Modern Vespa

Monogodo,

I am also stuggling with a hospital billing. 2023 was a tough year here in Minnesota. I broke my ankle on the ice, and got food poisoning in the Fall.
My blushing bride had potential future cancer stuff chopped off her skin and breast. We are on my wife's employee (low deductible) health plan. Between co-pays and deductibles we shelled out $8000.

The care was exceptional, the billing cost extremely high.

Also, be careful, the health insurance companies are using Artifical Intelliegence to review claim submissions (no human involved). They turn down stuff all the time that should be paid.

Best to you.

Bob Copeland

I, too, appreciate all the work the mods do here!

USB charging socket in the glovebox in my GTS has died (it's not the fuse). I am going to have my dashcam control module in there so need power in there. I've already routed the camera cables in to there.

More things to fix / change / replace / whatever. Could run it direct to battery with fuse + relay but a working USB port would be nice for charging other things (rare but nice).

You guys are foruming around on us?
I thought we were exclusive! What did we do? We can change.

Wanted to order the green-white-red horn grills for our scoots. Yeah not super cheap but we were willing to pay the ask.

Naturally ze germans refuse to use normal chepa shipping methods, so it would have been over $125 for two pieces of plastic. More to let DHL destroy the box and lose part of the order than the actual parts.

We'll be in Munich towards the end of the year I'll just have them DeutschePost it to our hotel then.

I'll be there in 3 weeks. Guess where I'm going to visit.

Can you visit scooter center in person? I figured they were orders only.

Sadly your preferred supplier isn't going to be my destination.

Think bigger.

Oh sip, who when your order falls out of the destroyed box says "well we put it in there it's not our fault we refuse to file the claim"?

F those guys too.

Think really really big. Really big.

I've got faith in you.

You know, for my job I use a laser scanner, and I have access to some sweet industrial 3D printers.

I'm thinking side gig.

Paulaner?
Spaten?
Augustiner?

Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft.

Auto Union also if there's time.

Viktualienmarkt!

I'm prepared to provide you some of my dollars and a side bet of most of my hair

Are you referring to S.I.P.? Or am I missing another supplier.

Re: SIP, heck yeah, nice little museum, coffee and Landsberg is well worth a visit (if you ignore some sketchy German history....). Not at all far from Munich.

nope, scooter-center.com

My frustration of the day:

Google broke my TPMS in their last security update for my pixel 7 pro.

They seem to have also broken my Tile Tracker



UPDATE [NSR] What's cheering you up today? (Post 2660747)

I'm pissed off that PG&E, our energy supplier here, quotes electricity energy usage in kWh (good!) but gas energy usage in BTU (WTF?). This means there's no easy comparison between the two without doing strange 'sums'.

And don't get me started on those who quote power outputs in BTU when they really mean BTU/h. Why they can't just use kW instead I really do not know.

Hit the ol' Bakers Dozen yesterday for former colleagues offing themselves.

I have the opposite complaint. I don't understand why natural gas is measured (in EU and UK, and probably elsewhere) in a unit of measurement meant for electricity.

Which leaves me, oddly, preferring British Thermal Units.

How did we even get here?

Aliens.


From two different places.

But, but, but... Watts aren't just for electricity, and I was never taught in such terms. Sure, it's a common usage, especially in the US where other units get used for power and energy, but it's never been the fundamental definition. we got here because BTUs, especially their misuse as a unit of power rather than energy, piss me off

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Damn.

Quite sad. Sorry for your loss.

I think I need to check what's happening on the Celsius thread ..

Coming up to 60 I decided to look into whether I can get free bus travel pass..

Scotland ✅

Wales ✅

London ✅

The rest of England (where I live) ❌

I'll have to wait another 7 years ☹️

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What he said.
If we can be of assistance let us know.

The state of Tennessee sent me a notice "you owe us $75. in unpaid taxes". I called in and was informed "I had a shortfall of payment a few years back". I could ask for forgiveness but had to pay the tax first.
After some digging they discovered I underpaid in the amount of .27 cents.
It took many phone calls and emails to make all this go away.
Gov't bureaucracy makes my brain wobble!

Governments are very black-and-white when it comes to breaking laws no matter how silly or inconsequential it seems--and they'll go to the ends of the earth to see "justice" prevail.

When GOVERNMENT does it, though, it never happened and you're a lunatic for thinking they did anything wrong.

Found this picture on my phone that I took while waiting in line at a tiny bakery in 2017. I had never seen such a thing before. I'm pissed that I didn't buy one.

I prefer converting to joules/second.

Also ...

No scoots for the foreseeable future.

No snow here just miserable, damp cold weather.

Greasy, dirty roads also.

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Yes, I'm aware of this. In fact, when I was talking to the first associate, he mentioned that my account status was on "Final Notice" and in danger of being sent to collections. I told him, "since this is medical debt, you have to accept whatever amount I'm able to send you, and not send it to collections, so I guess I'll just have to do that," and then I hung up on him.

I don't have a problem paying what I legitimately owe. After speaking with the other two associates the next day, and getting better information from them than just "you owe it, pay us," I set up a payment plan.

Part of the issue is that my health insurance at the time had a deductible of $1900 (my current plan has a deductible of $1200). Another part is that, because I work for a public school district, my insurance runs from September through August. So it doesn't coincide with a tax year, which makes it harder to keep track of things. This is the first time I've had an issue since working here. I've only worked here for almost 5 years, so it hasn't come up before.

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I had medical debt years ago that the first I heard of it was from a collection agency. I had broken my wrist while mountain biking, and my health insurance coverage was through COBRA, which hadn't caught up with me at the time of the accident. So by the time the hospital got paid by insurance, they had already sent it to collections. I set up a payment plan with the collection agency, and the agency would say one thing and do another. They'd tell me they'd send a payment book, but then never would, and then would get upset that I'd forget about the payment because I didn't have the book to remind me.

At one point the collection agency called me and said they wanted to offer a payoff. They were willing to accept a smaller amount, split between two payments, if I sent them post-dated checks to cover it. The discounted amount was worth it to me, so I agreed. I sent them the two checks. On the date the second check was to go through, they called and said that the client had declined the payoff amount, and that I still owed the full amount. I replied that, in that case, I was going to cancel payment on the second check, and consider the previous check that had already cleared to be 3 or 4 months worth of payments towards the payment plan that we had initially set up, and that I would resume monthly payments after those 3 or 4 months. I further said that they should have gotten approval for the payoff prior to offerring it to me. The agent became belligerent and started to swear at me. I politely asked him to not use that language, and that if he swore at me again, I'd hang up on him. He replied, "you wouldn't fucking dare." I hung up.

He immediately called back. When I answered, he started swearing at me again, so I hung up again. I then called the hospital accounts receivable department. I explained the issue and was told that, since it was in collections, it was out of their hands, that they technically didn't own the debt anymore since they sold it to the collection agency. I asked if they had any contact information for someone higher up in the agency than the agent who was swearing at me. They gave me the phone number of the CEO. I called him, and it turned out to be his direct line. He answered it, and I explained the situation. I told him that I had no problem with paying what I owed, but due to my financial situation (making barely over minimum wage), I could only afford to pay via the payment plan. He put me on hold to get my file. When he got back on the line, he asked if I was willing to accept the payoff amount. I said yes, and he said that he'd consider my account paid.

From that experience I learned that the agent who was dealing with me was full of shit. The client had nothing to do with the payoff amount, because the collection agency was the client. They bought the debt from the hospital, and owned it outright. He was trying to scam me into paying as much of it as possible, as quickly as possible, probably because he'd get a bonus for getting as close to full payment in less time.

Thoughts with you mate👍, last year I lost 3 good friends to cancer, 1 cardiac and 1 murder, It really touches us all💔, shit times we live in at the present.

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