don’t just pay it. do not automatically pay the hospital bill when you receive it. call your health insurance provider and POLITELY say, “excuse me, i just received a bill for $1200 for my hospital visit/ER visit/etc., is that the correct amount i’m supposed to pay?” because hospitals bill you before your health insurance and they will take your money no matter how the amount due may change based on your health insurance looking at it. 90% of the time, if your health insurance is in any way involved in the payment of that bill, you do not have to pay as much as the hospital is billing you for. call your health insurance provider first, and POLITELY request clarification, always remember that the person you are talking to is human and this is just their job, and then you will very likely find out you actually only owe $500.
don’t shout at anyone about it, don’t get mad, just understand that this is The Way Things Are right now and call your health insurance provider before paying the bill your hospital just sent you. there’s a chance the hospital bill might be correct, true, but call your health insurance provider.
THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT. after my car accident last year the hospital billed me ~$8000. They sent me letters asking me to pay, and I called them back saying my insurance was processing the claim. This is also what I told the collection agency when they kept calling me about the $1000 emergency room fee (billed separately from the hospital fee, mind you). Once everything got straightened out, all I was actually liable for was my $200 emergency copay.
!!!!!!! things my ass didn’t know !!!!!!!!
Yes this is a life lesson my adulting ass didn’t know I needed and I’m out 80 bucks for an anti-nausea pill. 😒😒😒😒😒
Reblogging for American friends.
Also, it is important [for people receiving medical care in the USA] to carefully read all of the items on the medical bill and look for errors and overcharges. I know that the normal feelings of avoidance and dread can make it hard to look at scary hospital bills, and that’s okay! But as the OP mentions, private orgs like hospitals don’t monitor overpayment of bills – they are motivated to charge you extra – and it is basically impossible to get your money back. Read the bill carefully and make sure that the charges are correct, using the links below for help if you need. If they haven’t sent you an itemized list, you can ask for one. Sometimes you will be charged extra for items or treatment you didn’t receive. Most people don’t know that you can dispute medical bills! But in 2009, Consumer Reports stated that 8 out of 10 medical bills scrutinized by a watchdog had errors, and generally you are not obligated to pay for someone else’s error.
You may be charged for using medication that you actually brought into the hospital with you – that’s easy to dispute! You may be charged for the consumables used during your stay such as sheets, gloves, gowns, etc – the hospital should actually cover that under its running budget. You may be charged for a brand name drug if the generic was available for cheaper – the links below explain how and when you can dispute this. You may be charged a surprisingly expensive “oral administration fee” (where a nurse puts pills for you to take in a little clean paper cup and then hands it to you) but that’s worth disputing if you were actually able to take the pill out of a bottle and put it in your own mouth. And so on.
– She likes picking flower and giving them to her dad causes she loves him.
– She likes babies and playing with kids.
– She makes friends with ANYBODY.
– She used to swing her doll around when forced to eat vegetables.
– She gets sad when she thinks about Bran being sad and misses playing with her baby brother Rickon.
– She talks too fast when she gets excited. (Ex. When talking about her old brother Jon)
– She swims like a fish.
– She gets sad when thinks her wolf puppy Nymeria not liking her anymore.
– And she put someone on her hate list cause he stole best friend’s favorite helmet.
– She adopted some random baby at 9 just cause she was scared.
– First thing we hear about her: “Arya is already in love…”
– Causing a “scandal” she names her direwolf after the amazing Rhoynar princess who saved her people by leading them to safety in Dorne, united them as one people, ruled for years as an equal to her husbands and heirs, all while defeating six kings and sending them to the Wall, quelling rebellions, fighting off assassins, and forging Dorne into what it is today
– “The woman is important, too!”
– She threatens to shoe a horse because her Septa says she has hands like a blacksmith’s
– She calls fireflies “lantern bugs” like Aegon the Unlikely in the Dunk and Egg novellas
– She punched Jon for scaring baby Bran when he dressed up like a ghost in the crypts. Then they all laughed about it
– She felt bad that the fleas in her clothes would die when she washed them
– She loves Hodor and Old Nan dearly and is excited to see them again when they have to leave KL
– She misses Hodor’s laughter and Old Nan’s stories and uses them to help guide her on her travels
– She trains Nymeria to fetch things to help her pack faster
– Showering kisses on Jon when he gave her Needle before he left and, “The memory of her laughter warmed him on the long ride north.”
– She fires off a thousand questions when she’s interested in something
– She turns her bullies into friends on the road
– She loves talking and listening to all kinds of people regardless of class
– “You in there?” “No!” she shouted.
– She growls and kicks in her sleep like a puppy when she’s having wolf dreams
– She befriends and defends Mycah even though her sister disparages him for being a butcher’s son
– She water dances in the branches of Heart Tree at Harrenhal
– She feels so bad about sending Nymeria away even though it’s to save her life. And she hopes Nymeria makes friends with other wolves so she won’t be alone
– She’s captain of the S.S. NedCat and gets very defensive when it’s suggested that her father could have loved anyone else
– “Jon Snow had given her Needle. Maybe she had to let them call her Lumpyhead, but she wasn’t going to let them call Jon a thief.“
– She got a flippershake from the King of the Seals
– She caught and kissed Balerion the cat right between the eyes
– She totally ogles shirtless Gendry while he’s working in the forge
– Hunts and scavenges to feed others even when all she has to offer are bugs
– After Hot Pie keeps going on and on about yielding to anyone who finds them: “What if the wolves come?” “Yield.” A+ sarcasm
– She saves Sam in Braavos and offers him food which Jon would be super proud of
– She doesn’t want to cry but cries a lot
– She bickers with Gendry over which direction moss grows in like an old married couple
– She misses Brusco and his daughters and the girls at the Happy Port when she’s no longer pretending to be Cat
– She is constantly trying to protect her pack even though she’s 9-11 and tiny
– She got on a horse so she could be taller than Gendry during an argument
– She worries that a heart tree might be in pain because of it’s anguished face
– She thinks about how Hot Pie would like Braavos because of the good food
– “She would not betray Jon, not even to their father.“
– “Arya had loved nothing better than to sit at her father’s table and
listen to them talk. She had loved listening to the men on the benches
too; to freeriders tough as leather, courtly knights and bold young
squires, grizzled old men-at-arms. She used to throw snowballs at them
and help them steal pies from the kitchen. Their wives gave her scones
and she invented names for their babies and played monsters-and-maidens
and hide-the-treasure and come-into-my-castle with their children. Fat
Tom used to call her “Arya Underfoot,” because he said that was where she always was. She’d liked that a lot better than “Arya Horseface.”
– Ultimate wolves and girls aesthetic
This is just off the top of my head. I could seriously be here all day.
Article 13 is going into it’s final stages of voting.
If this gets through, it will allow many, many companies to abuse and misuse this article to take down as many memes, fan works, and even other independent creators on sites like YouTube, Facebook, and other websites INCLUDING Tumblr.
THE FAIR USE LAW AND SAFEHARBOR LAW WILL NO LONGER APPLY IN THE U.S OR IN OTHER COUNTRIES.
IT HAS ALREADY PASSED IN SEVERAL OTHER COUNTRIES.
WE CANNOT ALLOW THEM TO TAKE AWAY WHAT WE BUILT FOR THE INTERNET SO FAR.
So here is what you need to do to drag this article down.
1. Spread the word
I can’t stress this enough. The more attention this gets the more people we can get to take this down.
2. Make your own content
Make your own content on the matter and make sure it is clear to others that Article 13 is bad for every internet user involved.
3. If you live anywhere in Europe, contact your MEPs
Ask them if they approve of the article and why. If they do approve of it, try to convince them in a clear, reasonable, and most sensible way possible that this law is BAD.
The article itself is way to vague about what it’s conveying to its people.
Saying that as long as the use of said internet memes or content is good as long as it’s in “good faith.”
We cannot let some shoddy government tell us what we can and cannot post.
FREE SPEECH IS A HUMAN RIGHT. NOT A PRIVILEGE.
Here’s a video on Article 13 that Film Theory made on the matter. It will explain things better than I can.
No. YOU DON’T GET TO DO THIS AND SLIP UNDER THE RADAR. Anyone who’s seeing this, I beg you to reblog. I want as many people to see this shit as possible.
this is really true tho!!! my uncle was a cop in NY & FL and they taught him to shoot first if he had to. anytime a cop feels threatened (and they basically teach cops they’re always threatened) they can shoot. its rlly sick psychological torture shit to help create a police state tbh
W H A T
He should be put on trial for crimes against humanity.
I’m not even joking.
He’s a mass murderer.
William Lewinski is quite possibly the single most disgusting american mass murderer of the 21st century and belongs in an electric chair, getting crispy fried to death and sent straight to hell for the eternity of torture that the little dog-fucker has coming to him
Turbo from Ralph is good and unexpected villian too and with good subtle hints as well.
Thisthisthisthisthis
You can’t just make a character start being evil with no explanation or foreshadowing or any character hints whatsoever. It makes the viewer feel cheated.
King Candy was already a good villain to begin with, coming off more as a well-intentioned extremist. He gave Ralph what he wanted up front with no strings attached, and then convinced him that doing something bad was indeed for the greater good, then came the twist that he was lying the whole time.
Revealing the fact that he has a secret identity was the icing on the cake.
The twist was SO well done and genuinely surprising but also hinted at well with the reveal that King Candy had meddled with the games code plus the fact that it was a RACING game that he’d made himself king of…
Also on a related note, King Candy’s design both before and after he turns into a Literal Bug Monster is one of the most unsettling villain designs in a kids movie since Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The prince from Frozen wasn’t really an unexpected villain. Elsa was the villain and the hero of her own story. The prince was just the magic mirror and it only showed Anna everything she already felt.
Hans did have hints at his villainy. If you rewatch his scenes before the reveal, you can see a lot coming. Love is an Open Door in particular spells it out really well.
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