government incompetence

07 Jun 2023

San Francisco’s Medical Billing Nightmare: How I Fought Unaccountable Bureaucracy

by Elliot Mae Imagine this. You took the wrong dose of a prescribed medication. You’re disoriented and kind of panicking. You have the wherewithal to call Poison Control. Poison Control tells you to call 911. The 911 operator sends a couple of storybook EMTs to your Trendyloin studio apartment. They

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Pox rash on a Caucasian person's back.
12 Jul 2022

What the Monkeypox Outbreak Means for You

Monkeypox is here, and it’s making us forget the most shaping factor of our lives: we are all reflections of each other. Who we are and what we make represents our ideas of what is well and unwell. How we see ourselves and how we feel about our health creates

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08 Oct 2024

The November 2024 BAS Voter Guide

A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But

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29 Mar 2017

10 People Who Would Run HUD Better Than Ben Carson

Ben Carson is in charge of the United States’ Department of Housing and Urban Development. That means that Secretary Carson (blech) oversees the government’s Public and Indian Housing Programs, Equal Opportunity and Fair Housing programs, and several other programs meant to bring equality and justice to all. This is the

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