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UpCoconut t1_izkdek4 wrote
Reply to comment by virgil1134 in U.S. hospitals are required to publish their prices for medical procedures now, so my friends and I collected around 15 million prices from 143 hospitals in Massachusetts and created a search engine where anyone can see how much they may be charged. Let me know what you think! by taeyoungwoo
not necessarily. With my HDHP, the insurance still has a negotiated rate. It's just a negotiated rate that I have to pay instead of the insurance company paying it. For example, I had emergency surgery that was billed to me for $15K. I added my insurance and the bill was revised to $7K for it. I then negotiated it down from there. The website says that BCBS for this surgery is $12 at the hospital I went to. Not $12K. $12. Definitely wrong.
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Reply to comment by schoolbusserman in U.S. hospitals are required to publish their prices for medical procedures now, so my friends and I collected around 15 million prices from 143 hospitals in Massachusetts and created a search engine where anyone can see how much they may be charged. Let me know what you think! by taeyoungwoo
I had similar observations. Plus, the insurance coverage isn't adequately specific. For example, just putting in BCBS... is that the PPO? I have a BCBS high deductible health plan and the numbers here just don't make sense.
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Reply to comment by massahoochie in Massachusetts, New England grocery stores ranked by consumer nonprofit by JBupp
There isn't a market basket near me, but where I used to live there were 2 within 5 miles of each other. Friends and I used to call them USA Market Basket and Soviet Union Market Basket. USA was OK. USSR was produce was in shrink wrap, shelves always empty, dairy products expired in the case...complete train wreck. It was so weird that two stores of the same brand so close together had such a different experience.
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Reply to comment by jp_jellyroll in Rant: MA healthcare is among the best in the country, but insurance is wicked expensive by nebirah
In my district, it IS the schools that need convincing. This isn't an issue of budget or taxes. During COVID, they switched to a 'no-touch' cafeteria kitchen where everything is pre-packaged centrally by an outsourced vendor instead of being prepared by the local staff. The costs are the same, but the quality has gone way down... some private company is making bank and delivering garbage.
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Reply to comment by Top-Support9541 in Rant: MA healthcare is among the best in the country, but insurance is wicked expensive by nebirah
My son agrees with you. He's 13 and started his first website last year that's just photos of the school lunches and a simple description of what's in each. Has not yet shamed the school into action but received some traction among his classmates.
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Reply to comment by ohmyashleyy in Thanksgiving questions from a foreigner by obcork
Some frozen birds have an estimated defrost time printed on the label, but not all. Like cook time, it's largely based on weight. For the size birds I get, putting it in the fridge the Saturday night before Thanksgiving is usually good.
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Reply to comment by Unique-Public-8594 in Thanksgiving questions from a foreigner by obcork
If you do frozen, do NOT forget to defrost the turkey.
Do NOT trust the pop-up timer. Those things are wrong so often. Use a real meat thermometer.
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Reply to comment by odamado in Transgender couple considering moving to Boston by pinkrosxen
Most of Western MA certainly is. There are a few hilltowns between the Berkshires and the Pioneer Valley that are not as tolerant as other areas.