Sunlight

Researcher and writer.

SUNLIGHT is the best disinfectant.

[Planet Of Memes @PlanetOfMemes]

American actor, filmmaker and comedian Mel Brooks turned 100 years old on June 28th making him ineligible to play with LEGOs.

[unseen1 @unseen1_unseen]

Pro tip: if you have 52 million people on welfare/government assistance you don't have a labor shortage.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

A 9-year-old girl cries as she is being sold by her own family and forced into an arranged marriage with a 60-year-old man. This is Islam.

[STORM NEWS 📰🗞️ @storm1news]

🚨 BREAKING: Maui residents say Oprah has NOT opened her private road from Wailea to Kula as people flee the incoming tsunami. Roads are gridlocked, and stranded families are pleading: “Open the road, Oprah!”

[voided intern @voidedintern]

Elon Musk reveals the moment his son Saxon left an entire sushi restaurant speechless

"I was living in L.A., and I took my older boys out for lunch to Sugarfish, which is a very kind of uptight sushi restaurant. In fact, on the menu of the restaurant, it says, do not ask for soy sauce, because the chef has put the right amount of soy sauce."

"So, like, extremely strict sushi restaurant. And so the waiter is going around asking everyone what they want and then it comes to Saxon and Saxon says I'll have a cheeseburger."

"And the waiter takes a moment to recover because no one ever asked for a cheeseburger at this very strict sushi restaurant. It took him like 30 seconds to realize he'd just been asked for a cheeseburger, because you're not even allowed to ask for soy sauce."

"So then when he finally recovered, he said, we don't have cheeseburgers. And Saxon goes at the top of his voice, what? Like, what kind of restaurant doesn't have cheeseburgers? He says, fine, I'll have a hamburger."

[hunter @hxxntrr]

you're about to pay that $14,000 hospital bill. Stop

call the billing department and say five words: "I need an itemized statement"

watch $14,000 turn into $3,200

hospitals send you a summary bill on purpose. one line. one number. one deadline. designed to make you panic and pay or ignore it until it destroys your credit

the itemized version tells a completely different story

every charge has a CPT code (Current Procedural Terminology). this is the 5-digit number that identifies the exact procedure or service. your $14,000 bill might have 30-60 individual CPT codes on it. each one represents a charge the hospital decided you owe

here's what you'll typically find when you actually read them:

$83 for a tablet of acetaminophen. you know this drug as Tylenol. CVS sells a bottle of 100 for $6.49. the hospital charged you $83 for ONE

$482 for "room utilization." you sat in a curtained area in the ER for 22 minutes while a nurse took your blood pressure

$1,400 for "physician consultation" when a nurse practitioner checked your chart for 90 seconds and a doctor you never met signed off remotely

$312 for "surgical supplies" for 4 stitches and a gauze pad that cost the hospital $0.74 in materials

$234 for "facility fee." this is a charge for being in the building. literally a fee for walking through the door

duplicate charges billed under different CPT codes for the same procedure

the chargemaster:

every hospital has a document called the chargemaster. it's a master list of every service and its price. chargemaster prices are set internally by the hospital with zero external regulation. there is no law governing how much a hospital can charge for a tylenol or a CT scan. the chargemaster is a fictional pricing document that has no relationship to the actual cost of care

under the Hospital Price Transparency Rule (CMS-1717-F2, effective January 2021), hospitals with 300+ beds are required to publish their chargemaster prices online. most hospitals bury the file in an obscure corner of their website as a 40,000-row spreadsheet that nobody can read. but it's there

pull it. compare what they charged you to what they published. then compare both numbers to the Medicare reimbursement rate for the same CPT code at https://t.co/OYp6CWUAOK. Medicare rates represent what the federal government has determined is a fair price for each procedure

the gaps are violent:

CT scan abdomen (CPT 74177):
Medicare rate: $280
Average chargemaster price: $4,200
Markup: 1,400%

basic metabolic panel (CPT 80048):
Medicare rate: $11
Average chargemaster price: $620
Markup: 5,536%

ER visit level 4 (CPT 99284):
Medicare rate: $268
Average chargemaster price: $2,800
Markup: 945%

the negotiation sequence:

call 1: "I received my itemized statement. I've compared each CPT code to the Medicare reimbursement rate and found that your charges exceed Medicare rates by 400-1,400% across 18 line items. I'd like to discuss a fair adjustment to bring these charges closer to market rates"

most billing departments have authority to reduce 20-40% without supervisor approval. push for 50%+

call 2: "I'd like to apply for your financial assistance program under your 501(r) charity care policy"

every nonprofit hospital (roughly 60% of US hospitals) is required under IRC Section 501(r) to maintain a financial assistance policy. if your household income falls below 200-400% of the federal poverty level (varies by hospital), you qualify for 40-100% reduction. for 2026, 400% FPL for a single person is roughly $60,240. family of four: $124,800

this means a family earning $120K/year may qualify for a 50-80% reduction at many nonprofit hospitals. they will never tell you this. you have to ask

call 3: "I've identified billing errors including [duplicate charges/upcoded procedures/unbundled services] and I'm filing a formal billing dispute. Please route this to your patient advocate for internal audit review"

the word "audit" triggers a different process. a compliance officer reviews the bill instead of a collections agent. errors get found. charges get removed

call 4 (the close): "I can pay $3,200 today as settlement in full. This resolves the account. I'll need written confirmation that the account is settled and will not be sent to collections"

hospitals would rather take $3,200 today than send $14,000 to a collection agency that will buy it for $420 and harass you for years. your lump-sum offer at 23 cents on the dollar is more profitable for the hospital than the collections route

if it already went to collections:

the collector bought your $14,000 bill for $280-$560. they'll take $1,500 and delete. but first, send the FDCPA 809 validation letter demanding the full itemized statement with CPT codes, the insurance explanation of benefits, and proof the remaining balance is accurate after all contractual adjustments

collectors almost never have this for medical debt. the hospital sold a spreadsheet. the supporting documentation went to a filing cabinet nobody will ever open. unable to validate = dispute with bureaus = deleted in 30 days

a woman came to us with $89,000 in medical bills across 4 hospital visits from 2023-2025. we requested itemized statements for all four. found $31,000 in duplicate charges, facility fees already included in surgeon's bills, and supplies billed at 2,000-5,000% above cost. applied for 501(r) financial assistance at 2 of the 4 hospitals. she qualified for 70% reduction at both

$89,000 original total
$31,000 removed (billing errors)
$58,000 remaining
$40,600 reduced (70% charity care at 2 hospitals)
$17,400 remaining across 2 for-profit hospitals
Settled for $6,200 lump sum payment

$89,000 to $6,200. 7 cents on the dollar. score went from 512 to 703 in 68 days after the collections were deleted

five words. "I need an itemized statement." the hospital is hoping you never say them lol

(i fix credit in 30-90 days. link in bio)

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

Nothing screams TRUE SOCIALIST like:

-A millionaire who owns 3 homes
-Arriving in a huge SUV
-To his private jet
-To fly out and give a paid speech
-On the evils of capitalism and fossil fuels

Am I right?

[Trumps Nephew @ForgiatoBlow47]

YOU DO REALIZE THAT THE 8 MILLION PEOPLE "LOSING" MEDICAID, AND THE 3 MILLION "LOSING" SNAP BENEFITS ARE NOT ENTITILED TO THOSE BENEFITS IN THE FIRST PLACE.

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

HELICOPTER PILOT WHISTLEBLOWER: TICK AIRDROPS

“I work for a private Charter Company in Ontario Canada. We get paid handsomely to AirDrop Ticks every year — this year we dropped MORE and EARLIER. These were DEER TICKS.”

This isn’t “nature” — it’s deliberate.

Tick-borne Alpha-Gal Syndrome (the meat allergy nightmare) has exploded 9,800% in the US since 2013.

Coincidence? Or part of the plan to crash the food supply and control the population?

Bill Gates and his cronies have been obsessed with “fixing” humanity through bugs, vaccines, and engineered crises. Now we’re literally being bombed with them.

This is biological terrorism from the skies.

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Elon Musk: "I did originally come to North America with like 2500 bucks Canadian, or 2000 US, one bag of books and one bag of clothes in Montreal at age of 17. So that is how I started out."

[UpLift Your Mind @Upliftyourmnd]

YOUR DOCTOR WILL NEVER TELL YOU ABOUT NATTOKINASE.

BUT IT DISSOLVES CLOTS, LOWERS BLOOD PRESSURE,

AND A NEW STUDY SHOWED IT SHRANK ARTERIAL PLAQUE BY 36%.
NO MED OR STATIN DOES THAT.

HERE ARE ALL ITS HEALTH BENEFITS

(& HOW TO USE IT PROPERLY):

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Scientists have created one of the most detailed 3D reconstructions of a human cell (eukaryotic cell) ever produced.

This groundbreaking model, often termed a "Cellular Landscape Cross-Section Through a Eukaryotic Cell," combines data from X-ray tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy to map molecular structures in extreme detail.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This flower is called "Queen of the Night." It blossoms only at night and only one night a year.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Can you believe such a big amount of lava can flow this fast?

This iconic video shows Kilauea's fissure 8. No, it has not been sped up and this is the most stunning detail.

[📹 Ken Boyer]

[Irlandarra @martinez_j7902]

No autopsy was conducted on Charlie Kirk according to released police dispatch audio.

Autopsies for murder victims are Legally mandated in the state of Utah.

[Richard Gage, AIA, Architect @RichardGage_911]

[RG911Team] This is not a building exploding in an action movie.

It’s the South Tower of the World Trade Center on 9/11.

So, if fires caused a progressive collapse, why does it instead look like dozens of timed explosions are going off on every floor?

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

Newsom would rather tax billionaires than:
- Figure out where $24 billion for the homeless went
- Stop funding California’s NGO scams
- Waste $14 billion on a train to nowhere
- Continue using your tax dollars for illegals’ healthcare

Billionaires aren’t the problem, you are.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

Why must air traffic controllers retire at 56, FBI agents at 57, and pilots at 65—yet politicians can keep making decisions for future generations until 90?

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

CDC Whistleblower's Secret Recording: "We Buried the Data on MMR & Autism, I'm Completely Ashamed."

Dr. Brian Hooker secretly recorded a senior CDC scientist, Dr. William Thompson, who made a shocking admission.

On those recordings, Dr. Thompson freely confessed to a massive cover-up. He admitted that he and his senior associates at the CDC had buried the damning data showing a statistical link between the MMR vaccine and autism.

Thompson stated, "Thimerosal causes autism-like features." He expressed profound shame, saying, "I'm completely ashamed of what I did. The higher-ups wanted to do certain things and I went along with it."

He named senior officials—Colleen Boyle, Frank DeStefano, Marceline Moulton—as participants. At the helm was Dr. Julie Gerberding, who later became president of Merck Vaccine.

This is not a theory. It is a confession from a lead CDC co-author on the pivotal studies used to deny any link. The man inside the machine admitted the fraud.

The public deserves the truth. The victims deserve justice.