{"id":54229,"date":"2024-04-02T05:58:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T12:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54229"},"modified":"2024-04-01T19:11:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T02:11:48","slug":"open-thread-april-2-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/02\/open-thread-april-2-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 2, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, it literally took me more than four hors to payy just one medical bill with a credit card. A big part of that was that the bill showed a single figure which I had to go through 11 MSNs (formerly EOBs) where i found more than 10 line items for this particular service, not all of which were from this provider, and the only way I could find out which were was by trial and error adding p combinations until I foundthe combination that matched the bill. That took about three hours. Then I spent 15-20 minutes making a PDF of just the claims which applied to this provider,because it would have taken even longer to do it later, and w=even paying by credit card on line I willl eventually have to provide documentation to my HRA. The outher hpur was spent fighting with the provider&#8217;s billing agency&#8217;s website. I wasn&#8217;t expecting that, and after spending all that time just putting the information tpgether, I was not in a good mood to begin with. And then I had to get back to my email inbox, which was pretty well stuffed.<\/p>\n<p>This is a <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthubbell.substack.com\/p\/keeping-the-flame-alive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Missouri leads the way&#8221;<\/a> story, which I can now put up because Nameless&#8217;s computers (yes, that&#8217;s plural &#8211; everything was down) are fixed. It&#8217;s not the Missouri government, of course &#8211; it&#8217;s individual Democrats working together to unsure there is a Democrat in every race.<\/p>\n<p>This is <a href=\"https:\/\/steveschmidt.substack.com\/p\/freedom-has-lit-the-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a very moving story<\/a> about\u00a0an extraordinary person, who has a warning for all of us.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WZDPBT5aXi4?si=AKtliZKXgcpkv4o5\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zAlXkAUpRe8?si=02nIeIG_KI33uQuK\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54224\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/real-journos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"712\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/real-journos.jpg 712w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/real-journos-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/real-journos-150x97.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, it literally took me more than four hors to payy just one medical bill with a credit card. 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