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by ejb999 4y ago
I am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt - if amazon can show they can make money in this space by streamlining the medical experience, all the power to them - and it should attract others to try and do the same. Competition is a
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by ejb999 4y ago
right, its more of a conglomerate than a monopoly.
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by ejb999 4y ago
that is pretty much what Musk did with twitter - and he was vilified for it.
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by ejb999 4y ago
the overwhelming amount of things that patients come into a dr's office with do not required an actual MD to diagnose and treat - NP's and PA's do just fine in most cases. Heck, even regular nurses with a few years experience
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>If urgent care can reduce unnecessary strain on their thin ranks, so much the better. You are not completely wrong, but it is not that simple - the problem most PCPs have is that 'doc in a box' places tend to soak up all t
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by ejb999 4y ago
Not to mention that there is already a better than decent chance that no matter who has your medical records, they are already being stored or backed up into one of the major cloud providers anyway.
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by ejb999 4y ago
this is not a problem with just One Medical - it is a huge problem in primary care everywhere. New doctors generally don't want to go into primary care anymore - it doesn't pay nearly as much as being a specialist does, and you ar
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by ejb999 4y ago
If I live 4 hours away from the office, I don't need to show up at all and still get paid for 8 hours?
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by ejb999 4y ago
plenty of public employees get paid a ton of money - that hasn't gotten us any better people in those positions.
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by ejb999 4y ago
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34818282
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by ejb999 4y ago
Yep - I have a mechanic I trust - he doesn't do inspections, asked him to check my tires before I brought it in to get inspected and he said they should pass - unless the place I bring it for the inspection, also sells tires. Its mind
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by ejb999 4y ago
so they have more rights, but earn substantially less than what workers can earn in the USA for the same job. I for one am not sure I would make that trade.
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by ejb999 4y ago
Seems a stretch to just assume it was union busting without more evidence. 200+ people doing the exact same job in another facility in CA, that was not trying to unionize, were also let go 6 months ago. Seems clear that Tesla didn't ne
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by ejb999 4y ago
https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/archives/1994/03/273-3/132... "Salman Rushdie’s rights as an author are absolute and ought to be inalienable. A free society does not ban books. . . . But it i
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>When a message board or user is kicked off a platform, it's never for "saying the wrong thing" or "political correctness". That is not what I have seen - what about all the MDs and scientists that warned abo
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by ejb999 4y ago
"delusions of exceptionalism" Love that description - and of the 4 faults the author points out, that is the one that is going to hurt them the most. No way a company fixes having 'no mission', 'no urgency' and
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by ejb999 4y ago
It does seem random - I have submitted apps multiple times, and provided demo credentials for them to use (the app is gated, so you can't do anything without an account and logging in first). In 80% of the cases they never even logged
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by ejb999 4y ago
and if the government every truly defaults, you are pretty much screwed no matter what you own.
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by ejb999 4y ago
I always felt like DO had one of the very, very best set of documentation available on a lot of very technical topics (even things that didn't related only to D.O.) - sorry to see there were cuts in that area.
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by ejb999 4y ago
always thought twilio would be acquired by AWS eventually - twilio is more of a product than a company, or even just a set of product features. Never made sense to me as a stand-alone company.
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by ejb999 4y ago
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-issues-robocall-cease-and-d...
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by ejb999 4y ago
Yep. live thru that myself - never got laid of in either the 2008 or 2000 busts, but I know a lot of folks in tech and finance (especially) that it took them years to find anything close to comparable once they were let go. I am not yet c
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>As the mental health and drug crisis grows, I simply don't want to walk anywhere, and don't want my family walking places. Good point. There is very little motivation to make cities more 'walkable', if your walk
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by ejb999 4y ago
True in a lot of areas in the USA, but someday when you are in the US explore some of the less populated areas in small to mid-sized towns, far away from the major population areas. Sometimes I think people that grew up in, and live in a bi
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by ejb999 4y ago
You'll find almost no big companies are going to deal directly with a one person shop. I used to be able to do it all the time, now they a) don't want the hassle of dealing with a 1-person company, and 2) they don't want the
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>Over the last 15 or 20 years I’ve tried lots of databases of all flavors and every time come back to Postgres. Almost the same here, have tried just about everything that comes along, and sooner or later I end up swapping out the
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by ejb999 4y ago
>> it cost our family $145,613.79 I would be willing to wager that the 'cost' was in a reduced inheritance.
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by ejb999 4y ago
I don't think it is uncharitable at all. "I saved my whole life, and wanted to make sure I could give a little back to my loving family, but instead the healthcare industry soaked it all up during my final months." An awful l
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>The people who get squeezed are those of us who want an inheritance You just said the quiet part out loud, and is my biggest gripe about sob stories like this - it is almost always about the children resenting the fact that some of
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by ejb999 4y ago
thats how I read it to - the family didn't want the burden of doing the care, and also don't think anyone should have to pay for it - who are these magical fairies that are going to show up in your final days and take care of you

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