Hospitals give a fuck. Its like the only privacy law that is enforced and enforced well.
Fines are high and people lose jobs over HIPAA violations.
Texas can tell them to violate it but doubtful they would be successful unless they are willing to foot $$$ on behalf of the hospital. Also, likely goes against hospital mission, values, etc.
Been on a mystery kick lately too. Not much time to physically read so all audiobooks here. Recently finished "Holly" by Stephen King and "Listen for the Lie" by Amy Tintera. Both are great as audiobooks!
Tomorrow, I'm completing "Tell the Machine Good Night" by Katie Williams (SciFi... Just okay ". After I'm excited to move onto "Dungeon Crawler Carl". I heard from many its one of best audiobooks ever!
I work with a lot of healthcare vendors outside the hospital. Some of them could not get authorizations, access to their orders like medical equipment, etc. Our "e fax" was down. All medical faxing. Fortunately, everyone was understanding and we made agreements to give patients what they needed for their health and all our vendors got authorizations from insurance after the fact.... All but one dumb equipment company.
I think Mark Cuban was primarily Republican until Trump. If you google, there have been many comments hes made against Trump because he knows Trump is a trash leader
This is me too. I oddly have like 3 cups of water every day and have been fine. No abnormal labs or anything. Only drink when I am thirsty. Only increases in hot weather or exercise.
The Long Way to A Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers. Very easy to get into.
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High is my go to. However there are so many other books that teach you how to connect with others.
To qualify for a wheelchair under American insurance, you have to be unsafe to use a walker or cane for mobility, be primarily wheelchair bound (need person to help transfer you or have enough upper body to transfer yourself), etc. Most patients I think of that I discharge with a wheelchair would not be able to use this device...
For those that can use something like this, there are so many micro mobility things out there. As someone pointed out recumbent bicycles already exist.
Dirty!! They just presented their services to our hospital too and were excited that our patients were going to have their nutritional needs met.... Obviously not....will share this with hospital teams to have them further assess before using these services
Understood. I honestly don't know many alternatives to Redbox besides those for renting movies... Even then, as others have mentioned, there's a difference between streaming and playing a blu ray. All movies I rent are <$2.50 from Redbox, nicer quality vs. >$5 Amazon.
Personally a little sad over this. Have a bluray player and sometimes I want to be able to choose and pick a newer movie in 4k... Much cheaper than Amazon and Vudu to rent.
My husband has specifically asked me not to talk to him about politics. He has verbalized he feels powerless and wants to focus on things he can control more within his immediate realm (dont worry guys, he's still voting Biden). He's also asked me to decrease the amount of depressing topics I share with him overall.
I did tell him I recommend him read up on it because its "scary AF" and that I was quite scared
However, I do agree with other posters that its the lack of news coverage on the topic is why so many people are uninformed. We need more individuals to share and educate about this.
I have a credit union and unfortunately a Chase account now. I had to open a banking account with First Republic to refinance my student loans from 6.7% to 2.75%. They were the only ones that took on high student loans (lot of medical professionals) and required a constant $20k in the bank.
Once my loans are done in a few months though, I am moving everything back to m y credit union and closing Chase.
To speak to some others like my in laws, husband, and my own parents, likely plus a few friends:
They believe that banks offer more services and even more security than a local credit union (ironically my FIL is board member of a credit union but banks with a bank)
Like that there tends to be brick and mortar locations nationwide
Dont know any better (this is most people I believe, unfortunately financial literacy in US is low. Lemmy is not representative of general pop)
Hi! Apologies. Other people were naming other potential candidates without further justification so I didn't think I need to.
Pete is young, intelligent and very reasonable. Back when he was running in 2020 and when I was doing my own research I found that our political views aligned the most. He is young and white so he has that going for him if looking for general appeal lol
I currently have Newsom as governor and while he did a great job with the pandemic and healthcare policy in general (I was on calls with his team and many other hospital systems), I hate how he protects corporate donors like PGE. Overall though he signs many good bills into law. I'm just concerned he can be bought and he's more of a corporate ally than he gives off.
With the media coverage I didn't state whether or not it would be successful. I'm not even sure if we should change at this point because there's a lot that goes into that transition (voters need time to know candidates, campaign ads and efforts likely planned out until November, etc). All I said is they can likely pick anyone and there would be significant media coverage. DNC nominates X! Then many articles around who is X! Again, I'm voting any way to defeat Trump.
Hospitals give a fuck. Its like the only privacy law that is enforced and enforced well. Fines are high and people lose jobs over HIPAA violations.
Texas can tell them to violate it but doubtful they would be successful unless they are willing to foot $$$ on behalf of the hospital. Also, likely goes against hospital mission, values, etc.