A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
And Scotland has a different (higher) income tax rate than the rest of the UK
Insurance company CEO assassinated in New York
- Thread starter Spymaster
- Start date
moochedit
I'm not feeding seagulls
I haven't done the maths but i am pretty sure my taxes are still less than Yuwipi Woman 's health insurence. Think my tax and ni are about £400 ish a month and £100 for the council tax. Vat is a bit harder to work out.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I don’t count VAT as tax, just cos it’s invisible to my economically-illiterate mind. 
moochedit
I'm not feeding seagulls
That is the idea of it i think.I don’t count VAT as tax, just cos it’s invisible to my economically-illiterate mind.
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
My National Insurance, Tax, Teachers Pension, and student loan repayment combined is lower that her insurance.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Yes, there will be, but as you say, it will be a minority. Top 10% perhaps? Top 20% have household incomes over $100,000 but even at that level, if you have a couple of kids and a couple of serious health conditions in the family, you may be struggling in the US and better off in the UK.
Unsurprisingly, privatised healthcare is really a mechanism for funnelling wealth and benefits towards the very richest.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
I know some of you'all don't like videos. I'm going to post this anyway and if you don't care for it, you don't have to watch it.
This is a rant posted three years ago by the doctor who was exhausted from both Covid and United Heathcare's abuses. It's aged like fine wine. He talks about the harassment United Healthcare does to avoid paying providers. They have him look up notes on 500 past patients that they claimed the doctor was either not due payment or was overpaid for payment. He looked all of this up, sent it to them, and it was "lost." He sent it again. "Lost" again. They keep coming back at him claiming he owe them money for overpayments. At first it was $1.2 million, then $500,000, then $250,000. He ended up hiring a lawyer and spent $30,000 dealing with it.
I thought the way United Heathcare dealt with me was bad, but harassing providers like this is worse. Basically, they work both ends to avoid payment. They harass doctors to get them to give up trying to get payment, and they harass patients with denial of claims. It's no wonder people end up in health food stores looking for a solution to their health problems. Or, go to farm store for animal medications. I've done it myself when I found the system unworkable.
This is a rant posted three years ago by the doctor who was exhausted from both Covid and United Heathcare's abuses. It's aged like fine wine. He talks about the harassment United Healthcare does to avoid paying providers. They have him look up notes on 500 past patients that they claimed the doctor was either not due payment or was overpaid for payment. He looked all of this up, sent it to them, and it was "lost." He sent it again. "Lost" again. They keep coming back at him claiming he owe them money for overpayments. At first it was $1.2 million, then $500,000, then $250,000. He ended up hiring a lawyer and spent $30,000 dealing with it.
I thought the way United Heathcare dealt with me was bad, but harassing providers like this is worse. Basically, they work both ends to avoid payment. They harass doctors to get them to give up trying to get payment, and they harass patients with denial of claims. It's no wonder people end up in health food stores looking for a solution to their health problems. Or, go to farm store for animal medications. I've done it myself when I found the system unworkable.
Last edited:
cupid_stunt
Merry fecking Christmas.
I would recommend watching that video, that is shocking! 
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
I have a sneaky feeling that might be a wind up
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
Maybe don't do it if your American.I would recommend watching that video, that is shocking!
The things it will do to your blood pressure will be expensive.
moochedit
I'm not feeding seagulls
It's because it the usa, the sales tax rate varies by state/city. It's confusing/annoying to visting brits though.
dylanredefined
Not a house elf a tiger
Worked in American healthcare insurance would do crazy things. Every patient had to have iv access or a drip in uk terminology. Or insurance wouldn't cover stay. So everyone got a drip and bags of saline they didn't need.
It was another layer of bureaucracy that had to be worked round.
It was another layer of bureaucracy that had to be worked round.
moochedit
I'm not feeding seagulls
Why? Wouldn't that cost them extra?
dylanredefined
Not a house elf a tiger
Yes ,it made no sense to anyone yet you put the iv access device in and flushed it 3 times a day because insurance company wanted it done. Utterly ridiculous. Happily put a terminally ill patient on a ventilator as they could charge thousands a day. It was wasteful and petty at times.
At least it wasn't socialised medicine what ever that was.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
The apparent gleeful reaction to the shooting by some in America is a bit of a coda to the election. I don't mean anything as simple as the Dems would have won if they'd promised an NHS, but there's real anger out there and real lived experiences of vile companies like United.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
There is now a Bluesky account although I suspect it may not actually be him.
bsky.app
CEO Assassin (@ceoassassin.bsky.social)
Also known as Robin Hoodie I like to flirt, and play Monopoly with CEOs and the Police
bsky.app
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
There is now a Bluesky account although I suspect it may not actually be him.
CEO Assassin (@ceoassassin.bsky.social)
Also known as Robin Hoodie I like to flirt, and play Monopoly with CEOs and the Police
He's given away he's not Capricorn. Major mistake, that gives the FBI New Age Spiritualist Special Programmes Operatives a head start.
gosub
~#
There is now a Bluesky account although I suspect it may not actually be him.
CEO Assassin (@ceoassassin.bsky.social)
Also known as Robin Hoodie I like to flirt, and play Monopoly with CEOs and the Police
Wearside Jack got 8years.
Just saying.
Happy Tree
maagilises metsas
He's called The Adjuster. Someone even gave him a logo.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
There's a thing about VAT treatment and potatoes. I remember having a conversation with someone who knew the ins and outs of it all, but iirc, potato crisps are VAT-able. That's why some of the snacks like vegetable crisps, when you buy a packet of parsnip and beetroot 'crisps', they won't contain potatoes, it will be anything and everything but potatoes, because the VAT treatment for potatoes is different to other root vegetables when turned into crisps. Or something like that.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
That makes sense. Well as much as anything to do with VAT makes sense.
I was looking at some lentil crisps on the shelf the other day, pondering their merits and wondering why they were cheaper than the potato crisps made by the same company.
moochedit
I'm not feeding seagulls
Sounds like a bad 80s action flick
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
He's gonna be getting so many offers of money, all sorts of contacts, places to stay, work (lol), marriage proposals, the lot.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
Payment for the job.
Zapp Brannigan
Built like a steakhouse, handles like a bistro
It's looking like a professional assassin with a family member recently turned down for medical treatment by the callous insurance company. Pro-bono work if you will.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
He certainly knew what he was doing in the shooting and in evading capture since. Same time, he's been a bit sloppy letting pretty much his full face get filmed and it was very risky (to him) carrying out the hit on a New York street. Maybe personally motivated, as you say, to the point where the act was more important than fears of getting caught.
Similar threads
