jeanlucneptune

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by jeanlucneptune 4y ago
Thank you for your sane reply.
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by jeanlucneptune 4y ago
Your solution to the healthcare crisis is just make everybody lose weight and all the problems of our system go away. You ever try to lose 10 pounds? 100? Spend some time in a general medicine clinic and come back to me.
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by jeanlucneptune 4y ago
#3 - Kaiser is great, no question. Just not familiar with them since they don't have a presence in NYC. Honestly, if we had to emulate one model in the country it would definitely be the Kaiser model.
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by jeanlucneptune 4y ago
Kaiser is legendarily great healthcare, so I hear you. Not familiar with Kaiser being in NYC, but I can say that Aetna is probably the best insurer here (again, depending on your plan).
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by jeanlucneptune 4y ago
"The poor apparently deserve their poor health access." Exactly what a large percentage of Americans believe. I disagree with them, but hard to make an argument for a better system when many believe that the poor shouldn't h
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by jeanlucneptune 4y ago
Yes, you definitely should have a health insurance plan of some type. Your concierge doc fee will not pay for a visit to the ER, which can bankrupt the average person who doesn't have coverage.
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by jeanlucneptune 4y ago
@ShredKazoo Most providers do communicate with the payor and have a decent idea of what you owe, so I was being a bit snarky there. If they know you have a zero copay, you make no payment on site with no follow up bill afterwards.
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by jeanlucneptune 4y ago
Basically, like a doctor with a membership club. Generally doesn't take your insurance, although some services might covered by your insurance. Good example is MDVIP - https://www.mdvip.com/ . I have no relation to th
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by jeanlucneptune 4y ago
A high deductible plan can save you money on the front end, but if you start using that plan you should prepare for rain - a deluge of bills from providers who have no idea what the insurance owes and what you owe. And God-forbid you use a
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by jeanlucneptune 4y ago
If you have a zero copay plan and your provider is in-network, for example, you're not going to be getting a bill in the mail later saying you owe XYZ dollars. If, however, if you have a situation where you are using co-insurance (you
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by jeanlucneptune 4y ago
Agreed. If your employer is trying to skimp on cost you can end up with some really poor options. Lesson there is to find an employer that offers generous benefits. Easier said than done, I know.
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by jeanlucneptune 4y ago
Veteran doc and health services executive here. Three recommendations to improve your overall healthcare experience as a patient. Number one recommendation: spend $$$ on a concierge primary care doc. Depending on your market can be anywhe
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by jeanlucneptune 4y ago
Who do you think ODs on drugs? Just random people making bad choices? Obviously not. It's people who are losing hope, losing community, and losing themselves. Read "Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism" from res
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by jeanlucneptune 4y ago
Can't begin to LOL this enough. Go ask people in Appalachia, on an Indian reservation, in urban public housing about their increased living standards. Living standards have surely gone up if you're on the leading edge of the eco
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by jeanlucneptune 4y ago
Word, my brother.
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by jeanlucneptune 4y ago
Sure I'll give COVID and drug ODs their due in knocking down our overall life expectancy, but if we don't address the impacts of late stage capitalism (late stage Reaganism), we're missing much of the story. Ask yourself: 1.
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by jeanlucneptune 4y ago
My belief is that under Musk being verified will have a significant impact on your experience as a user. In other words, I think we're heading to a regime where you get verified or you're forced off. No Twitter for free users.
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by jeanlucneptune 4y ago
Agree on the utility for corporations of having an "official" account to guard against impersonators. But if Twitter becomes a ghost town it probably won't even matter if you're verified or not.
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by jeanlucneptune 4y ago
Jack's launching Bluesky soon, which is apparently just repurposed Twitter stack. Tribel looks like another option that many people have been talking about. Lately, I've been spending more time on Reddit. Another option is to repl
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by jeanlucneptune 4y ago
I'm a twitter "heavy user" - logging in daily and tweeting > 4x per week. Users like me make up 10% of users, but 90% of tweets. I've been a heavy user X 15 years and I'm still not a blue check. I perceive no ben
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by jeanlucneptune 6y ago
Literally any electronic medical record system ever built. HUNDREDS of different systems on the market. Some with maybe a handful of doctor's offices using a particular system. Worst UIs you could ever imagine. Limited interoperabili
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Digital Health: Lots of Hype But Little Progress(jeanlucneptune.com)
1 points by jeanlucneptune 12y ago|0 comments
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Thinking Out Loud About A New Approach To Digital Health Innovation(jeanlucneptune.com)
1 points by jeanlucneptune 12y ago|0 comments
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Having Trouble Visualizing Lane Closures In "Bridge-Gate"?(jeanlucneptune.com)
3 points by jeanlucneptune 13y ago|0 comments
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by jeanlucneptune 13y ago
I like the betterdoctor price maps! Too bad you didn't have a chance to enter our competition, because you might have been a winner. By point: 1.) Good choice 2.) You need to consider co-pays as well as allowable charges, deductibles,
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by jeanlucneptune 13y ago
Assuming this data is from the Medicare (insurance program for those >65) dataset released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services earlier this year ( http://go.cms.gov/1bowKJA ) I have a couple of points to make