@JaidianJohnson@TheUnaButters Early on that is true, later in the war they were definitely escorting merchant ships. Dick O’Kane’s autobiography Clear The Bridge! describes plenty of encounters with escorted merchants.
@mcuban Theres no price shopping because if a doc takes ur insurance then the fee is set by the ins company via their contract with the doc. Only way you could price shop is for some reason a doc accepted your insurance, but set their fee below the max allowed by ins leaving $$ on table
@mcuban If a doc accepts your insurance the max they are allowed to charge is dictated by the contract with the insurance company. Whether the patient met their deductible or not is irrelevant for doctors in network. It also makes price shopping pointless assuming you stay in network
@bollocksbegone@actsmaniac This image is intentionally misleading. For one it doesn’t include any salary wages, only hourly compensation, also hourly employees regularly receive a variety compensation that isn’t reflected in their hourly rate, contributions to health insurance or 401k matching for example.
@MW74164398@bannon1975 I understand this sentiment, but the proposed solution by many educators is simply to dumb down content of the capable children to conform to the ability of the lowest common denominator. Just look at reading scores over the last 10+ years to see the effect of this method.
@potatoslav It’s not as accurate, most adults would be unsatisfied with the prescription from the autorefractor alone, even less with one meant for peds. They are looking for gross refractive errors that NEED to be addressed more so than coming up with spec Rx focused on total clarity
@Xaraphim Same reason why 90’s trucks still retain their value for the most part cheap to use, easy to fix, reliable, still functional at being a truck, etc