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Dear Imprudence: Getting It Right! (For Once!)

By abby jean on 16 July, 2010

s.e. smith recently passed on a question from a Dear Prudence column (3rd question down) that, well, actually gets things right. We were both pretty surprised! The question asked is shockingly similar to my own situation, but I swear I didn’t write in to ask it. The questioner writes: I work in a social-services-related field and [...]

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Medicaid: I’m Sorry, Did You Want Social Services With That?

By s.e. smith on 25 December, 2009

While doing some unrelated research for work recently, I happened upon some information about Medicaid transportation services in Oregon which I found rather fascinating. And also rather annoying. Medicaid will, it turns out, pay for medical transportation for appointments covered by Medicaid (of course, this assumes that “transportation” can take any number of forms, including [...]

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The Perils of Social Media: How Insurance Companies Use Twitter, Facebook, and the Rest of the Internet to Deny Benefits

By s.e. smith on 19 December, 2009

Insurance companies are very fond of finding ways to avoid paying out any money on behalf of their customers. In fact, they employ people who are actually specialists at that sort of thing, and these people will go to great lengths to prevent their employers from having to pony up. Many people are aware that [...]

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