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lmao. Did you forget who the President is?

Can't wait to see my first Sox game on my Christmas present TV.

Hi Cub fan.

Money is always the biggest factor. Like I said this whole mass payout thing is not accurate at all. That's why only poorly run homes will take them, because they need the money.

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That's the whole point. Almost every single home in a range of about 10 counties won't touch a patient who has this insurance even without a COIVD diagnosis. Now WITH COVID, there are even less that will take them. The misrepresentation of this has become some talking point on right wing news, but it isn't as easy as you think. This is why in the early stages NY state was forcing homes to take COVID patients because essentially none were going to be willing to do so. This so-called payout isn't any incentive, it is a disincentive as most facilities come out way behind unless they literally neglect patients.

Of all of this completely misunderstood items that have been repeated ad naseum during this crisis, you hit on a really big one. The whole idea that people are being diagnosed with COVID for profit is a complete misunderstanding of medicare/cade and how their billing works. First off, no one pays out based on diagnosis except Medicare/cade because they have a predetermined payment schedule that corresponds to illness instead of treatment. No other insurance does this. Private insurance and cash patients pay based on actual tests, procedures, and services rendered. So first off this ONLY applies to people on government services. #2, is that this total payout number is typically WAY less than what normal insurance payouts would be for the same amount of services rendered for the same requirements from an illness once you factor in what each service would cost individually. Because of this, A LOT of places refuse to take medicare/cade patients. Entire medical chains refuse to take patients with this insurance. My mom is a diagnosed dementia patient, and in a county of 100,000 people, there wasn't a single nursing home facility that would take her even before this. We ended up in the next county to find a facility for just her diagnosis. In fact there were a total of 2 within a two hour driving range in any direction in the state of Indiana. In fact the home my mom is in is refusing to take anyone who has COVID and wasn't already in their facility, so the reality is if you got COVID in this part of Indiana, you MIGHT have one facility that would take you if you have government insurance. This is also typical for doctors offices and non-emergency situations. Very few will take these patients because they actually get short changed for their services in the long run. So while the news story is that places are getting PAID to take COVID patients, the reality is the exactly opposite, and their options are incredibly limited.

It is in 40% of facilities nationwide, and not nearly as many took in these patients.

That hasn't been done for months, and it is still spreading.

And who do you think was bringing it to the nursing homes? How about those employees who get to go out into public where people aren't protecting themselves and each other? How about the contractors who deliver food and medical supplies to those facilities? How about the families who visit loved ones because someone told them this is just a hoax and only as bad as a normal flu? Long Term Care facilities are a great example of why stopping the spread on macro level is so important to stopping it on the mirco-level. It isn't just about protecting healthy people. It is about limiting the number of unhealthy people who are around people who can't psychically handle this illness. Every single extra exposure is a chance at a case. Every extra case is an extra chance at exposing an exponential number of people based on how public people feel safe to be around. Sure this might not be a big deal for you to catch. But if you don't care and catch it, there is a chance you expose the health care worker who works in the facility taking care of my mom. Every additional layer of people you introduce multiplies the odds of someone else catching this exponentialy.

See you next year!

With as many games as are going to be played in such a short amount of time, the pitching roster will be really interesting to try to configure, especially if Rodon is part of it. not sure that this means we will trade, as we are going to need a lot of arms.

There was some twitter chatter on this last night, the answer is yes.

To bump this thread, if you go to FanDuel right now, Baltimore, Detroit, KC, Miami, PIttsburgh, SF, and Seattle are all 500:1 for the World Series. You can get some pretty crazy flukes in a 60 game stretch and a 5 dollar bet would pay $2500. Colorado is 220:1 and Toronto is 100:1. FWIW the Sox are 33:1 still. I got them at 50:1 before they went all in for free agency. Sox are 16:1 to get to the World Series.

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I know they get paid if the opt out,, do they officially lose service time?

The problem is that it is also a near statistical certainty that we have been under-counting deaths as well. We know from comparing mortality numbers to historic mortality numbers, that there are a large number of deaths that we can't explain, in states that we know have had outbreaks. We also know that there are below average mortality rates in states where there haven't been outbreaks so the whole they are committing suicide trope isn't really working there either, otherwise they wouldn't be below normal. It is very clear in these studies that we are not getting the whole picture for COVID cases or deaths, and that is 100% what the government wants so it has the cover to send everyone back to the slaughter, oops I mean work.

The 2005 Astros also come to mind.

See you next year!

This has been hinted at in other discussions I have read on health. Basically the idea is just because we don't about them, doesn't mean that baseball players with underlying health conditions don't exist. In fact because aerobic fitness isn't a huge need in baseball, you are probably looking at a more "normal" distribution of health over the entire population. We know Jon Lester is a cancer survivor as is Rizzo. Those are the ones I know that could be potentially immunocompromised. I am sure there are others that I don't know about.

Yeah 0.3% is three thousandths or quite literally 3 in 1000.