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‘Make your health insurance company cry’: One woman’s fight to turn the tables on insurers (sfstandard.com)

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"... The “dirty secret” of the insurance industry is that most denials can be successfully appealed..."

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[–] skeezix 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

In an ideal ~~world~~ country, we would have a different system, but we don’t live in an ideal ~~world~~ country, so what I’m shooting for here is incremental progress and making the ~~world~~ country suck a little less,”.

It’s a good article. Don’t let that American exceptionalism creep into it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

my brother in christ, "in an ideal world" this string is a fucking turn of phrase.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The turn of phrase refers to things that are natural facts, human nature, stuff like that. This one isn’t any of those things, it’s weird to use it to refer to something specific to one country or place.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

"a way of saying or describing something"

hmm.

"Rather, Washington’s national security establishment has unthinkingly internalized a Trump-era turn of phrase that is rife with unrealistic expectations and unvetted assumptions."

hmmmm.