds, the outcasts. We came together and became a community (not here, this was 80s).

But now it feels as co-opted as everything else. Its cool and hip to be nerdy, we now have things like brogrammers.

I once had a journalism professor insist to me that hackers were people who knew things about computers, and could get illegal unrestricted access. I tried to explain about phone phreaking and such, social engineering, black and white hats, and direct him to the Wikipedia articles. I was told I was being disruptive

Maybe I was but I gave real information instead of tv tropes.

HN is starting to feel like that. People less and less want information, they just want to feel good.
There will always be Greasemonkey & co.
"The #1 medical care quality country"? Is that the medical care quality everyone can afford? That's what matters.
Same in China, people working in internet giant like Alibaba and tencent earn 3 times the salary more than people working in HW.
That's why the US political system is broken. Companies lobby representatives for incentives and breaks and in the end you get something like this. It's dysfunctional.
I paid $2,000 last year for a hospital emergency department to superglue a cut on my son's head, it took 10 minutes. Next time, I'm going to glue it myself.
A fellow JK modder? Would you mind sharing what you made?
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Living in NY or SF only affects a small subset of Americans. Getting universal health care affects almost 100% of people living in Norway. There are good job opportunities pretty much anywhere when you're in tech, you don't nee to make SV money when you don't live in SV.

> Curious, what’s better?

Parental leaves, more vacations, less working hours per week, better life/work balance, free health and education, &c.

People who never experienced both systems can't understand the impact it has on your life, I'm not talking going in vacation in EU/US, I'm talking working/living for extended period of times. You can't escape the matrix if you don't know you're in the matrix. The US is like Disneyland or Vegas, if you can afford the top level shit you'll have a good time, some would argue even a better time than anywhere else, if you're on a budget be prepared to be treated like cattle.
>>but if I had a choice of going to a UK hospital for free, or paying a grand to know my daughter will be perfectly cared for

I just don't understand why it's a binary choice, either free care of good care. My own experience with the NHS has been stellar, the standard of care I have received(and still receive) is incredible. Everyone is very friendly and I get all my meds and treatment for free. My father has fought cancer for 9 years, during that time he had multiple operations and years of Glivec supplied to him free of charge, the only complaint he's ever had was that they would only reimburse him for 2nd class train ticket when going to the hospital for an operation, even though driving was more expensive.

But the thing is - if I or him ever wanted to(for some reason) to go private, that's still an option. Private insurance with private doctors and hospitals is also available. In US you don't really have any option other than going private.
> Isn't the US the #1 medical care quality country?

It depends which indicator you choose ... if you choose life expectancy, the #1 rank turns to #36 :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...
The second like is very cool. I love the explanations of whats going on.
"Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune the cost of which should be shared by the community."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneurin_Bevan

NB Of course, it is perfectly possible to disagree with this view, it just happens to be something I personally strongly agree with.
Agree, but I think that the US can decide for themselves. It is a democratic country where people (majority) have the power.
In absolute terms or in terms average quality of coverage for the population? Because in absolute terms, sure. In real “quality of healthcare”. Most likely not.

The fact that life expectancy in the US is lower (and decreasing too) than any other developed nation is pretty much all you should need to know.
The iPad has received several updates that have made possible for professional music producers to use it in their workflow.

Imo this is a great advancement, where, for example Android is still lagging behind.
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Tell me, how is it possible to conclude anything else?
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You're not a fan but it works for you. Hope you don't find yourself in a bad economic situation.

Also. Is it better to have the best medical care (if it's true) for some or a great system for everyone?
Why are you carrying water for Google?

I did read the article and yes it does have some good parts.
You walking on the sidewalk badly doesn't cause consequences for people also trying to walk on the sidewalk in a radius of many, potentially hundred, miles. It also makes legitimate use of ham bands a lot easier to distinguish from illegitimate use.
All the code words are Latin, which gives a bit of context for one of the famous one-word telegrams of the 19th century. After conquering the Indian province of Sindh, Charles Napier sent back "peccavi" (I have sinned).
The last time my daughter required stitches, the hospital did it for free. They didn't even ask for my name. I didn't even had to fill any paperwork (which would have been a chore since I didn't have the EU health card with me and I speak very little of the local language). Happened at French alps during last year ski season.
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Not hard to see how this could help deal with outages like AWS just had as well: “We break these barriers of cloud providers so that an application does not need to sit in one place anymore. It can sit in several [providers] at the same time. And this is great for the Kubernetes application because they’re kind of designed with this [flexibility] in mind”
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I tend to work on the basis that Thais get paid about a fifth that Americans do, and this would have cost you $200 by an American-trained doctor in a world-class hospital in Bangkok. If you’re actually poor, social security would cover it.
PyCharm, like most IntelliJ IDEs, has excellent refactoring capabilities, much better than what LSP currently offers.

E.g. extract method, extract class, advanced navigation like "data flow to here" etc

They may not work in extremely dynamic Python code (e.g. they will obviously not work past an `exec`).
"While the United States spends more on health care than any other country, we are not achieving comparable performance. We have poor health outcomes, including low life expectancy and high suicide rates, compared to our peer nations. A relatively higher chronic disease burden and incidence of obesity contribute to the problem, but the U.S. health care system is also not doing its part. Our analysis shows that the U.S. has the highest rates of avoidable mortality because of people not receiving timely, high-quality care..."

"First, greater attention should be placed on reducing health care costs. The U.S. could look to approaches taken by other industrialized nations to contain costs, including budgeting practices and using value-based pricing of new medical technologies. Approaches that aim to lower health care prices are likely to have the greatest impact, since previous research has indicated that higher prices are the primary reason why the U.S. spends more on health care than any other country..."

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...
I would be interested in living in a version of the U.S. where citizens recognize autocracy by the behavior, instead of depending on their television to inform them.
Another aspect which is absolutely need to good is the company that you take the drugs in. Once, I took LSD with a couple of "friends" of mine, which turned out to be a sort of devil-worshiping ritual to indoctrinate me into their cult. Apparently all of them had went through this process where they played a niche genre of music called "darkpsy" which is absolutely horrendous to your ears.

From my experience of the event, I can say with complete confidence that when they were drugged and this ritual was done to them, they had no will-power to break away because the potency of the drug is quite high and the power of suggestibility is through the roof. You become the group on LSD. I think to perform such a evil thing another person, you absolutely need to have lost your soul and I'm pretty sure they were hard-core devil believers at that point.

The moment I started getting the "bad vibes" I just got the out of that house and had to trip alone by myself in a strange area for the next 12 hours. I had one of the worst experiences of my life for that 12 hours where I was rampantly paranoid about what went down and couldn't trust anyone for a week. Currently seeking therapy for this now.
What makes you think that "the US the #1 medical care quality country"?

Of course, it depends from the indicators you use... Who tried, came up with this:

https://www.who.int/healthinfo/paper30.pdf (World Health Organization - Measuring Overall Health System Performance for 191 Countries)

At page 18 you will find the results. Spoiler: The US are not n.1... not even top 10.
He showed up at the hospital 'uninsured' in an emergency and the 'nonprofit' doctors marked up their fees 110%.

Let's call this what it is. It's a racket and unethical.
"A bit dated"? That's not exactly selling it...
(I kid, I kid)
> You can do your stitches yourself

You cannot. We're talking about anesthesia and stitches for a child. Even if it were legal to do these procedures without a medical licence, which it absolutely isn't, it would still be a terrible idea, even if you could get your hands on the right supplies.

> try to find a cheaper hospital

We're talking about emergency medical treatment for a child. You think there's time to search around for the best price?

> Isn't the US the #1 medical care quality country?

Absolutely not. The WHO ranks the USA as 37th out of 191 countries: (PDF) https://www.who.int/healthinfo/paper30.pdf
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why is/was dreamweaver bad, now? I got a tremendous amount of web stuff done many years ago. it all worked well and I couldn't have done it as quickly or well without it...
> The "resolution" says they "only" have to pay 2.000$ in deductibles and copay now.

Well, with what their insurance pays it's still about $10k total.

> Just for comparison: a fully-fledged broken leg operation costs 3.000€ for non-insured people in Germany.

My dad had brain surgery in Germany by pretty much the leading experts for that particular kind of surgery. The surgery itself, the hospital stay, etc. was about 18,000€ in total.

We had to pay about 1,000€... for a hotel and living expenses for my mother and myself since we wanted to stay with him. Insurance covered everything my dad needed.

So you can literally have brain surgery for what it costs to get some stitches in the US.
I’m a little confused, this talks about it as a bill, but at the top of the document it says “This is not a bill”

As you read further, it’s a denial along with a questionnaire. It’s scary but they were not asking for the money, just verifying liability.
Maybe they should go the opposite direction and make the screen on the (M1) Macbook Air into a touch screen with Pencil support?

That way people could run their Pencil enabled iPad apps on their Macbook Air directly, without needing an iPad.
The idea that this is a free market system is patently false The cost is not $19k , it is whatever the billing department decides to surprise the patient with.

The medical care quality isn't relevant to the point, but it is dependent on how you want to measure it. If getting basic care to your citizens at an affordable cost is any important metric , then the US fails miserably.

I never goto the ER even if I need to anymore. I'm too busy paying off my $30k bill for a single EKG.
Even if I did provide you some report showing banks use more than Bitcoin (which is still true for now) it's only a fraction of the big picture. Although banks are a good example of this effect, Bitcoin doesn't JUST improve banking. As this plays out, mining infrastructure provides a shared resource that can be used by MILLIONS of companies, among which are banks who manage massive datacenters requiring humans and their associated energy consumption, the cost for audits, compliance, card readers, and other things that Bitcoin makes effortless. Surely unlocking efficiency offsets power consumption, and at scale the efficiency improvements can be astronomical. An accurate figure on this probably does not even exist, especially considering the lack of imagination with respect to Bitcoin use-cases. Not to mention the biggest energy consumers are also the best in the world at reducing their consumption out of competitive necessity.
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> the problem is that $18,933.44 for stitches and anesthesia makes absolutely no sense at all.

It does make sense if you have a law that limits the profit rate for a particular enterprise so it has no other way of increasing the profit than pushing up the price to a level where 20% of that price is the desired outcome.

Netherlands has a really nice system that would probably work for the US as well if there were any political interest to fix the healthcare system. Right now both parties are heavily in the pockets of insurance companies so the only things you can see is failed half-assed, broken solutions like Obamacare that cost billions even to operate a website.

https://www.aeaweb.org/research/regulating-health-insurers-a...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-09-24/obamacare...
All in the name of stopping socialism. Meanwhile, the people keep lowering taxes for the rich until you have a civil war with all those people who have plenty of guns, but nothing to loose.
Sorry - I was being flippant because your argument involved time travel. After the fact an event has 100% probability that it did occur but before the event it does not.

The entire field of chaos theory is to make chaos deterministic so you are in good company. There is no general mechanism (yet) to do this. Quantum mechanics is the most interesting area.

The measure of determinism is that it predicts the future before it happens. People have been trying to do this for years in weather and the stock market. This is where the concept of Chaos came from.

Leaving math and physics - there is philosophy. To apply determinism to people you would have to decide there is no free will. Maybe this is true and maybe not.
No it just means that it’s beyond comprehension. As a Canadian, I feel the same way.

Everything about the American healthcare system feels like a nightmare to me. From the cost, to the fact that it’s usually tied to your employer (!!) and that even if you have good insurance, you have to make sure to get care from “in network” healthcare professionals.

It seems to require a tremendous amount of energy for very little benefit for average citizens.
When you are dying of cancer, a bad trip is a small inconvenience. A therapist will make the chance of that very small anyway.
Hospitals must stabilize anyone who walks through the ER door by law, no matter their ability to pay. They do not receive any funding for that mandate, however, so they have to make up the cost across their patients that do have the ability to pay. The stitches don’t cost $18k, but the ten people who walked in prior with no insurance and a broken leg or heart palpitations do.

Edit: to be clear I’m not defending this awful system.
None of the suggestions in the post would increase the complexity.

I like the way Apple redesigned the home screen experience this year: a LOT more features, but all are gradually discovered. App Library discovered when you "hide" an app. Togglable pages discovered when you tap on dots in wiggle mode. Widgets discovered via + in wiggle mode. Many people won't know about any of this, and that's fine.

Same with Pro apps and plugins, or side-loading. Gradually discovered complexity, and only if you need[0].

The post does not argue for introducing a Finder and a file system, or overlapping windows.

[0] - one possible downside would be if for App Store rules reasons some major apps would go for side-loading. Even if only Netflix decided to move away from the App Store and educate customers how to install via side-loading, it would suck for most people AND Apple. Probably the main reason why Apple will do anything in it's power to never allow this to happen.
I disagree.

This is not capitalism but government meddling and third party payer inflating prices.

Sure, the USA is one of the best medical care systems in the world (and it's definitely better quality than any public service you will find in Europe) but it doesn't cover cheaper services.

Under an unregulated market, with pure capitalism, you would see cheaper, smaller hospitals pay-as-you-go or via cheap insurances.
This video is actually linked in the article
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Good thing that there were no "leftist" "communists" to prevent that story from happening in the first place. The Market (tm) will self regulate.
I never use the back camera on the iPad :-) I would like the face unlock to work both in portrait and landscape, but otherwise the camera in the back might as well not exist.