moktor

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[–] moktor@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I've been fighting with my insurance company since May. My wife had a medical emergency and I had to take her to the ER at 3AM on a Sunday. The team of doctors treating her all agreed she needed to be hospitalized and have emergency surgery. She was admitted and underwent surgery and was out in three days.

A week after she was discharged we received a letter from the insurance company letting us know they had decided not to cover the $67k hospitalization bill because they had decided it wasn't medically necessary.

So yeah, that's great. Not to mention we had finally hit our $6,000 deductible (after I had cardiac issues and ended up in the ER the previous month) so insurance would finally have had to actually pay something.

So glad we pay them $1500 a month for them to make decisions on what is medically necessary and what constitutes an emergency after the fact.

[–] moktor@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Howdy! I deleted this comment myself. I was having trouble posting an image and gave up.

[–] moktor@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I tried. Even got a degree in German Language & Literature. Took additional language courses through the Goethe Institute in DE, etc.

Though I've spent the last twenty years as a software developer (which is classified as an Engpassberuf), I was told that the regulations would only allow me to seek work based on the skills from that degree (Berufsqualifikation).

"We already know how to speak German."

[–] moktor@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Too slow to the party it seems, has been removed from archive.org as well. :(

[–] moktor@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I read this Wired article a couple months ago that though long does do a really good job of covering the company, its culture, and the issues with trying to run a factory in the U.S. : https://www.wired.com/story/i-saw-the-face-of-god-in-a-tsmc-factory/