I mean, bless the imagination of the person who maintains a 1970s Pan Am fantasy of flying, shattered only when they look over and see someone else looking slightly more comfortable in flannel drawstring pants.

Nurses will overwhelmingly get well paying jobs and pay these loans back. There aren’t drawbacks of these programs. It’s just racism and misogyny for the sake of it.

Hopkins - whose School of Public Health bears his name - lost $800 million in federal funding & laid off 2000 people doing life-saving work earlier this year. But super cool that he’s twice as rich. That def makes a meaningful difference in the lives of literally no one, including Bloomberg himself.

This system is so broken. It is so very expensive and so very broken.

At this point, over three years since I received care, thousands and thousands of dollars of staff time and resources that have been devoted to this mess. And guess what - we all get to pay for it. We pay for insurance companies to play hot potato with these claims.

But it’s three years later, and I still don’t know the resolution of this mess. It’s annoying, frustrating, I DIDN’T DO ANYTHING WRONG, I’m a health services researcher and I can’t figure out how to resolve this mess.

But remember - I already paid the deductible and (expected) co-insurance because when these were first filed by the providers, I told them I had CareFirst and paid accordingly. And regardless of the BCBS FEP mess, I did have CareFirst - both my employer and I were paying those premiums.

So today’s letters mostly said they were still processing these claims - it’s late 2025. One, for $1470, they said they weren’t covering - again - this is care I never asked them to cover. It’s unclear to me if this goes back to CareFirst, who will now agree the original claims were accurate.