Cheers

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[–] Cheers 46 points 8 months ago

Speaking from the pharmacy perspective.

Banks wove their way into drug transactions as a middleman called Pharmacy benefits managers. They stand between insurance and pharmacies to prevent collision, but instead, what we see is insurance companies pay a lot for drugs, while pharmacies see very little for that drug. Over 50% is being taken by the PBM because they're "preventing" collision. Don't even get me started on the vertically integrated pharmacies like CVS and United who abuse their position to force consumers to use their pharmacies instead of competitors or use "technological advancements" to keep their prices lower than their competitors.

NYC is currently trying to pass legislation to fix this, but that's only at the state level.

Wall Street needs to get the fuck out of healthcare and healthcare needs to stay the fuck out of Wall Street. Once a healthcare org talks about share holders, we're no longer talking about patients.

[–] Cheers 7 points 8 months ago

Bad take.

Code is about working with a limited set of tools and making them work for whatever task is in front of you.

Inspiration is from interacting with something and receiving insight.

The best coders meld the two and push the industry forward. If you impose self limitations like this on yourself, then you'll never advance yourself.

This is like saying you read lord of the rings and now can't play DND because the fantasy source material was 'stolen'.

[–] Cheers 1 points 8 months ago

I definitely had charge anxiety, but my ioniq 6 comes with a simple wall charger that does the job nightly. It's like plugging in your phone.

[–] Cheers 3 points 8 months ago

I'm sure their adoption rate looks like, does the user use the autostart software when the start the car? Yes? Wow, using our software really is amazing.

Now what about the optional Android auto software? No? Pft, we have 100% adoption vs 50% (assuming 50% of users use Android).

[–] Cheers 2 points 8 months ago

Sounds a bit like the recent exploit for saying a word forever. I wonder how long until these break down and start spewing their source code.

[–] Cheers 38 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Not just that, he used star link to manage international relations by suddenly stopping service for Ukraine.

He's a "free speech abolitionist" and egotistical megalomaniac that's willing lie about deliverables and take illegal actions because there's been no punishment.

Here's punishment.

[–] Cheers 7 points 8 months ago

It's probably on claim submission.

My company operates as an LTC pharmacy. We pay for every claim submission whether reject or success.

I was on the phone the other day with my pharmacy (optum) and they did a "test" claim which was free for them. I know optum owns the pharmacy, insurance, and pbm, but either their abusive their vertical integration or they have an "ai" to test claims.

[–] Cheers 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

No I didn't. I'm praising governments willing to stand of for their people. I'm responding to someone else that said the government works for the people and I said that's not how the US works. Governments don't always work for the people, sometimes they bend the knee for corporations.

[–] Cheers -4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

That's not how the us works

[–] Cheers 6 points 8 months ago (9 children)

This isn't just people standing up for themselves. This is governments protecting people.

[–] Cheers 1 points 8 months ago

Most of us use Google, Microsoft and Amazon. They're ingrained and destroying our futures but they're convenient. Two generations from now will be saying the same about us. We as individuals can resist, but it won't make a trillion dollar company into a million dollar company. We eat the rich, none of this generation hate.

[–] Cheers 25 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Eat the rich, not the boomers. They're not the same.

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