I didn’t think they were that bad. Should be a definite bowl team.

Sorta seems that way.

I heard Newsmax say Kamala Harris was a DEI hire for VP.

I mean, she was twice the AG of the biggest state in American and a 2 time US Senator...not enough for the meritocracy, oh Conservative Intelligencia?

We still landing on "DEI hire" for our VP? Or any non-white person, for that matter? Seems like it.

Who's preoccupied with identity politics and race again?

football picks they like today. looked at the whole card today really don't like anything. will probably take Texas -6- mainly because I hate Michigan. getting ready to head to the Sportsbar for the day. need some action.

LEO

Or the ass-backward interpretation of it in the holler.

NIU kicked a FG with 31 seconds left in the game. ND tried a 62-yard FG but got it blocked.

Gonna get real next week.

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to allow PSU to break it wide open. They lost by 7. Reminded me of his play at IU.

Looks like we just lost 1 big piece of the group visit! Apparently committed to UK this morning.

Texas holding call nullifies a touchdown. I've seen Michigan do that to lesser teams 1000X and it's never called. Fvck Michigan, go Texas!!

Still only has 3 punts.

First, the drug companies have a competitor, Four Thieves Vinegar Collective. They teach groups how to make their versions of the same drugs that big pharma makes. For example, there is a drug that costs $1000 per pill that cures Hep-C. Doesn't treat, cures. But it takes 84 pills. So insurance never pays for it, they pay for the much cheaper pill that treats Hep-C making it so one can live with the disease forever. Obviously, I think most would rather it be cured—the cost of the cure for the collective to make, 80 cents a pill.


Another drug they work with is Daraprim. Now this one was $13.50 a pill until a hedge fund startup bought the rights and it went to $750. So this is different than above, this isn't a company recouping investment costs, this is profiteering. So they make Daraprim available. It is mentioned in the story above, here is a story about it being bought and the price jacked up:


Now switching to insurance. By law, insurance denials are to be looked at by doctors and signed off on. One would think that is to safeguard the consumer. In CIGNA they are signing off on denials at an incredible rate, one former employee-doctor said it takes 10 seconds to sign off on 50 denials. One doctor rejected 121,000 claims in his first 2 months. How much time is he spending looking at a file and considering?

This hit home after a buddy had a claim rejected. I've known him since high school, he was diagnosed with a degenerative lung condition and his quality of like greatly eroded. It came to the point he could no longer work though he was desperate to work until 67, so he was facing going on social security disability. Just before that point, he was sent to a new specialist. The specialist said he was misdiagnosed. his issue was in the pulmonary artery and there was a very effective treatment in a pill. Of course the pill cost maybe $1000 per pill, but it was available. This is someone who could barely sit up for 2 hours any longer. Of course his insurance denied it. He won on appeal, but it was 3 months. It seems the insurance company has an incentive to deny. The worst that happens, they save 3 months of the treatment. If they are lucky, he accepts their decision and they never pay.

So it turns out, Aetna is doing almost the same thing as CIGNA. Claims are denied in bulk without being reviewed.


It seems coverage mandated by state law are often turned down:


Mistakes happen, we all know that. But it seems that insurers aren't particularly concerned about reducing mistakes that benefit them. And as that last article notes, the fines are often a very small percentage of their profits, so not exactly a great deterrent. If enough big bills are held back for a month or three on appeals, that can be a lot of interest gained.

Pretty cool if you like historic arenas.

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You that know more about football than I do, are we good at pass defense or not? Seemed like there are a lot of open receivers. Even last night there were open people. The tackling is good and we tackle after the catch and haven’t let anyone wide open deep but I just worry that it seems that the short 5-7 yard routes have been open. Thoughts?

From S.I.:


Looks like the only possible surprises might be on the defensive side of the ball where their top two players weren't in the game last week... If they show up Friday night we might get a little better workout than expected but it's unlikely that even their presence will be enough to give us a serious scare...

Looks like the perfect match up for a week two tune up to get ready for the trip out west...

The only way we lose this game is if our Team is even more overconfident about this matchup then I am and find several ways to beat themselves...

From The Atlantic: During a conversation onstage at a Moms for Liberty event last week, Donald Trump said something that made even me—a seasoned visitor to Trump’s theme park of hyperbole—look around in confusion at the people around me in the audience.

“The transgender thing is incredible,” he told the Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice. “Think of it; your kid goes to school, and he comes home a few days later with an operation. The school decides what’s going to happen with your child.”

Okay, one of two options in play here. One, Trump has completely lost his mind. Two, Trump believes the audience he is addressing are total Morans and will accept anything he tells them as true.

I’d vote for both options being correct.

The Hoosiers are back in action tonight, playing host to the Leathernecks. Follow along this thread to stay in the discussion throughout the game!

Anyone know why he’s not playing?

and a chick...