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1. Yes, it has an Isofix mounting which in the US is called "Latch". 2. We cannot currently sell directly into Europe, though we'd love to at some point. If you're a distributor please drop me a line!
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Your Tesla manual may call it Latch (the US version of EU's Isofix). Same thing but different name.
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;) Point taken.
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Thanks!
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1. Safety (* see below) 2. Ease of Installation (* see below) 3. Bauhaus Design 4. 1-Hand Operation 5. Ease of Cleaning 6. Built in Rocker (a full one) 7. Quiet (* see below) * Safety > The US regs are pass/fail so lots of seats on
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Thanks, though, for taking a look! I used to know some of the Cybex people (it was a European company), and they congratulated us on beating their best safety scores at the time. Now Cybex is owned by an Asian conglomerate (Goodbaby). The K
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Not sure what you are referring to about a strap being a single point of failure. Patents > We don't work for free, and we can't buy groceries by giving away years of R&D. Companies are welcome to license our safety innova
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I assume you are worried about off-gassing, and direct ingestion of harmful chemicals. TLDR: We stack up really well. 1) No flame retardants are used in the upholstery. We worked really hard to meet the flammability requirements with mater
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Yes, but my kids have outgrown them. When my son outgrew his seat, he sometimes still used it as a rocking chair to read his books in his room.
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Thanks! All the cushions are removable (velcro) so you can hit it with a hose and separately wash the cushions. The interior chassis surface is smooth, which is a big point of pride for us as it is easier to clean.
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Sizing > Realistically, the seat fits average kids up to 3 years. At the 95% percentile on height most kids will outgrow a rear-facing car seat at 18 months (the growth of the torso is the limiting factor). From a labeling perspective
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We make the world's best baby car seats. https://www.kioma.us Fatherly Magazine calls it "The Car Seat of the Future". It's been crash tested, flight inversion tested, flammability tested and mom tested.
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3y ago
You can check ours out at https://providers.evryhealth.com/ Select the EPO plan, then select the "Cost Estimator" tile below the search box. We provide this for the most common ICD codes, and will be adding more
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3y ago
"She said Cigna does not directly benefit from such savings." The quote indicates that the employer group was self-insured, and Cigna was the plan administrator. This means that Cigna is not insuring the health plan. Cigna is pr
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3y ago
Emergencies are always considered In-Network by law *. For example, if you are traveling Out of Area (OOA) and skiing in Colorado, and you have a medical emergency, emergency room care is considered In-Network. Any financial responsibility
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4y ago
Electrical pulse ablation technology has been around a while, with multiple studies performed and a large body of patents. The promise and hope for the technology is that is causes cell apoptosis, and early rat studies showed electrical ab
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I'm the CEO and cofounder of a health insurer that published its pricing data. See it on GitHub at https://github.com/evryhealth/price-transparency To add some fuel to this discussion, US healthcare has grown
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Oh the irony. This is the Pelican program restart. Circa 2005. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Pelican Pelican was a ground-effect heavy lift aircraft, too. DARPA refused to fund any Pelican developmenta
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5y ago
My family tried the "health share" thing too, before we created Evry Health. We used to have proper insurance, then post-ACA the prices were so outrageous it became a choice of a) pay for normal insurance via ACA or b) save/
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> Getting ahead of this and trying to divert patients from this wasteful system is a fantastic and profitable idea for the insurer. We try to provide on-demand care whenever reasonable and possible. While it increases utilization of thi
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@arpitrao, we’d love to meetup in Houston. Our @jstartz26 (COO) is based there. Currently we cover SE TX and Houston with a provider network partner, but we growing our directly contracted network too.
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Chris here. Medicare is the current lightning rod, but in the US we have several federal health plans: 1. Medicare, 2. Medicaid, 3. Federal Employees Health Insurance Program, 4. Department of Defense / TriCare, 5. VA Personally, I’d
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A pooling mechanism is needed. Additionally, the pooling entity would want to meet (or make sure the various fractional employers trying to insure "Hank" meet) federal ERISA requirements for the favorable tax treatment of paying
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Chris (CEO) here. Thanks for the HBR citation regarding incentives. I can hope the market will someday shift quickly, because that would benefit more people more quickly. Realistically, though, I think it will take at least 10-20 years
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Chris (CEO) here. What happened with your billing software experience is unacceptable, but it isn’t the primary use case we are solving for. Yes, we’ll happily white label/license our tech to other insurers, TPAs, etc. We can license
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Chris (CEO) here. I’m not aware of anyone that has created a model to fractionally insure a single person as you have described. There are models and mechanisms for multiple smaller employer groups to band together. For example, associatio
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> How do you plan to maintain this cost down once you extend to new states / product /over time, to keep this cost advantage? You are correct that the legacy insurance industry struggles with tech and compliance. I've had
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Chris (CEO) here. We approach the mental health dialog differently. We consider access to mental health to be an extension of primary care, a fundamental piece of the care continuum that is needed to sustain people in their pursuit of hea
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Thank you! Medical + Rx trend: Our trends are a little lower than the published trend figures because of the shifts we are creating through embedded telehealth and telemedicine solutions. For competitive reasons, we cannot disclose exactl
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Good question, and thank you for asking it. The short answer is No. We have “escape” codes to make sure the doctor is not penalized. For example, if there is a risk of embolism or if there is an aneurysm complication during surgery, then t
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