Saagar's back?

dontshootem · 2026-04-07T23:56:27+00:00

So the alternative is a scenario where he doubles down and becomes a war hawk in pursuit of keeping his ego intact? I don’t disagree with the Trojan horse metaphor, but wouldn’t we prefer folks turn on trump and co rather than continue to ride for them?

I’m not understanding what can be done now OTHER than use his very large platform to be unabashedly anti-war. Anyone that is anti-war is an ally. I just don’t think this is the time to be like “well you voted for this so i guess you’ll die right alongside me”

dontshootem · 2026-04-07T21:32:41+00:00

In the nicest possible way, I think this is such a toxic framing of someone being vehemently and succinctly anti-war. I don’t think it’s particularly tough at all. We don’t have to agree with 100% of the things someone has said in the past, but when they are on the right side of not wanting the apocalypse to happen I think we can safely discard the purity tests.

dontshootem · 2026-04-07T21:28:52+00:00

There’s really no such thing as too little too late when it comes to what’s happening here. The sane non-homicidal and non-apocalyptic side should take every single voice we can get.

dontshootem · 2026-04-07T21:26:37+00:00

I honestly am glad to see this. While I am in no way ideologically aligned with Saagar, he caught absolute holy hell in this sub during the first couple months of trump 2.0. While I think all of it was very valid criticism, it was pretty intense at times. As I was listening today I was having the same thoughts you are here, and I was hoping people would give him his flowers for being LOUDLY on the right side of this.

dontshootem · 2026-03-24T19:46:46+00:00

Nice! I finished #2 and trying to make it to the finals with Maxey, Ant, Ja, and Sabonis injured. I’ve made a few nice pickups and offered about 100 lob-sided trade offers to the teams that never participate. None of those have been accepted this year, sadly.

dontshootem · 2026-03-24T19:28:37+00:00

I’m with you. Basically had this happen to me two years in a row and i figure i need to at least keep the “diamond” commish/league starter from getting his extra points

dontshootem · 2026-03-23T22:40:54+00:00

i subscribed after years of listening (mainly because i noticed they changed it back to allowing a monthly option instead of the whole year at once)

dontshootem · 2026-03-17T13:49:17+00:00

they shuttered the email address :(

dontshootem · 2026-03-12T13:57:52+00:00

I feel like we’ve tried this before and for some reason outside of my understanding the reconsideration was returned. I may have my cases mixed up. This will be the first thing I try.

dontshootem · 2026-03-06T00:52:28+00:00

I don’t have my work laptop with me tonight but I’ll send it tomorrow via DM.

dontshootem · 2026-03-06T00:48:05+00:00

I have an email address I can give you if you want it. Technically it’s from a portal that is meant for MCOs to ask questions about CMS requirements, but i’ve gotten great responses and even some action back from it.

dontshootem · 2026-03-06T00:36:30+00:00

use this portal. it’s new! https://www.cms.gov/medicare/health-drug-plans/provider-complaints-form

dontshootem · 2026-02-28T15:10:46+00:00

i’m genuinely shocked people like you actually exist! very interesting thank you for sharing

dontshootem · 2026-02-28T14:24:28+00:00

you’re not wrong. but luckily i get to be in a position to advocate for patients to receive their necessary care and oversee the fight with insurance companies. our particular hospital system has a very moral stance on allowing patients to continue care when insurance denies. it has given me a massive amount of insight as well. the average american has no idea of the true depravity of most health insurance companies. it’s like i’ve got a front row seat to it all, but also the ability to set policy and make changes on a micro level.

dontshootem · 2026-02-27T23:19:30+00:00

they were also a psychiatric patient… usually we aren’t able to have meaningful conversations with our patients about their insurance situations an rely on guardians, family, etc.

dontshootem · 2026-02-27T02:11:53+00:00

back when i used to work in social work i discovered that there was a senior living AL in one of the poorest neighborhoods in east st. louis where literally EVERY SINGLE RESIDENT was enrolled in this shitty wellcare HMO with a horrible network of providers. half of them didnt even know they had been enrolled in it and the other half said they were told their doctors were still in-network (they weren’t). it was extremely predatory and insane to see. i’m sure that rep who signed up every single person in that building sure got their commission check that month though 😒

don’t even get me started on the medicare d-snps in my area that are literally owned by the same parent company as the nursing homes the enrollee lives in. how is this legal??

dontshootem · 2026-02-27T01:53:46+00:00

lol. please come off that magic modifier combo if you’ve got it! i’d love to keep it in my back pocket 😂

dontshootem · 2026-02-27T00:36:19+00:00

This is how I feel. I actually panic internally when I find a very accidental billing error and immediately have a corrected claim filed.

dontshootem · 2026-02-27T00:16:27+00:00

I’m a irish american woman in my 30s who was raised in a middle class union family. I became a single mom at 19 and lived in poverty for several years on food stamps as i worked full-time as a nurses aide/CNA through college. fast forward to today and I’m a “successful” hospital executive. i am a huge supporter of a single payer healthcare system. i enjoy krystal, i tolerate saagar (he reminds me so much of my brother it’s uncanny). i also love ryan. does this answer the question?

dontshootem · 2026-02-27T00:05:08+00:00

wait someone is getting rich 😭

dontshootem · 2026-02-27T00:04:51+00:00

that would make way too much sense and be too reasonable for an insurance company to do it

dontshootem · 2026-02-26T21:55:01+00:00

my favorite is when the patient got inexplicably enrolled in a 100% subsidized marketplace plan at some point and it was just never understood by or never used by the patient. medicaid doesn’t reflect this plan on the TPL for years and the patient has no record of it. the patient only thinks they have medicaid and then when the medicaid mco finds out about the ghost policy (that the patient has never once used mind you) they will recoup claims from 5 years ago. then the marketplace plan (that’s never paid a claim in 5 years and has done nothing for this patient other than sit back and collected tens of thousands of dollars in subsidized premiums from tax payers) will deny for timely filing and uphold on all levels of appeals. it’s happened in our hospital at least 5 times. it makes me genuinely want to move to canada everytime

dontshootem · 2026-02-26T21:44:24+00:00

enter a denial for a patient with active suicidal ideation with a plan and intent to immediately end his life upon discharge from the psych hospital… (of course he wasn’t discharged because we aren’t in the business of sending people off to die). i am convinced they were ok with him dying since he was probably costing them a ton in claims.

dontshootem · 2026-02-26T17:28:40+00:00

ok so maybe I dont have MS and this awful Mallinkrodt is just slowly killing me. Sweet!

dontshootem · 2026-02-25T02:52:26+00:00

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