It’s amazing to me that we’ve gotten to a point as a society where people are advising each other to pay for something like PreCheck, so that on certain occasions when the TSA feels like it you might get through their security theater a bit quicker. And people think that’s a good deal!

I think the funniest thing about the washcloth/loofah/bar of soap debates are how truly shocked people are that other people don't wash the same way they do. I'm no different...I read a comment about how gross it is for people to share the same bar of soap if they don't use a washcloth and I was utterly aghast that…

I read the books and they were enough to keep me entertained but I didn’t think the writing was great. I think they’re still better than the show, which I watched the first two seasons of and keep meaning to catch up on but am never actually motivated to do.

I said nothing about off the top of their head; of course I would expect them to have to look it up. And I don’t expect them to know the ins and outs of my plan; I just need to know if they’re in-network or not.

On a similar note, it’s weird to me how an athlete who uses a homophobic slur is criticized (and rightly so), but if that same athlete politely argues that gay people should be treated as second-class citizens because his interpretation of a 2,000 year old book says so, we’re expected to tolerate his difference of…

I agree, but I give them my insurance card which has my specific plan and member IDs. They should know based on that.

Yeah. Not to say that it’s ever fun to be fired, but when you have a multimillion dollar contract that your employer is still required to pay you, you’ll be fine. I don’t bother to have much sympathy for coaches/managers who get fired unless their team actually screws them by trying to get out of paying what they’re…

I interpreted it as he received an email from the airline, not the team. And presumably communication from the airline would go to his personal email address...at least that's how I've always set it up.

The responsibility of patients is really to demand increased regulation on insurance companies.

I’m sympathetic to providers because in my experience they at least try to be honest and helpful, but I still think they should be responsible for answering questions about whether they accept an insurance plan or not. A provider’s office is going to have a lot fewer plans to be aware of than an insurance company is…

Yeah, and why stop at declawing? I paid for my pet, so I should decide if I want to beat the shit out of it or not. /sarcasm

I’m aware of the procedure and don’t care.

Except nobody actually has to choose between those two options.

I used to work on healthcare interoperability and let me just say that it’s a goddamn travesty that we have to worry about this because the technology is there to make this easy. The barriers are healthcare organizations being operated for profit who don’t want to make it easy for you to get care outside of their…

I don’t know how I am supposed to know what it pays for and what it doesn’t when contacting my insurance company directly gets me a different answer depending on who I talk to. (It should go without saying that any disputes I have as a result of their misinformation will be directed at them and not the provider’s…

So basically, it’s an ACL? I wish reporters would stop rushing to report that X-rays are negative when they show absolutely nothing about the injury it’s more likely to be. I mean, you might as well say he got a prostate exam that was normal for all the relevance it has to the suspected injury.

It amazes me how clueless managers and bosses can be. I knew someone who was let go suddenly and told it was because she wasn’t good at her job (I don’t know how true this was). They called her a few hours later to ask how to do something that no one but her knew how to do. Her response was “I don’t know, I’m not any…

When I took my first flight, I crossed my fingers as the plane accelerated down the runway. I'm not particularly scared of flying but was a little nervous based on the novelty of everything. Dozens of flights later, I have to cross my fingers on takeoff because if I don't, and that flight happens to crash, my last…

Far be it for me to defend either the Olympics or Brazil, but is there really anything we can do short of a true quarantine to prevent the spread of the virus?

I’ve had GERD for...Christ, over a decade now. First got it in college and did nothing to treat it until I got a job and had insurance. I’ve been on omeprazole daily since 2009 and am convinced that it’s probably doing something horrible to me. (I was also diagnosed with cardiomyopathy last year, so that’s just great…