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#326
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Oh brother. I have a patient with diabetes who took medicine A a couple years ago and did GREAT. He did so well we stopped it. Now his sugars are up again and he should go back on medicine A. Insurance says they won't cover it unless he tries medicine B AND medicine C.
He tried both medicines B and medicines C, and had terrible side effects.
So we asked insurance to cover medicine A.
They wrote back and said they WILL NOT cover medicine A. Why? Because they say he must try medicine B or medicine C first.
wut
He tried both medicines B and medicines C, and had terrible side effects.
So we asked insurance to cover medicine A.
They wrote back and said they WILL NOT cover medicine A. Why? Because they say he must try medicine B or medicine C first.
wut
#327
Coffin Dodger
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Oh brother. I have a patient with diabetes who took medicine A a couple years ago and did GREAT. He did so well we stopped it. Now his sugars are up again and he should go back on medicine A. Insurance says they won't cover it unless he tries medicine B AND medicine C.
He tried both medicines B and medicines C, and had terrible side effects.
So we asked insurance to cover medicine A.
They wrote back and said they WILL NOT cover medicine A. Why? Because they say he must try medicine B or medicine C first.
wut
He tried both medicines B and medicines C, and had terrible side effects.
So we asked insurance to cover medicine A.
They wrote back and said they WILL NOT cover medicine A. Why? Because they say he must try medicine B or medicine C first.
wut
Someone, who has never examined or diagnosed me, wants to be prescribing my medication, base on cost, only in America.
#328
dot dash
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Oh brother. I have a patient with diabetes who took medicine A a couple years ago and did GREAT. He did so well we stopped it. Now his sugars are up again and he should go back on medicine A. Insurance says they won't cover it unless he tries medicine B AND medicine C.
He tried both medicines B and medicines C, and had terrible side effects.
So we asked insurance to cover medicine A.
They wrote back and said they WILL NOT cover medicine A. Why? Because they say he must try medicine B or medicine C first.
wut
He tried both medicines B and medicines C, and had terrible side effects.
So we asked insurance to cover medicine A.
They wrote back and said they WILL NOT cover medicine A. Why? Because they say he must try medicine B or medicine C first.
wut
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#329
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So, is the solution just time on the phone? A brick wrapped in this poor guy's chart, tossed through the Medical Director's window?
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#331
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#332
So it is
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Location: Westminster, CO
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If you wear a normal (not wide) shoe, now is the time to try some Lake shoes. CC has them at a screaming price.
#333
smelling the roses
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I can ride easy til the cows come home, with no issues. I cannot do interval training.
#334
smelling the roses
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Before Social Security went paperless, they popped a questionaire in the mail once per year, just to see if their charge still lives there. In my, and all expats' cases, they duly put my address on the envelope, put a US stamp on it and sent it out. Every year, they would cut me off for non-return of the form. Every year, I called the embassy in Mexico City and they straightened it out. And around and around she goes; where she stops nobody knows.
#335
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Oh brother. I have a patient with diabetes who took medicine A a couple years ago and did GREAT. He did so well we stopped it. Now his sugars are up again and he should go back on medicine A. Insurance says they won't cover it unless he tries medicine B AND medicine C.
He tried both medicines B and medicines C, and had terrible side effects.
So we asked insurance to cover medicine A.
They wrote back and said they WILL NOT cover medicine A. Why? Because they say he must try medicine B or medicine C first.
wut
He tried both medicines B and medicines C, and had terrible side effects.
So we asked insurance to cover medicine A.
They wrote back and said they WILL NOT cover medicine A. Why? Because they say he must try medicine B or medicine C first.
wut
#336
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To each his own. Good talk.
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#337
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#338
Super Modest
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Bringing this site back to cycling, my eTap rear derailleur snapped the inner jockey wheel side plate of today’s 50 miler. Carbon asplosion.
The good part is that I was able to get home without much trouble. I had to stop 3x to put the chain back on the lower jockey wheel after it jumped off, assume it would jump off when the chain went slack. Alignment is perfect.
The semi-good news is that the part is available.
The bad news is it won’t be here for three days.
The good part is that I was able to get home without much trouble. I had to stop 3x to put the chain back on the lower jockey wheel after it jumped off, assume it would jump off when the chain went slack. Alignment is perfect.
The semi-good news is that the part is available.
The bad news is it won’t be here for three days.
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Keep the chain tight!
#339
dot dash
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Considering an ugly, soulless, modern, reinforced plastic, road bike. Someone talk me out of it.
#340
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Steel is real.
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#341
So it is
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#342
shaken, not stirred.
Join Date: Aug 2006
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no. go on. buy the new bike. you know you want to. since my current bike/upgrade fund is non-existant I've got to encourage everyone to spend their hard earned money appropriately.
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#343
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#344
shaken, not stirred.
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Some are. some aren't. beauty in the eye of the beholder and all that.
hopefully they're soulless. So should steel, aluminium, bamboo, etc, etc be. I don't want any bike that's possessed.
yes.
yes.
hopefully they're soulless. So should steel, aluminium, bamboo, etc, etc be. I don't want any bike that's possessed.
yes.
yes.
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#346
Mostly Harmless
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#347
Mostly Harmless
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Bringing this site back to cycling, my eTap rear derailleur snapped the inner jockey wheel side plate of today’s 50 miler. Carbon asplosion.
The good part is that I was able to get home without much trouble. I had to stop 3x to put the chain back on the lower jockey wheel after it jumped off, assume it would jump off when the chain went slack. Alignment is perfect.
The semi-good news is that the part is available.
The bad news is it won’t be here for three days.
The good part is that I was able to get home without much trouble. I had to stop 3x to put the chain back on the lower jockey wheel after it jumped off, assume it would jump off when the chain went slack. Alignment is perfect.
The semi-good news is that the part is available.
The bad news is it won’t be here for three days.
#348
Mostly Harmless
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#349
Mostly Harmless
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I finally installed the carbon bars on my Allez. Internal cable routing. Tres elegant.
#350
dot dash
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