As long as you have a free market and not a coordinated one it will work out great for you guys too
Ah, so we're fucked
nolefan33
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There's not really a way to do that with this technology. These are just price tags on the shelf, so if they changed the price it would change it for everyone in the store.
The article goes into this in great depth on both sides of the issue, but this is probably the most direct answer.
The drinks, dispensed by nurses as a form of medication, are meant to prevent the clients from becoming overly intoxicated while avoiding the worst effects of withdrawal, which may lead to seizures and can be fatal for those physically dependent on alcohol.
To address the "taxpayers expense" part, it's way more expensive to provide major health care than small amounts of vodka.
The deductible is an amount that you pay out of pocket before insurance starts covering anything. So if insurance doesn't get billed, the money doesn't count towards the deductible. This may make it difficult to lower the bill at all, it really depends on how much the entire bill is compared to your deductible. If you can't pay it though, they'll have to give you an affordable payment plan. Definitely negotiate and don't take a loan out from some other source to cover.
Well that's the strongest argument for making a Bluesky account that I've heard
I periodically stumble across Joel's blog and it blows my mind how relevant it typically is.
I don't know the ins and outs of the ADA, but I disagree with your analogy. What Starbucks is doing is akin to Walmart charging a different price for milk and oat milk, which I don't think anyone would say is not allowed. It's not like there's a sheet of lactose you have to walk through to get into a Starbucks or anything, there's just things on the menu that people with some food allergies can't order.
Holy shit, they really buried the lede with that headline. For sure, throw away the key.
The linked URL at the top is The Seattle Times reporting on this comment. The original comment was just being reposted here for full context.
Yeah, I'm not actually that worried. I've seen these in use at hardware stores for quite a while now. It's just useful to assume that Walmart is planning to fuck you over. That's a good point with BT though, many of the kind of microcontrollers that would be used for this sort of thing offer BT connectivity as well.