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  • Well yes but actually no. That would only be appropriate after an investigation is complete and charges are filed. And prosecutors are pretty limited in what they’re allowed to say publicly even after that.

    I know Trump’s justice dept has screwed up a few prosecutions by making dumb public statements.

    Attacking James directly is a media strategy rather than a legal one I suspect.





  • Yesterday I finished the book “Babylon South Dakota”. Geller and Angela Collier had done a “book chat” about it, but I skipped the video until I had read it.

    So I’m looking for this video yesterday and it’s not on Collier’s book channel. Weird, so I check her science channel. No good either. So I check Geller’s channel. (this is on Nebula, not YT) And Geller is gone, no videos by him at all. I thought, did Jacob Geller get canceled?

    This is how I found out that Geller had been canceled.



  • Trump aside, this is good. Healthcare prices are intentionally obscure and inaccurate in the US.

    For any given procedure or equipment, the manufacturer/provider will have a price called the “billed amount”. This is a fictional number that serves as a negotiating position. The insurance company has an “allowable” which is what they’ve negotiated with providers to actually pay. Every year the insurance companies and medical providers negotiate on the actual price. So providers are incentivized to inflate their costs in hopes of getting a better deal.

    Usually, the difference between the billed and the allowable vanishes. But the patient may be on the hook, depending on circumstances. I know people with decades of experience in the industry who still get confused and struggle dealing with insurers.

    The moral of the story is that if you ever have to pay medical costs out of pocket, the first thing you should do is ask to reduce the prices from the fictional and inflated “billable” down to an “allowable” amount, usually using Medicare’s allowable as a standard.