Former reporter pursuing the past. Writing book on language history. Substacking on history, books, stuff. 2020 Pulitzer finalist for investigative journalism.
Dec 21, 2022 • 30 tweets • 14 min read
At what must have been some low point this year, I started collecting the good news of 2022. Here goes. Fin whales making a comeback in the Antarctic. wsj.com/articles/whale…
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Electric car sales are way up -- even with supply-chain pinches. 2/ #goodnews2022nytimes.com/2022/07/14/bus…
May 4, 2021 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale of a nutty health care system. In March 2020 my son hurt himself on the job. He goes to the hospital. They do scans. He's basically OK. Charges = $1,900. 1/
They ask up front if it's a work-related injury, as they should. Yes! he says. But they fail to bill the workers comp plan. Nice. Instead they bill his job-based medical plan, UnitedHealthcare. 2/
Oct 19, 2020 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
1/n Great recent reporting by many newsrooms on aggressive hospital debt collection. We take a new dive, looking at insidious, long-term consequence of hospital lawsuits against patients: property liens. Our latest on hospital bill collection in Virginia. khn.org/news/uva-healt…2/n After we began asking VCU Health last year about suing patients, it & affiliate MCV Physicians said they would release old judgments and cancel ALL liens from court cases going back 20 years. Highly unusual and lots of trouble for the system.
