All_Pro_Bills

True story. Yesterday I received the explanation of benefits on a claim from June when a medical emergency sends my wife to the hospital ER. She spends 4 days in ICU and another 4 days in step-down care and is released in good shape. The EOB looks wrong to me. It says service type provided is "surgery". There was not surgery. It should be "emergency services". I'm somewhat of an expert when it comes to medical claim processing as I previously spend 8 years managing a technical group that supported claim processing systems at an insurer. So I e-mail my carrier suggested the provider submitted it incorrectly. They're checking into it. And when I ask them for the diagnosis and procedure codes the doctor submitted one of the diagnosis codes is as follows: "NA Z20822Diagnosis --- CONTACT W/AND (SUSPECTED) EXPOSURE TO COVID-19". Complete BS, as she presented not a single symptom of COVID and was vaccinated. No cough, no fever, no sore throat, no respiratory distress. So now she's counted as a "suspected case" and during the hospitalization got two COVID tests and both returned negative. Oh, and because of that diagnosis the charge got jacked up big time! There ya go...

Well I feel so much better knowing you care.

Oh, I won't answer the question. One of the people who won't answer a question is calling me out for not answering their question. Wow. That's the definition of irony. Another guy with a love affair with Trump that just can't move on. Biden most likely will be dead before November 2024. And you can take that to the bank.

Do you think Biden's indifference to the gun violence and crime against people of color in inner city communities enhances his chances for 2024?

obviously you as you seem to be an expert on it.

Latest poll suggest support for Biden polices is dropping. And that 60% of Democrats are gun carrying illegal immigrants committing crimes! https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/outside-covid-19-biden-receives-mixed-approval-ratings

That was a George Bush I special. Getting a "random" Kuwaiti women to testify to Congress about she witnessed atrocities committed by invading Iraqi forces. Turns out she's related to the Kuwait ambassador to the US and is a plant to tell a good story to support justification for a US invasion. Kind of like all the committee witnesses we're going to hear from are coached up by Nancy. What pissed me off most about Desert Storm was how many times NBC interrupted the Bills AFC Championship game against the Raiders. Maybe one of the biggest wins in team history. Interrupted by some clown reporter on a roof of a building in Arabia ducking scud missiles. All the time I'm hoping one hits and blows him up to end all the interruptions! But in the world of military weapons the word Scud is synonymous with inaccuracy.

I'd like to tell Roddan I've been given two US flags from military funerals of family members that served and sacrificed to protect his pathetic ass that I'd just love to shove down his throat when he gets back from the games.

Who needs comedy central when we have this level of drama? Next there will be testimony about how protesters were ripping babies out of incubators. Remember that one?

Every word i said was TRUTH. Schiff. Pelosi, Chaney. All true. All establishment players. All bag person's for the 1%. All phony posers pretending to care about justice. Frauds. I can go on. How can you defend them? And what's the deal with your obsession with Trump? Get a room already. You sound like a jilted lover or an obsessed stalker. News flash: invoking his name does not invalidate my point. It doesn't.

Just like the American people have a right to know about every phone call out of Rep. Schiff's office made to the NY Times and Washington Post leaking confidential information or spreading misinformation during the 4 year long Russian collusion hoax. But the American people can wait until Hell freezes over before the corrupt sociopaths running the Federal government catch the honesty and truth virus. But Liz I'm an establishment tool, and my dad is a war criminal, Chaney never spoke a word on that one. And some love for Nancy Pelosi, I'm an agent for big corporate America like Raytheon and Goldman Sachs, too. And my husband is a big time hedge fund manager hiding from paying taxes via carried interest loop holes. And I'm a big time poser playing the virtue signalling game fooling the chumps who believe that garbage while we stuff our pockets with your tax dollars. ALL TRUTH!

You can search for FDA EUA approval for Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines, press releases, CDC EUA announcement, or view the studies info at clinical trials. Or just google "how effective are COVID vaccines?" You'll find Moderna is 94.1% effective. Pfizer clinical study shows 95%.

the results from the clinical studies. https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/home https://seekingalpha.com/pr/18129661-moderna-announces-fda-authorization-of-moderna-covidminus-19-vaccine-in-u-s

Pfizer and Moderna shots do not even fall under the traditional definition of a vaccine. They're Gene Therapy biologic's using messenger RNA that program your cells to "simulate" that your body is being attacked by a virus to generate the antibodies. They fail to generate those antibodies at about a 6% rate. The only way to know for certain if the shot worked for you is to get an antibody test from your doctor. So what other unknown genetic instructions might the mRNA "vaccine" initiate in your cells? Nobody knows for sure but a lot of people who got those shots, myself included, have rolled the dice on that risk. Could be nothing to worry about. Does anybody know for sure? No. And while all the government experts assure you its all safe and effective what it all comes down to is a personal decision weighing the risk of the virus to your health vs. the known reactions to the shot and the unknown long-term risks.

The majority of hospitalized COVID patients being 65+ are covered by Medicare and supplemental plans like Medicare Advantage and do not have Commercial coverage. So HHS would have to implement that policy. But ER services, hospital's and doctor's love the generous reimbursements provided by the government for COVID cases. So good luck getting that exclusion passed over the objections of powerful, big campaign contributing lobbies.

I have decided to not respond to certain posters any longer as I find it pointless to debate topics with somebody that only questions my views but provides few to no insights into their own ideologically generated opinions. The biggest reason I say this is that I am 100% confident they will never agree to anything you say, or any facts you present, or any conclusions you reach. So its pointless. Plus they feel no obligation to reciprocate. Only to question. Never to provide any answers. So why bother with it all?

Biden has been and is a "company" man for his entire career. So something like this is in character. While the social activist and the far left think they're going to get their wish list passed the joke is going to be on them and I wonder how long it will take for them to see that clearly. At some point even the left leaning knuckle headed apologists here will figure that our for themselves. While I had once viewed the left as using Biden's election as a vehicle to get the major items of their agenda pushed through I have revised that view to conclude Biden and his establishment and %1 handlers have used to left to generate the votes to get elected and get their agenda back on course after the 4 year Trump semi-interruption of their goals. Well done "deep state". Well done..

For somebody with a lot to say you say a lot of nothing.

Given the government has proven absolutely nothing to this point and that after 6 months there is still a lack of facts and evidence pushed into the public domain I think its acceptable for posters to throw out theories from all angles. As facts become available those facts can either support or not support the various scenarios. And we can dismiss those that are invalidated over time. These range from suggestions the entire thing was a government set up to the participants were traitors. I don't see how any of us can conclude we know for sure what did and didn't happen along with motives and intent. We're still in the discovery phase. I'm certainly open to the idea I might be dead wrong here and I would hope other posters can take that position too. it seems the sensible thing given what we don't know. And what we don't know seems like more than what we do know. And while I have my biases and inclinations when it comes to a government I see as demonstrating a consistent pattern of abuse of power and a bigger threat to our freedoms than any demonstrations we've witnessed on the left or on the right I could be wrong here. And so could the conclusions to this point of anyone else be wrong here too.

The FBI is a law enforcement agency that has been corrupted by political appointed leadership that uses the agency as a mechanism for political objectives. So when you have a rogue agency run by rogue elements fostering a lawless culture you can't expect people in that agency to follow any set of rules. One thing I found comical is the imaginary and propaganda-like persona of virtue and duty of the agency created by the TV networks and the entertainment industry contrasted with unethical and troubling behavior.

As professional experts at mis-information and deception they lie. That's their primary function. To trust the intelligence agencies of this government to tell the truth requires you to be dropped on your head until you lose consciousness and then when you wake up get hit by rocks on the head until your skull caves in.

The NSA spied on Carlson. They admitted it. After putting out some fake excuse and getting busted. Now claiming it was because his name came up in their snooping on some foreigner. But his name was illegally unmasked and his personal communications were leaked to specific media outlets. Both acts are crimes. And they won't reveal who leaked the info, or investigate, or name the official who ordered the unmasking. There are only a few members of the executive branch authorized to do this. One of them is the national security director. My bets on them. So there's your example.

And I'm 120% in agreement with you. Its doesn't make sense for some mouthpiece that is viewed as a consistent liar and untrusted source of information should be trying to convince the public to do get the shot. The message should be coming at the local level from primary care physicians and other trusted sources at the community level. Not some all powerful entity demanding obedience and compliance to their edicts. That isn't working. And imposing negative consequences for non-compliance is hardly within the realm of "democracy". And if you're vaccinated then you're protected to the maximum extent possible so stop obsessing about what other people choose and choose not to do. And even with people that are hospitalized there are several very good treatment protocols, and others in the process of approval reviews by the FDA, the medical community has developed over the past 1 1/2 years that have resulted in greater survival rates and fewer critical cases. The risk of death in healthy and younger people is close to zero. The stats from the CDC and other sources support this conclusion. If you or someone you know is at a higher risk then you need a personal plan to take the necessary precautions. Stop with all the expectations that civilization must adapt all aspects of life to ensure your personal safety.

What the current crop of social justice liberals fail to see is how Carlson merely talks about the thing the original liberal used to support. Distrust of big government, big corporate control, wall street control, forever wars, an intrenched deep state running the government regardless of the views of the electorate. When these traditional liberals are guests on his show they are mostly in violent agreement. That big oppressive government controlled by corrupt and powerful rich and elite oligarths control the entire system. One of them pointed out this week that if you want to know what drives Pelosi just look to Raytheon and Goldman Sachs. That's who she works for. Just like the guy across the isle. And in the Senate. On both sides. The system sucks. That's what Carlson is pointing out along with the absurdity of most of these social justice activists and causes. They avoid true economic issues and lead to absolutely nothing. A diversion. You want to help the inner city poor? How about diverting $50B from the defense budget for one year. Submit that bill on the House and Senate floor. See who votes yes. And get rid of the people that vote no. There you go! Economic social justice problems solved! Its not that hard if you've got people in charge actually trying to solve the problem instead of pretending to solve it while stuffing their own pockets and the pockets of the wealthy with loot from the Federal treasury.

But the COVID vaccines were not developed to target Delta. And are less effective against it. And Delta might be more infectious but it will likely be less lethal. So a goal of preventing serious illness and death is more realistic than a goal of stopping the spread. That can be done by identifying and protecting those most at risk. Its going to spread regardless of whether people get the current vaccines or not. Unless somebody can rush out a vaccine that targets Delta. I don't know if that's possible. Its going to spread regardless of lockdowns that are not going to be successful as the previous lockdowns didn't do much of anything except cause a lot of economic harm with adverse social impacts like a big increase in suicides, drug and alcohol abuse, and depression. My belief is we're just going to have to ride out this wave and make due. The wave should produce a lower case count, a shorter cycle, and a much lower death rate. And subsequent waves should follow the pattern until it fades over time.