This happened in Canada, not the US, but I agree with the US healthcare issues you mentioned

“This doctor billed the Ministry for over 23,000 vaccines over 5 days, incorrectly billing the Ministry for $630,000, 21 times their eligible payments.”

Those vaccines were not administered by her or her staff, but by local medical students, and not in her office, both of which apparently go against billing codes.

I’m not sure I agree with seizure of all funds here, and the vaccine clinics did good, but I think the doctor intended to misuse billing codes and I understand why the Ministry wants some money back. There should have been more communication and compromise earlier on. Like, if a doctor bills the province for $100,000 for a day’s services that should raise a flag

You’re not allowed to say that without prefacing it with “scientists suspect” or something similar /s

Dude. You have screwed the people of this province so much to make your buddies wealthier or attract votes on negative politics. I would never vote for you. I would consider voting for you a failure of my moral duty as an Ontarian. Thinking that $200 would change that says so much about the kind of person that you are …unfit to lead this province.

Trump’s disposable to the billionaires electing him. Their guy is JD Vance. Trump’s just being used for the popular support to get the billionaires into the white house

One long-time teacher, who did not want to be identified for fear of professional retribution, said the timing of the email is particularly galling given the audit and the recent $39,000, three-day retreat to the Toronto Blue Jays stadium hotel by school board brass amid a $7.6-million board budget deficit.

“Draft bill attached,” wrote a lobbyist representing two influential fossil fuel trade groups to the lead counsel for the West Virginia state energy committee in January 2020.

Just a friendly reminder that you can block communities you don’t like

Pharmacists ordering lab tests (bloodwork) is a pretty radical expansion of their practice

Most pharmacists I’m pretty sure work for private, mostly corporate companies. This is another effort to further privatize healthcare

I ‘converted’ 1 person, and then she converted 3 generations of her family. I had mentioned something along the lines of “why love one yet eat the other” (e.g., dog and cow/pig/chicken, respectively) a little while before. She approached me and said she was thinking about what I’d said and was re-evaluating how she’s always seen things. I listened non-judgementally. I answered her questions. A little while later, she told me she’d been vegan for X weeks. She loved how the new diet felt on her GI system (never bloated)

I’m not sure what you’re referring to re: name-calling tbh, and I think this thread is an overreaction, but I agree with you that non-private communities have some obligation to civility or something like that

For the record, I think you contribute a lot to Lemmy, and I really appreciate it. OP’s being melodramatic because blocking a community chock full of content they’d rather not see on their personalized feed (and isn’t hateful, illegal, etc.) isn’t good enough for them. I guess they also need to troll and police different perspectives and how many posts they comprise on this great fedi platform. That’s good for Lemmy /s. Someone should post a PSA about blocking communities that don’t break rules but just aren’t one’s cup of tea. The behaviour helps Lemmy grow and stay diverse. For similar reasons, lemmynsfw (ie, the main porn/adult instance) removed downvotes: because minority communities (eg, rarer kinks) were being downvoted into oblivion - stifling growth and frustrating community members and mods - by people downvoting stuff they didn’t like on their feed versus blocking it

I don’t think it’s intended to provoke non-vegan people, I think it’s meant to be a ‘for us, by us’ community. PSA to all: there’s a block community button for communities that are not hateful or illegal (you should report those) but are things you’d prefer not to see on your personalized feeds

I love the Vegan Society! They make a great multivitamin (blackcurrant > orange, imo)

Obligatory @#$% Doug Ford. There’s not too much to this, imo. Back when it was just the LCBO and Beer Store selling alcohol - a special product if you will - the price on the sales tag included HST and bottle deposit, which is unlike most products, like a bag of chips (price on sales tag doesn’t include HST). I think this price labeling thing is just a bit of house-keeping after Ford changed the alcohol sales framework in Ontario (which will definitely reduce provincial revenue and good jobs and probably contribute to a significant uptick in drunk driving–that’s the real story). If alcohol is now sold in convenience stores alongside chips, why should its price be advertised differently (eg, include HST). So, this is probably to make alcohol more consistent with other products (e.g., there’s a fee added to battery sales that aren’t on price tags) in terms of product price labelling.

More important to me is how long the bottle deposit remains and how long the Beer Store continues to accept bottle and can returns now that they’re essentially another convenience or grocery store

International coffee chains moving away from their role as third places highlights the enduring value of libraries and their essential function in healthy communities. That’s what makes the library so special: they are there to serve the public. Whether you want to work on your laptop, use the computers to watch fight videos on TikTok, or conceivably even borrow a book, it is the one place that anyone can go for as long as they like, so long as they don’t cause trouble.

Premier Doug Ford, when he was a Toronto city councillor, once notoriously said that he would close a library “in a heartbeat” within his Etobicoke North ward, which he inaccurately claimed had more libraries than Tim Hortons. The province of Ontario has 921 libraries and 1,824 Tim Hortons. The threat to those libraries remains: In 2019, the Southern Ontario Library Service budget was cut by 50 per cent. Following budget shortfalls this year, London is considering closing two libraries; it has already suspended Sunday service for the remainder of the year. We are witnessing the erosion of an irreplaceable resource that the private sector cannot and should not be expected to provide.

Thanks for taking over the reins! This sounds like a neat idea.

I think a sticky post is a good format, because the post rules can be displayed at the top to remind people. Ideally, I think those would be as succinct as possible, and I’m happy to help. “This is not debate a vegan” might be a good one. I think it’s okay if the rules evolve over time as new issues come to light (lol). I’m not sure the ‘juice will be worth the squeeze’ for the proposed flair system. But I think the point is something along the lines of identifying what the poster’s diet/lifestyle is and/or what diet/lifestyle their post is in reference to. That could be a rule/recommendation. I’m trying to describe the types of good faith questions: information, advice, experiences, opinions and perspectives. I like your examples! You could put them in a spoiler, so the post rules are succinct but there’s more info for those want it.

Thanks for spreading the word about this. I wasn’t aware. What an unfortunate development. I’ve never encountered mandatory FR in Canada, thank goodness

Bless the EU

Stands up and starts clapping