{"id":8711,"date":"2025-07-31T00:03:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=8711"},"modified":"2025-07-30T23:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T06:05:16","slug":"system-fail-reset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2025\/07\/31\/system-fail-reset\/","title":{"rendered":"System, Fail, Reset"},"content":{"rendered":"

A self-styled millennial recounts<\/a> being charged $41,000 for a hospital stay of less than 24 hours to treat high blood pressure\u2014without surgery, scans, or serious intervention\u2014calling the bill \u201cextortion\u201d despite already paying $4,400 out-of-pocket with insurance.<\/p>\n

“MountainView Hospital is a 400+ bed state-of-the-art, full-service medical facility located in the heart of Northwest Las Vegas.”<\/p>\n

The health insurance system is brutally unfair. But: I will be, and point out that as far as I can tell, ‘this is not a bill’, and reflects raw charges that haven’t been processed through his insurer yet. <\/p>\n

But what if you don’t *have* an insurer?<\/p>\n

Well then you’re instantly fucked. <\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Things would be so much simpler if it was just the broken system of health “care”. <\/p>\n

But it’s all of the System. <\/p>\n

The Reality of Being a Mechanic in 2025 <\/a><\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

The only way to navigate the failing System is to take several steps closer to DIY. <\/p>\n

So I’m counting carbs, washing my serious enamel pan more than once a day as I cook all my own food, and taking my self-monitored blood pressure seriously. <\/p>\n

As for the vehicles, I will never have the genius to make my own MorrVair<\/a>Tere, but I can drop twenty bucks on the manual and possibly figure out how to change my own fuel level sensor. <\/p>\n

Maybe. I think so. <\/p>\n

And keeping my finger on the pulse of smarter people in many arenas, like with yesterday’s Food and Drug post. <\/p>\n

And dreaming my own stories. <\/p>\n

“Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A self-styled millennial recounts being charged $41,000 for a hospital stay of less than 24 hours to treat high blood pressure\u2014without surgery, scans, or serious intervention\u2014calling the bill \u201cextortion\u201d despite already paying $4,400 out-of-pocket with insurance. “MountainView Hospital is a 400+ bed state-of-the-art, full-service medical facility located in the heart of Northwest Las Vegas.” The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8714,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711\/revisions\/8714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}