“… The “dirty secret” of the insurance industry is that most denials can be successfully appealed…”

  • Skeezix@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    In an ideal world country, we would have a different system, but we don’t live in an ideal world country, so what I’m shooting for here is incremental progress and making the world country suck a little less,”.

    It’s a good article. Don’t let that American exceptionalism creep into it.

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        2 months ago

        The turn of phrase refers to things that are natural facts, human nature, stuff like that. This one isn’t any of those things, it’s weird to use it to refer to something specific to one country or place.

        • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          “a way of saying or describing something”

          hmm.

          “Rather, Washington’s national security establishment has unthinkingly internalized a Trump-era turn of phrase that is rife with unrealistic expectations and unvetted assumptions.”

          hmmmm.