reveries & rants

heart full of lightning; head full of rain | 18+, she/her

[pretty-saucy]

I'm going under anesthesia a couple times in July. If I don't have the most incredible, vivid, healing dreams about him, I will be PISSED.

[pretty-saucy]

He's so fucking beautiful that I just want to tear my hair out as though that would fix something.

[junkfoodcinemas]

Enemy (2013) dir. Denis Villeneuve

[pretty-saucy]

a-HEM.

[cartel]

if every mistake you’ve made was written in a book, would you read it?

[eatyourlocalrich]

Mine would be a 5 book trilogy with books as big as Harry Potter

[cartel]

trilogy.. 

[suspicious-onion]

””“5 book trilogy”“”“

[eyerollgoddess-deactivated20151]

[thatseanguyblogs-deactivated201]

[snoopyoftheday]

snoopy of the day

[pretty-saucy]

Is that... not normal?

Oh, fuck.

[pretty-saucy]

[pretty-saucy]

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Michael was on a british show last night (pre-recorded) :)

The show host posted this message from Michael's phone as if by Michael to Michael's contact list and these are responses from Georgia and David :D <3.

Georgia:

David:

(video)

[calumhoodgoss]

I low-key wanna believe that Calum is affectionate and sweet with nicknames like darling or sweetheart? Like In my head he’s like a protective, sweet and genuine guy. Like I don’t know him personally or anything but that’s just how I see him??

awh thats so sweet and i hope he is like that!! i just think we all project our preferences onto him and thats the whole fun of it!! thats the whole point of having a boy band crush and i love it

[pretty-saucy]

Yes. This belief – and the daydreams that stem from it – get me through the day.

[icallhimjoey]

scream queen

[important-animal-images]

[andorology]

brooding men who cannot communicate their feelings if their life depended on it are only hot when they're fictional. if i have to deal with one in real life i will curse him and pray for his downfall every night before i go to bed

[kestrel-tree]

It's because the writer communicates their feelings for them. If people wanna pull that off in real life they need to hire a guy to walk around behind them narrating.

[bananonbinary]

#can i be the guy#ill narrate SO incorrectly#theyll all learn how to talk for themselves just to shut me up (via @cirrus-grey)

i'm loving the implication that this isn't something they hired you for, but something you'd do as some sort of public service.

[ahedderick]

[evitcani-writes]

“It seems like almost all of those people don’t have HIV,” said Jennifer Kates, HIV policy director at KFF, a health-research nonprofit. “If they did, that would be substandard care at a pretty severe level,” she said.

Ya’ll. United Health just got accused of $17 billion in medicare fraud.

Basically they made up diagnosis which are improbable or impossible, “forgot” to remove ones which had been cured, and overall allegedly stole billions from taxpayers.

The government pays insurers a base rate for each Medicare Advantage member. The insurers are entitled to extra money when their patients are diagnosed with certain conditions that are costly to treat.

… About 18,000 Medicare Advantage recipients had insurer-driven diagnoses of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, but weren’t receiving treatment for the virus from doctors, between 2018 and 2021, the data showed. Each HIV diagnosis generates about $3,000 a year in added payments to insurers.

… He said internal company data for 2022 showed a treatment rate for patients UnitedHealth diagnosed with HIV of more than triple what the Journal found. He said the pandemic disrupted care, lowering treatment rates during the period analyzed by the Journal, and that the analysis failed to account for patients who started treatments in future years.

The Medicare data, however, show UnitedHealth’s patients with insurer-driven HIV diagnoses were on the antiretrovirals at low rates even before the pandemic, and hardly any started the drugs in the years after UnitedHealth diagnosed them.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/medicare-health-insurance-diagnosis-payments-b4d99a5d

I bet United Health really wishes it was a different week right now.

[thedoctorknits]

backing up, what the hell is an “insurer driven diagnosis”

[fresh-bag-of-ham]

Instead of saving taxpayers money, Medicare Advantage has added tens of billions of dollars in costs, researchers and some government officials have said. One reason is that insurers can add diagnoses to ones that patients’ own doctors submit. Medicare gave insurers that option so they could catch conditions that doctors neglected to record. The Journal’s analysis, however, found many diagnoses were added for which patients received no treatment, or that contradicted their doctors’ views.

The insurers make new diagnoses after reviewing medical charts, sometimes using artificial intelligence, and sending nurses to visit patients in their homes. They pay doctors for access to patient records, and reward patients who agree to home visits with gift cards and other financial benefits.

[nudityandnerdery]

So they not only had rejection rates FAR higher than other insurance companies, but also basically faked diagnoses to get paid more. Wow.

[naamahdarling]

This is from earlier this year but worth being aware of.

[supermodelcats]

[pretty-saucy]

Same, little buddy. Same.

[pretty-saucy]

Nobody fucking touch me. He posted.

Fuck, he's fine. You just know he used these for that new Raya profile he's surely got going by now.

[pretty-saucy]

Second worst year of my life. I lost my best friend, respect for my favorite author, Liam Payne and any hope for a true 1D reunion, and now THIS? These pre-cancer cells better get a move on. I'm done.