A guy got a $600 hospital bill for a bag of saline water and salt. He called one number, said 9 words, and the bill dropped to $80.
His wife works in medical billing. She told him hospitals send you the "chargemaster" price first — a number almost nobody actually pays, and almost nobody knows they don't have to.
The saline bag: $600 billed. Actual cost to the hospital: under $2. The IV tubing: $200 billed. Cost: a few dollars. A single Tylenol: $20 billed. You can buy the whole bottle for $6.
Same hospital stay, same treatment, same doctor. The insured price for the exact same bag of saline: $40. The cash-pay negotiated price when he called and asked: $80. The bill he almost paid without asking: $600.
He told me: "The first bill isn't a bill. It's an opening offer. Almost nobody in America knows that's what it is."
Here are the 9 things his wife taught him about how hospital billing actually works — and the exact words that got $520 erased from one line item alone.
We're told climate disasters are getting worse.
According to the world's leading disaster database, climate-related disasters show no trend since 2000.
And climate-related deaths have collapsed by over 98% since 1920, with deaths dropping from nearly 500,000 per year to under 10,000 today.
Floods, droughts, storms, and wildfires are not increasing. And on top of that, humanity is just far more resilient than it used to be.
There is no crisis, just progress.
California's "DELETE Act" authored by @SenJoshBecker (D-Menlo Park) officially takes effect today, Aug. 1, nearly three years after California Gov. @GavinNewsom signed it into law.
Data brokers collect, buy, sell, and share your personal information—often without you ever interacting with them directly. Starting today, registered data brokers must begin processing your deletion requests submitted through California's DROP system. With one request at https://t.co/rtpGUC4dFY, Californians can ask hundreds of data brokers to delete their personal information. More than 340,000 Californians have already signed up, per Becker.
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SOCIALISM: Francesca Hong is running for Gov of Wisconsin. When she aired this commercial her restaurant had failed, shut for over a year, sued by Capital One for $30K in unpaid debt & her parents had to pay & her only income was from politics.
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One of the 274 agents FBI Director Christina Wray deployed to disrupt the official proceedings of Jan. 6.
📝 Every single one of the 274 FBI agents deployed on Jan. 6 should be subpoenaed to testify under oath before Trump’s DOJ on national TV.
Here it is:
CONFIRMED: Hillary Clinton, who orchestrated the single greatest misinformation and disinformation campaign in United States history—the Russian collusion hoax—as a means to overthrow the U.S. government, was directly involved in urging the European Union to use its Digital Services Act to pressure and fine Elon Musk and push the U.S. back into censorship.
In fact, the fascist flew overseas to Nazi Germany for a meeting to facilitate this atrocity.
— Law professor Jonathan Turley:
“They (the European Union) gathered in Berlin, and it was the most anti–free speech gathering I’ve ever been part of. Hillary Clinton was there, and she really fueled the anger.
When Twitter was purchased by Elon Musk, she called on the EU to use the infamous Digital Services Act, which is one of the most anti–free speech pieces of legislation in decades. She called upon the EU to use the DSA to force the censorship of American citizens and to force people like Musk to censor.
It’s an extraordinary act by someone who was once a presidential candidate.”
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Thomas Sowell on the Clintons and Barack Obama:
“The Clintons had the saving grace of utter lack of principle—when they saw which way the political wind was blowing, that’s the way they’d go, regardless of what they’d been saying before.”
“[Obama] has been a far-left ideologue for twenty years... I think this man really does believe that he can change the world; people like that are infinitely more dangerous than mere crooked politicians.”
Don’t fall for the fear campaign...what is MEASLES?...a fever, a cough, a rash, runny eyes & runny nose.
-Dr. Sherri Tenpenny
"The measles vaccine came out in 1963. In 1962, the death rate from measles was two in a million.”
"So it was not even deadly BEFORE we had a vaccine."
IF YOU FEAR MEASLES...
You must not know that even in the 60s, before the vaccine, the survival rate was over 99.9%.
You must not know that the MMR is a live virus vaccine & can cause measles.
You must not know that the MMR vaccine is linked to 2,657% MORE DEATHS than measles since 1995.
You must not know that it's a very mild childhood illness for well-nourished children.
You must not know that natural measles infection provides lifelong immunity, unlike the vaccine.
You must not know that there are huge lifelong health benefits to getting measles, including a lower risk of cancer, lower risk of heart disease & stronger immune resilience.
You must not know that the MMR insert lists over 60 serious adverse events, ranging from encephalitis, seizures & death.
You must not know that studies show Vitamin A drastically reduces measles complications-yet public health officials ignore it.
This 👇👇 here 👇👇 is one of the most damning pieces of evidence involving January 6 in its entirety.
@RepClayHiggins “These two buses in the middle here were the first to arrive at Union Station on January 6 at 0500 hours.”
Capitol Police surveillance camera #0903, on January 6 at 5:18 a.m., CONFIRMS that the camera was following the FBI’s all-white “ghost bus” heading toward the Capitol, delivering FBI informants and thugs dressed as Trump supporters at 0500 hours.
GOP Rep. Clay Higgins asked FBI Director Christina Wray point-blank whether the FBI sent “ghost buses” filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters to the Capitol on January 6. Watch as Democrats rush to cut off his microphone—and, even worse, the Republican chairman does exactly the same.
On January 6, 2021, a former FBI agent on the ground at the U.S. Capitol texted investigative journalist @paulsperry_ and confirmed that at least one “busload” of Antifa thugs infiltrated peaceful Trump demonstrators as part of a false flag operation.
🚨 JOHN JAMES GOES OFF: JOCELYN BENSON ALLOWED ILLEGAL ALIENS TO VOTE🚨
Trump-endorsed Michigan governor candidate John James just unloaded on Democrat Jocelyn Benson:
“She’s presiding over an election she’s running for GOVERNOR in!”
“We’re gonna make this election TOO BIG TO RIG and swamp the vote. Patriots know what’s at stake.”
“We’re going to make sure that we hold Jocelyn Benson accountable for her failure to have secure elections when she allowed dozens of illegals to vote in our elections.”
Michigan ranks 46th overall. Education is 45th. Infrastructure is crumbling.
James is ready to fight.
Secure the elections. Take back the state. 🇺🇸
🚨🚨 Newly released FBI documents by @FBIDirectorKash CONFIRM:
Not only did the FBI stage January 6 five months before it happened, but the DNC also planned to overthrow the United States government if Trump won—“provoke a breakdown on January 6 to disrupt the proceedings and prevent the vote from going through.”
The FBI’s Boston office ran a secret tabletop exercise in August 2020, five months before January 6 occurred. It included two dozen embedded informants and even planned “mass prosecutions,” including for minor offenses—the very same tactics later used against January 6 defendants.
United States Representative Clay Higgins: VINDICATED
@RepClayHiggins: “Christopher Wray was not only involved in the actions on J6 from within—he had over 200 agents embedded, dressed as Trump supporters, before the doors were even opened.”
“When you track the text threads and communications within those groups and trace the origins of suggestions of potential violence or an active occupation of the Capitol on January 6, you’ll find that those messages were led by members who turned out to be FBI agents infiltrating the groups. The FBI’s involvement was deep—not just on J6, but in the days, weeks, and months prior.”
In other words: Christopher Wray and William fucking Barr oversaw the overthrow of your government and covered it up.
Dozens of Duke University academics signed a letter declaring the lacrosse team guilty of rape allegations made against them by a black stripper. When the prosecuting attorney was disbarred for misconduct based on his conduct during the trial and the NC attorney general declared the accused to be innocent and the accuser was incarcerated for murder and later admitted to have made to all up on camera, none showed an ounce of repentance, all went on to distinguished academic careers, none documented a flicker of remorse or suffered a hint of consequence for their reckless act.
Ford has a security vulnerability that they are internally leaving unfixed so they can sell you the solution
Their vehicles are vulnerable to a relay attack, that lets someone with a signal booster trick your vehicle into thinking they have the key fob
Ford knows this works and your vehicle can be stolen, but instead of fixing the security issue they are charging customers $7.99 per month, that’s $96 per year to be protected from this hacking
The security package even comes with stolen vehicle assist…. So they know that your vehicle can be stolen by this and they’ll assist and get it back… for a price
There should be a lawsuit against Ford for this
In March 2023 an Australian goat farmer destroyed vegan activist Tash Peterson in a live debate.
Peterson claimed dairy farming is “the largest holocaust in history.” John Martin of Caprino Farm in Perth cut her off: “You’ve never been to my place.” When she asked how he knew, he told her that if she had, she’d realise she was talking a load of s***.
He explained he doesn’t use artificial insemination, the bucks run with the herd when the does are in season, the kids stay with their mothers, and he only takes the excess milk. The audience laughed. Her claims didn’t survive contact with actual farming.
Peterson has continued high-profile protests and later lost a major defamation case that led to bankruptcy proceedings. Martin is still running his farm.