....Are no damn good.
They are ignorant.
They hate.
They're dishonest.
They're traitorous.
Most of them are immoral.
Monday, October 7, 2019
People Who Support Trump...
....Are no damn good.
They are ignorant.
They hate.
They're dishonest.
They're traitorous.
Most of them are immoral.
Thursday, October 3, 2019
Greedy Hospitals Fleece the Poor
How Greedy Hospitals Fleece the Poor
The most vulnerable Americans are being dunned into destitution through surprise fees and fraudulent practices.
By LIBBY WATSON
Americans face rapidly ballooning health-care costs; get pursued into financial ruin for the crime of getting sick; and get sicker and die because the price of health care is too high to pursue it at all. The precise number of people who go bankrupt because of a medical bill matters far less than the fact that medical bankruptcy is a real danger in the United States in a way that it simply isn’t in other developed countries. You don’t have to have a degree in economics to figure that out; you just have to have ever looked at a hospital bill.
On Monday, a Kaiser Health News report detailed the University of Virginia hospital system’s heartless pursuit of poor patients who owe them money. The hospital has sued its patients 36,000 times over six years, for as little as $13.91, with devastating consequences. The hospital has garnished wages and put liens on houses, levying high interest on delinquent patients. It sued its own employees for unpaid bills around 100 times a year.
It’s not just happening at UVA, though they are particularly aggressive. Last week, The New York Times reported on Carlsbad Medical Center in New Mexico, which has sued many more of its patients for unpaid medical bills than nearby hospitals; even the county judge who hears the cases was sued. In June, ProPublica published a story on Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Hospital in Memphis, which filed 8,300 lawsuits against patients in five years.
These hospitals are outliers in their communities, pursuing cases more aggressively than other hospitals do; some don’t file lawsuits against patients at all. These particularly aggressive hospitals are only known about because reporters have highlighted their practices. How many more of the 6,210 American hospitals are suing their patients? And, in turn, how many Americans have been sued by their hospitals? We don’t know, but it’s at least thousands.
We are, however, learning some of the stomach-churning details about these hospitals’ practices. The primary case documented in the UVA article involved Heather Waldron, who was sued over a $164,000 bill she received for emergency intestinal surgery. The article notes that figure is “more than twice what a commercial insurer would have paid for her care.” What relationship, then, does that charge have to what it actually cost UVA to provide Waldron’s care? We don’t know. The hospital probably doesn’t even know. It doesn’t have to tell anyone anything about how they came to this dollar amount in order to pursue her to the point where she has to sell her house and go on food stamps.
Last year, The Wall Street Journal reported on the case of a Wisconsin hospital that had actually attempted to determine the real cost of a knee surgery at its facility, for which the list price was more than $50,000. It turned out the answer was $10,500. The hospital had set the price nearly five times higher “using a combination of educated guesswork and a canny assessment of market opportunity,” according to the Journal.
Mere days after that report, Kaiser Health News reported on the case of Drew Calver, an Austin, Texas, man whose heart attack resulted in a bill of $164,941, which the billing experts at WellRithms told the reporter should have only cost around $26,985. No one is stopping this—except for Kaiser Health News reporters, whose efforts got Calver’s bill lowered to $332.
Though Medicare and Medicaid will only reimburse a set amount for each procedure, a hospital can charge private insurance—and patients—whatever it can get away with. The Congressional Budget Office found in 2017 that private insurance paid hospitals an average of 200 percent of what Medicare would pay, which is why the hospital lobby is so desperate to prevent any expansion of government-provided health insurance.
The Affordable Care Act protected more patients from this desperate situation insofar as it increased the number of people with insurance, and mandated coverage for preexisting conditions. But people with insurance routinely end up with massive medical bills, most horribly through the practice of “surprise billing,” where a patient goes to an in-network facility but sees an out-of-network doctor. (The expectation that patients in the middle of medical emergencies are supposed to diligently look up whether the emergency room is in-network is absurd enough, but there is almost nothing a patient can do to prevent an out-of-network doctor from treating them when they arrive.) Hospital groups are currently fighting legislation that would end this practice.
Because of this system, where hospitals set a potentially bogus list price and then negotiate from there with each insurance provider they accept, uninsured patients or those who get surprise bills get screwed. Those without insurance are expected to pay a lot more than their insurance would if they were insured, or if their insurance covered it. Patients are mere pawns in the games that hospitals play with insurance. (UVA offers a 20 percent discount for uninsured patients, but clearly prices can be inflated by much more than that discount would provide.) If a hospital has to pretend that a knee surgery costs five times what it does to get insurance to pay twice what it actually does, who cares if the odd patient gets sued into financial oblivion?
If you’re a poor patient who lied about having a preexisting condition when you signed up for your short-term health insurance plan—which, because short-term plans are not covered by the Affordable Care Act’s rules about what particular means of price-gouging insurance companies can engage in, is allowed to discriminate and charge more on the basis of preexisting conditions—you could be charged with fraud. Would UVA ever be charged with fraud for telling Heather Waldron she owed them $164,000 when the hospital would have accepted half that from insurance? Would anyone in the legal system that allowed them to garnish thousands of paychecks and seize people’s tax refunds ask them to prove that the charges themselves were not fraudulent?
We can keep letting hospitals use the state to immiserate its own citizens. But it will not stop uninsured people from needing care; American livers and lungs will keep resolutely ignoring their owners’ financial shortcomings. And when you have uninsured people seeking care, you will have to spend a lot of time and money figuring out how to pay for it.
A much simpler way would be to have the government pay for all health care—a “single payer” that covered everyone. That would help hospitals that don’t benefit from having large numbers of privately insured patients, like rural hospitals. But hospital CEOs who currently make a lot of money (even those at nonprofits; many large nonprofit hospital executives make multimillion dollar salaries) would not be helped. They would make a lot less money.
In America, corporations are warmly encouraged to put their foot in the state’s boot to stand on the neck of the poor, whenever that might be profitable. Landlords get judges to sign off on the civil arrest of tenants in pursuit of unpaid rent, plus that juicy lawyer’s fee and accumulated interest (for whatever reason interest must always accumulate). Stores like Walmart pursue shoppers who they have falsely accused of shoplifting for the value of the goods they didn’t steal. Debt collectors trick people into reviving their old debts that have fallen out of the statute of limitations, then sue them again.
There is a thread connecting stories like this with UVA’s outrageous pursuit of its indebted patients. Any arm of the state—the law, courts, Congress, the police—can act as a tool of any corporation organized and rich enough to use them. One patient in the UVA story, Zann Nelson, had entered the hospital “bleeding and in pain” with “newly diagnosed uterine cancer,” according to the story. She lost her court battle against UVA over its pursuit of her $23,849 bill, when a judge ruled that she had “the ability to decline the surgery.” What chance does the average person have against a system like this?
FAT BASTARD'S OP ED:
I was watching an episode of family guy when the question was asked, 'You are in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and a doctor. You have a gun and only two bullets. Who do you shoot? The family guy answered, "I'd shoot the doctor twice."
Hitler and his Nazis killed over 10 million. Stalin killed even more. America's Medical Mafia kill more Americans each year than were killed in all of the combat deaths in all of America's wars combined.
University Of Virginia's Hospital pays it employee shit wages.
FAT BASTARD'S OP ED:
I was watching an episode of family guy when the question was asked, 'You are in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and a doctor. You have a gun and only two bullets. Who do you shoot? The family guy answered, "I'd shoot the doctor twice."
Hitler and his Nazis killed over 10 million. Stalin killed even more. America's Medical Mafia kill more Americans each year than were killed in all of the combat deaths in all of America's wars combined.
University Of Virginia's Hospital pays it employee shit wages.
The piece of shit CEO Pamela Sutton Wallace get a salary of around $600,000 per year. This doesn't include her perks, kickbacks, bribes, and other compensation. This pig makes 15 times more than her employees.
Hospitals, drug companies, and doctors make money hand over fist.
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Old Crazy Pants Rudy Giuliani is Still a Member of NYS Bar Association. Why?
The following report is from the Sleazy Bastards News Site
Treasonous Rudy Giuliani Still a Member of NYS Bar Association. Why?
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I will begin with one of my famous fact based ego demolishing scumbag crushing blistering op eds. Rich people suck. There's no arguing that. Unless a moral and ethical person is very lucky or born into wealth they will never get rich. Rudy Giuliani's net worth is $45 million dollars. If you think obtained that through legal, moral and ethic means, then you need your ball cut off and crammed down you lie hole.
In spite of the fact that Giuliani is bat shit crazy, a pathological liar, a traitor, a racist, a likely pedophile, a serial cheating womanizer and the type of punk ass bitch that you would like to beat the crap out of the lowlife trash at the New York State Bar Association have yet to see fit to disbar Giuliani and revoke his law licence. Why is that? I will quote a line Joe Pesci used in the film Raging Bull after his brother Jake LaMotta was fucked over by the ringside judges when he asked, why they screwed him. His bother responded, "Because their mothers suck great big giant mother fucking elephant dick!" We know that in addition to sucking the dicks of foreign adversaries Giuliani, a Republican, and a member in good standing with the New York State Bar Association also sucks great big giant mother fucking elephant dicks.
Doing my due diligence as a reporter I contacted the NYSBA and sent them the following email. I let them know I would be roasting them in a article and to expect other media outlets to mirror my reporting and do their own investigating and op eds.
Maybe a better question should be, "Why would an organization whose role it is to police its members not toss out a lying, traitorous madman who has close ties to known pedophiles and America's adversaries?
Maybe a better question should be, "Why would an organization whose role it is to police its members not toss out a lying, traitorous madman who has close ties to known pedophiles and America's adversaries?
NYSBA knows that Giuliani is stark raving mad. NYSBA knows that Giuliani is a pathological liar. NYSBA knows that Giuliani is a chronic law breaker. NYSBA knows that Giuliani has long been involved in treasonous and criminal activity. Why is Rudolph Giuliani still a member of the NYSBA?
Ladies and gentlemen of the NYSBA.... START YOUR LIE HOLES!
NYSBA,
I'm a member of the independent media.
Does the NYSBA have an explanation for why Giuliani is still a member of NYS Bar Association? Has the NYSBA waived its cannon of ethics when it comes to profoundly mentally ill treasonous liars and unhinged madmen?
Why won't the NYSBA allow it's members to hold a vote to get remove this liar and traitor?
Scumbag F Lee Bailey was disbarred simply for theft and fraud aka doing his job as a lawyer. Isn't treason, misprision of treason and misprision of felony much worse than being a scumbag like F Lee Bailey? Then again, Trump buddy and pedophile Alan Dershowitz is a member in good standing with his bar association in spite of being a baby raper and traitor.
One more question. My parents were married when I was born. Can I still become a lawyer?
How can this be a first amendment issue? Is lying is protected speech? Is traitorous speech constitutional protected activity? Is conspiring with a foreign power to commit election fraud legal activity?
Do you lawyers think maybe it's time to start acting like decent patriotic Americans and remove this traitorous criminal.
I will be publishing an op ed on Sleazy Bastards regarding the inaction of NYSBA in dealing with this enemy of America. Mainstream media outlets often follow my lead. If I don't hear back from NYSBA I can only assume that NYSBA is complicit in Giuliani's crimes.
A naive person would ask, "How can you people sleep at night?" I know how. Sociopaths have no morals and cowards have no courage. That's how.
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UPDATE: It now seems that the the New York State Unified Court System has the power to sanction lawyers such as Rudy Giuliani who are in involved is criminal conduct or so I've been told by the NYS Bar Association. Below is their contact information.
- question@nycourts.gov
- New York State Unified Court System
25 Beaver Street
New York, NY 10004 - 1-800-COURTNY (1-800-268-7869)
Interpreter services are available for languages other than English.
TTY: Call 711 (nyrelay.com) Or sign up for Twitter Weather Alerts
I sent the following email to the New York State Unified Court System questioning them as to why they have not arrested Giuliani and tossed him in a cage where he belongs for his crimes and ethics violations.
NYS Unified Court System,
It is has been said that nobody is above the law. That would be nice if it were true. It seems that in spite of his public lying and traitorous acts and other criminal conduct Rudy Giuliani is probably guilty of many crimes and in violation of the cannons of ethics for a lawyer in NYS and any other state.
Given his crimes and other misconduct why does Rudolph Giuliani still have a licence to practice law in New York?
A. Because he's Rudy Giuliani
B. Because he's Donald Trump's consigliare.
C. Because he has a lot of dirt on a lot of people.
D. Because the NYS United Court System is a farce.
Why is he still have a law licence?
Why has he not been at least disciplined?
Are lawyers exempt from disciple for publicly lying? This is a yes or no question.
Are lawyers immune from prosecution for misprision of felony? This is a yes or no question.
Are lawyers immune from prosecution for misprision of treason. This is a yes or no question.
Is the reason Rudy Giuliani has not been arrested is because he has a net worth of $55 million and is therefore above the law? This is a yes or no question.
Are lawyers such as Rudy Giuliani with profound mental illness allowed to retain their law licences? This is a yes or no question.
Given the obvious criminal and unethical conduct of Rudy Giuliani for the past two decades, has the NYS United Court System handled the Rudy Giuliani situation in proper legal and ethical manner? This is a yes or no question.
Thank you.
Monday, September 23, 2019
Trump Supporters: Who They Are and What They Are
Dishonest - Treasonous - Poorly Educated - Easily Led - Immoral - Hypocritical - Vulgar - Deplorable - UnAmerican - Ignorant - Wrathful - Gluttonous - Envious - Slothful - Vengeful - Unpatriotic - Uncouth - Toxic - Dangerous - Obtuse - Stinky - Prideful - Losers - Sinful - Sluttish - UnChristian - Foolish - Deplorable - Revolting - Unhinged - Hateful - Paranoid - Ugly - Depraved - Stupid - Sub Human - Repugnant - Vulgar - Worthless - Dullards - Subversive - Weak Minded - Unthinking - Filthy - LOSERS!
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Trumper Tantrum or Tumpertantrum: What is a Trumper Tantrum
Trumper tantrums are not exclusive to Donald Trump, Trump supporters have Trumper Tantrums all the time. Like Trump, Trump supporters are immature children in fat adult bodies. They are every bit as depraved as Trump.
For those of you who don't know what a Trumper Tantrum or a Trumpertantrum is, here are some definitions from Urban Dictionary.
For those of you who don't know what a Trumper Tantrum or a Trumpertantrum is, here are some definitions from Urban Dictionary.
A housewife in Baltimore accused Ted Cruz of being a "liar and thief " for stealing credit for her published phrase "Trumper Tantrum", and turning it into Trumpertantrum. One unifying thing about Trump is that he can both ignite and unify the Republican Party in one big brawl.
A temper tantrum thrown by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in front of news cameras, usually accompanied by a lots of butthurt tweets.
When a grown man overhears something mean said about him, and proceeds to go on a poorly-articulated, juvenile rant on Twitter at 3am.
"Did you see that SNL said something mean about Emperor TinyHands McThinskin again?"
"I figured, there was another late-night Trumper Tantrum making the country look stupid again."
"I figured, there was another late-night Trumper Tantrum making the country look stupid again."
Trump: Ted Cruz can't run for president he was born in Canada.
Cruz: Donald stop with all these trumpertantrums you've been having.
Cruz: Donald stop with all these trumpertantrums you've been having.
the emotional outburst generated by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump when he has a setback or doesn't get his way. This happened when Fox refused to exclude Megyn Kelly as moderator for one of the Presidential Debates, and when he accused Ted Cruz of election-rigging after coming in second place for the Iowa Caucaus. This term was originally attributed to Ted Cruz and does raise some interesting questions regarding the emotional fitness of one candidate to be president. Let's face it, Trump has no emotional filters! How presidential is Trump? The term is a compound word pun on Donald Trump's last name ("Trumper" for "temper") and and "tantrum."
Linked Words: emotional, outburst, Republican, presidential, Iowa, caucus, Donald, Trump, candidate, filters
Linked Words: emotional, outburst, Republican, presidential, Iowa, caucus, Donald, Trump, candidate, filters
Any type of emotional outburst coming out of Donald Trump's mouth. The Origin of the word comes from Ted Cruz.
"Did you see the news? Donald Trump said Ted Cruz 'stole' Iowa Votes in the 2016 caucus!"
"Don't worry, It's just another one of Donald's trumpertantrum."
"Don't worry, It's just another one of Donald's trumpertantrum."
Trump’s New Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham Arrested For DUI
Trump Hires The WORST People
My op ed: Does this come as any surprise? The turn over in the Trump Whitehouse is unprecedented. Any competent person who started in the Trump Whitehouse either quit or was fired. Many of his others left in disgrace, were indicted for criminal activity or are in prison. Trump lies about everything and he lied about knowing and hiring the best people. The truth is, Trump has the worst people so is it any surprise that he would hire Stephanie Grisham, a drunk with a checkered past?
One more thing... Hey Trump supporters, FUCK YOU!
One more thing... Hey Trump supporters, FUCK YOU!
- White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham had a tumultuous rise to her prestigious role in US politics.
- Grisham faced allegations of ethical misconduct in previous jobs and was twice arrested for driving under the influence.
- One of the DUIs took place while Grisham worked as a press aide for Trump's 2016 campaign.
- Grisham has taken an unconventional approach to her White House post, and hasn't held a single on-camera briefing since she took over for Sarah Huckabee Sanders in early July.
- Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham had a "turbulent ascent" to her current role, according to a New York Times report, which included two arrests for driving under the influence — one of which while working for Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.
She was arrested for driving under the influence, speeding, and driving with an invalid license in 2013, according to the report, and the charges were later reduced to reckless driving. Grisham was also arrested for driving under the influence in December 2015, ultimately pleading guilty. She paid a fine and was ordered by the court into a treatment program.
Grisham told the Times she "complied with all sanctions and disclosed both episodes to the White House."
Grisham entered the political world by way of Arizona, working as a spokesperson for the attorney general in the state as well as Republicans in the state legislature. She also worked as a press aide on Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign for president.
Read more:21 people who have gone through the revolving door between Fox and the Trump administration
Prior to that, she worked for the AAA auto club in Arizona as well as the ad agency Mindspace.
Grisham reportedly left AAA after facing allegations of filing false claims for travel and other expenses and lost the job at Mindspace for plagiarism.
A spokesperson for AAA declined to discuss personnel matters with the Times, and the founder of the ad agency confirmed Grisham was a former employee but would not elaborate on the circumstances of her departure.
Grisham did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider.
Here's a brief summary of Grisham's experience in the political world:
- Grisham worked as a spokesperson for the Arizona Charter Schools Association from 2008 to mid-2010.
- She was a spokesperson for Tom Horne, Arizona's attorney general, in 2011.
- Grisham went on to work as a press aide for Mitt Romney in 2012, and in a 2017 interview said she was "devastated" for about a month after his loss in the presidential election.
- Grisham went back to Horne's office after 2012.
- During her work for Horne, he was under investigation for alleged campaign finance violations. When reporters from a local paper asked questions about it, Grisham characterized their requests as "overreaching, an invasion of privacy and abusive use of your role in the media."
- After Horne lost his bid for re-election (and was fined over the campaign finance case), Grisham went to work as a spokesperson for Arizona House's Republican majority.
Censoring Nazi!
- At one point, Grisham briefly revoked the press credentials of the The Arizona Capitol Times after it published a story on allegations the GOP House Speaker David Gowan traveled on the taxpayers' dime while campaigning for Congress.
- Grisham began working for Trump's campaign in mid-2015 as a press aide.
- Starting in 2017, Grisham initially served as White House deputy press secretary, but eventually moved on to become communications director for First Lady Melania Trump.
- In June 2019, it was announced Grisham would replace liar Sarah Huckabee Sanders as White House press secretary.
Grisham is a fierce defender of the Trumps, but also represents a break from the traditional mold of her prestigious role in the White House.
Grisham hasn't held an on-camera briefing since taking over in early July and does not appear particularly interested in engaging with members of the press.
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When it comes depravity, a lot of it is nature not nurture. Right wingers were born depraved. Donald Trump is depraved and so are his supporters. The tend to live in the Bible belt and the Bible belt is the most depraved part of the country.
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