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by willis936 748 days ago
Would the healthcare providers pay that wage? Quietly paying the protection money gives them incentive to charge more.
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But it does not change the fact that you have already wasted a day of your life on this quixotic effort. Along with the months of agitation and aggravation and irritation and anger as this issue percolates 24/7 in the background.
That’s the infuriating thing about it. I suspect the fear of these unexpected parasitic charges in US healthcare is a contributing reason to men’s life expectancy only being 73.5 years.