UndergroundMan
undergroundman.bsky.social
UndergroundMan
@undergroundman.bsky.social
Fighting coverage denials at @persiusorg.bsky.social and @healthaccessorg.bsky.social.

Math PhD, physics defector. Now cat servant, soccer, health access and machine learning.
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He didn't choose the thug life; the thug life chose him.
November 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Dangerous precedent.
November 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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if you'd like a special little treat please google "dave portnoy tippy toes"
November 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Ross Douthat is less significant than you think
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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dawg not the steakhouse wedding font
New sign outside the Oval Office..
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June.

It’s louder & clearer tonight.
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Lol. The Cuomo of newspapers would like to offer some unsolicited advice.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Zohran Mamdani, “who campaigned on sweeping promises, can build a more positive legacy by focusing on tangible accomplishments,” the editorial board writes.
Opinion | Six Ways Zohran Mamdani Can Improve New York City
Mamdani, who campaigned on sweeping promises, can build a positive legacy by focusing on tangible accomplishments.
nyti.ms
November 5, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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"External appeals serve a unique and critical role in ensuring access to justice for patients facing inappropriate denials. They provide a relatively unbiased, low-barrier pathway for patients to contest denials. In contrast, internal appeals lack a conceptual basis for impartiality."
October 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This plant store knows what's up.
October 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Silas is trying to play it cool even though he has slid off his bed entirely. Hennie looks on from the couch, unamused.
October 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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October 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
October 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Wow. New York times has been platforming moronic opinions for a long time, but credit where credit's due, their headlines still have that sweet sweet profitable shock value. Gotta maximize those clicks.

Please stop giving these people money, and attention.
October 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
If you care about health insurance denials, check out this report.

Lots of talk (for good reason) about ACA eptc extension fight.

A lot less talk about what all that money is supposed to be for, and the extent to which the insurers paid these premiums actually follow coverage rules.
"Some patient populations are bearing the brunt of the harms caused by wrongful denials, and these patient populations are often already facing dire circumstances"

From "Denied: The Harmful Role of Prior Authorization and Claim Denials"

Full report here:
peoplesaction.org/new-york-dat...
New York Data Suggest Coverage Denials Put Most Vulnerable Patients At Risk
People’s Action Executive Director Sulma Arias condemns Trump’s Senate budget as a violent attack on working families—cutting Medicaid, housing, and food to fund tax breaks for billionaires. The fight...
peoplesaction.org
October 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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I’m sorry, why are we using “critics accuse” language here? These are factually, unambiguously, extrajudicial killings. It’s not an opinion. It’s not a disputed or disputable claim.
October 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Caterine Heppurrn out for walkies
October 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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The Art of the Deal.
Breaking News: Mayor Eric Adams will endorse Andrew Cuomo for mayor of New York City to try to stop the momentum of Zohran Mamdani. nyti.ms/4nfliHv
October 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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SNAP benefits expire in one week.
Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.
October 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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New report from our friends at People’s Action Institute, with contributions from us.

Report suggests inappropriate coverage denials are widespread, and pose disproportionate harms to some of the most vulnerable patient populations in NY.

Read the report today:
peoplesaction.org/new-york-dat...
New York Data Suggest Coverage Denials Put Most Vulnerable Patients At Risk
People’s Action Executive Director Sulma Arias condemns Trump’s Senate budget as a violent attack on working families—cutting Medicaid, housing, and food to fund tax breaks for billionaires. The…
peoplesaction.org
October 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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High appeal rates would alter the calculus insurers use to inform adjudication practices. With enough appeals and overturns, it would cost more to administer *wrongful* denials than to cover the associated services.

Insurers do not act against their own financial interests
October 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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You may disagree with some of Trump’s policies (pointless military invasion of your exurbs, no healthcare, routine savage beatings) but at least his peace deals keep falling apart immediately
October 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM