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Comment: Re:Malaysia (Score 1) 154

by Adriax (#43211021) Attached to: ITU Aims At 20Mbps Broadband For All By 2020

Middle of the US: $50/month for 5meg cable, $60/month for 3meg DSL (clightly better coverage so they can force the people just past city limits to pay extra), or $20/month for 56k dialup (hasn't changed price or capabilities in over 15 years).

I wish I could say this small town atmosphere trades technological opportunity for safety, I really do. But we've had two incidents of crazies shooting at the cops and 3 murders within spitting distance of my house so far this year...

Comment: Re:Conspiracy! (Score 1) 659

by Adriax (#43122263) Attached to: Most Doctors Don't Think Patients Need Full Access To Med Records

Oye, really? Anyone who can read will understand 7 week preemie means 7 weeks early not 7 weeks old.
I'm sorry if I got your terms mixed up, but yeesh only an idiot would think a first trimester fetus was viable in any way.
I also have been informed of the viability range merely from being in the NBICU at that hospital. My girl's neighbors included a 31 week, a 29 week, and 2 25 week cuties. As scary as our situation was it really opened our eyes to how incredibly lucky we were to make it to that point.

That $17,000 bill is what the hospital sent us as a pre-insurance notification. We didn't have to pay a penny of it due to already meeting the $4000/year out of pocket max for my plan from two previous hospital visits at home. And yes, it covers ALL related bills from the hospital and it's staff about my wife's stay, unlike the local hospital which sent us the $18,000 bill followed by 2 identical amounts from a doctor and the nursing staff. The total for the local 1.5day stay, all combined, was really in the $50k range pre-insurance.
No it does not include the bill for my newborn's stay, which was somewhere in the $25k range pre-insurance. She was stronger than the doctors expected (weened off oxygen in hours instead of days, kept her body temp up without the heat bed after 2 days, had to force the nurses to continue feeding her by mouth when they wanted to keep using the nose tube because "You'll be here for months anyway so it's not worth the effort") and was out of there in just under 10 days herself. We spent almost 2 weeks away from home and I'm really thankful the mcdonald house charities exist.

Our local hospital, along with it's sister hospital 25 miles away, are the only ones for over 100 miles in any direction. They price gouge because they can and anyone who has worked there admits to it.

Comment: Re:Conspiracy! (Score 2, Insightful) 659

by Adriax (#43117473) Attached to: Most Doctors Don't Think Patients Need Full Access To Med Records

Price gouging...
Private hospital in tiny town: $18,000 for 36 hours in a womens health room with a straight saline drip, half of that bill was for the saline drip (billed as "IV therapy", it had no meds in it and was only there so they had a line open if needed)
Closest hospital equipped to deal with a 7 week preemie: $17,000 for 10 days stay total. Lifeflight, 3 days high risk pregnancy observation and blood pressure treatment, c-section, 7 days of recovery, and emergency hemorrhage treatment 2 days after the c-section

Even couple hour ER trips on the weekends where they just tell us "Sorry you're in blinding pain but I don't feel like doing anything, have some tylenol" result in multiple $5,000-10,000 bills from the hospital, doctor, nurses, oncall surgeon/anesthesia/radiology who wasn't even there and did noting.

Comment: Re:well still problem... (Score 1) 159

by Adriax (#42817919) Attached to: UK Court: MPAA Not Entitled To Profits From Piracy

They were going to err on the side of caution and only take 2x what was reported take in for the entire company.
A very conservative estimate I know, but they can't be completely sure of just how much that obviously irrevocably sinfully evil company full of thieves and pirates hid from their earnings report. Why one professional expert's very conservative estimate put the amount of piracy on the site equal to 10 billion USD a month, so they obviously made atleast that much and used terrorist money laundering tactics to hide it from the government.

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