they are quitting in droves, or attempting to go private-pay only, further reducing the availability of care. Criminal.

For an independent psychologist who gets between $75-$150/therapy hour, but then has to spend 1-3 hours to collect from the insurance company, the practice of therapy is no longer a viable financial business —

Not highlighted in the article — but a rampant and systematic strategy by health insurers, is to deny payment to the few providers (therapists, etc) who are still willing to accept insurance.

“I fart in your general direction!”

Thank you for your service

Love this.

So miss him… we share a birth day, so this period is always bittersweet these days.

I’m pretty sure the Supreme Court said it’s cool to bribe government officials, as long as we call it “tips”…

Coincidentally, Trump has decided to make tips tax-free.

I recently turned iff autosoellcheck on iis because it wad so bad!

Same… using Threads too. Dumped the Bad Place over a year ago.

I do worry that if we self segment, we just keep building more and more comfortable echo chambers… which can lead to “surprises”… like the other day.