Ben

Ben

@blerms.bsky.social

Penn State and pretzels, what more could you ask for?

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132 cookies, 40 pretzel reindeer, and 30 pretzel sleds later: everyone working in the hospital today gets some sweets from Santa today

Several data-backed ways to refute this article, including rising insurance profits and the (directly related!) increase of healthcare admin salaries. But the easiest way to refute it is to say: it’s a facetious attempt at defending an insurance company’s ploy at making money at the cost of patients

Eric Levitz@ericlevitz.bsky.social

A populist uproar forced Anthem to back off imposing cost controls on anesthesiologists. That is bad, and illustrative of why healthcare is so expensive in the United States. www.vox.com/policy/39003...

Last time Penn State football won the Big Ten, Trump took office Last time Penn State basketball was Real Good, the pandemic cancelled the rest of the season

Michael Weinreb@michaelweinreb.com

The world is going to hell just as Penn State has a legitimately good basketball team so I’m torn

Have been informed about someone from my hometown who believes (is writing a book!) that the entire sinking of the titanic was actually an assassination on someone (one guy!) who was coming over to expose a sex trafficking ring.

Finding out simultaneously that it’s both expensive to get Freon to refill your AC and that it’s expensive to buy a new AC. Anyways I’m enjoying owning a home.

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