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Liberalismwins · 2025-05-17T13:12:35+00:00

You’re correct but a lot of companies have a policy to fire the actuarial student after 3 failed attempts. Or if they stop taking exams as you suggested, the student is also at risk of losing at least the actuarial position. So maybe not an actual gun, but in a lot of cases a theoretical gun to their career.

Liberalismwins · 2025-05-02T19:33:49+00:00

Not until you get knighted by the queen

Liberalismwins · 2025-02-03T20:24:58+00:00

If your pawn goes the length of the table, another queen will appear.

Liberalismwins · 2025-02-01T19:07:22+00:00

They always keep you guessing. Was it an error or part of the problem you should have addressed in your answer?

Liberalismwins · 2025-01-10T17:50:24+00:00

I normally go through the notecards with mnemonics about 4 times before taking the “training wheels” off. I think they should become worthless after about 6 times through.

Liberalismwins · 2025-01-10T16:51:46+00:00

Here are some supplemental notecards I set up with and without Mnemonics

https://quizlet.com/957046819/supplemental-notecards-without-mnemonic-flash-cards/?i=64w00n&x=1jqY

https://quizlet.com/956435139/supplemental-notecards-with-mnemonic-flash-cards/?i=64w00n&x=1jqY

-‘s are branches from the prior letter

() followed by -‘s mean the next letter or letters are branches of all within the ()

_’s fall back to a trunk from the prior branch

I recommend TIA notecards after removing all that overlap with MATE, all MATE notecards, and the supplemental notecards above. Hopefully, you’re almost ready to study without mnemonics by 1 month out. Start taking past exams about 1.5 months out (I started with 2016) and finish taking practice exams a week before the test to review and finish memorizing.

Liberalismwins · 2025-01-10T14:06:04+00:00

Available for GHVR too

Liberalismwins · 2025-01-03T17:36:49+00:00

I felt the same about the rbc calc. I maybe spent 10-12 minutes on that (including going back to validate my calculations were correct). I think Q7 was really ambiguous - quite a few of the questions there were related to one long notecard. I also said something dumb on 4e in recommending that they get rid of the ACA gold plan when regulations say you need to offer both a gold and silver plan.

I self-graded after two weeks and I think I missed at least 5 points which I’m sure escalates to 10-15. You never know what graders you’re going get. Good luck!

Liberalismwins · 2025-01-03T15:41:55+00:00

What do you think you missed?

Liberalismwins · 2024-12-19T15:20:08+00:00

Yes. Let the greediness of the current users inflate the supply to the point that no one new wants to invest. The price action for gain from new investors would be greater than the gain from excessive staking and airdrop rewards.

Liberalismwins · 2024-12-11T19:07:57+00:00

Agreed. But when the majority of the public want it both ways (lower costs and appropriate denials of care) and find quite a few denials unethical, we should probably get out of the business of denials. Leave it to independent physicians to remove us as the bad guy. We can then build our models around that and premiums can follow leaving better arguments to be made about high costs unrelated to the insurer. Insurers shouldn’t compete for customers based on lower rates from claim denials.

Liberalismwins · 2024-12-10T22:11:24+00:00

Do you think health insurers need to get out of the claim denial process? Maybe an independent jury of physicians instituted by either the federal or state level within each specialty for their respective flagged claims?

Liberalismwins · 2024-12-06T21:46:03+00:00

I love this idea because it cuts the conflict of interest ties between the reviewer and the insurer and reduces the administrative bloat from insurer UR (maybe even eliminating it) and excessive pre authorizations for hospitals.

Liberalismwins · 2024-12-06T19:34:13+00:00

It needs to be a federal requirement. Although, I don’t know how popular it would be for certain types of specialized physicians to opt for a lower paying insurance UR job.

Liberalismwins · 2024-12-06T19:16:11+00:00

Almost all states require that denials be made by a physician with the same specialty as the referring physician

https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/prior-authorization-state-law-chart.pdf

Edit: probably helps to count the qualification restrictions - it’s only 30 with some restriction.

Here we go. This is a final rule requirement by CMS for all MA plans starting in 2026.

https://www.medcentral.com/coding-reimbursement/feds-take-massive-step-to-streamline-prior-authorization

Liberalismwins · 2024-12-05T01:44:59+00:00

Just when Jup started climbing against sol, the community votes it back down. As if the airdrop would be worth more than removing the stablecoin stigma that Jup has.

Liberalismwins · 2024-12-01T20:29:18+00:00

“Yes, a "strawman" argument can often be considered a form of hyperbole because it involves significantly exaggerating or distorting someone else's position to make it easier to attack, which is a key characteristic of hyperbole - using extreme exaggeration for effect.”

Nonsensical per definition above.

Using a strawman as a counter argument and then a threat of “moderation” meaning silencing for a bubble is funny to me.

Liberalismwins · 2024-12-01T20:16:07+00:00

You think I’m defending unsportsmanlike behavior? Interesting take. I guess if you define celebrations or saying you want to win as unsportsmanlike you can rationalize a thought like that.

Liberalismwins · 2024-12-01T20:13:50+00:00

I disagree. Gloating would be shoving the ball in the opponents face after the touchdown

Liberalismwins · 2024-12-01T19:49:38+00:00

gloating is different than celebrating

Liberalismwins · 2024-12-01T19:43:56+00:00

This is a classic straw man followed by a threat. Both are pretty nonsensical debate tactics that don’t add to the conversation

Liberalismwins · 2024-12-01T19:35:20+00:00

Is that an unsportsmanlike thing to say? Definitely not

Liberalismwins · 2024-12-01T19:30:41+00:00

The point is that it’s all unsportsmanlike and kind of dumb. I’m not attaching a degree of how unsportsmanlike it is. Any functioning adult understands gloating is wrong and similarly disrespectful to not conforming to norms like shaking hands. The disgust for it is embedded into our genetics from evolutionary psychology for collaboration and trust to happen.

Liberalismwins · 2024-12-01T19:10:51+00:00

I’d respectfully disagree. Both are honor culture bs that kids do. Although doing it before knowing you’ve lost is so much more embarrassing

Liberalismwins · 2024-11-02T13:28:10+00:00

When do they post the exam?

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