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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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[–] [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.