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Well known health influencer explains how to fight back health insurance denials in United States.

  • explains (in simyle terms) how insurance companies work.
  • shows basic steps to create a solid appeal.
  • recommends some online tools (AI based) to craft the appeals.
  • certified_expert@lemmy.worldOP
    1·
    2 hours ago

    You are presenting an ad hominem argument. Do you have anything actually meaningful to bring to the discussion other than your self-righteousness?

    My argument is this:

    First: America is named after the italian cartographer Amerigo Vispucci. He is attributed to be the first to realize America was not India, as Columbus thought. This happened long before the country even existed.

    Second: The name of the country IS United States of America. The word “of” literally means that the group of states is in or belongs to America. Therefore, America cannot be the country itself.

    Third: There are plenty of other examples of continents with geographical subdivisions:

    • East Europe and Europe.
    • South-east Asia and Asia.
    • South Africa and Africa.

    Indeed, there are different types of sub-divisions. For example in America:

    • cultural/linguistic: latin- and anglo-america
    • geographic: north-, central-, south-america. Some also consider the caribean as a same-level distinction.

    None of these divisions create a new continent.

    Fourth: The shorthand “american” was introduced by the french as a quick way to identify the two main variants of English (the language). They started to call the English from England “Anglais”, and the one from this new continent “Anglais américain” or simply “américain”.

    Fifth: in a lighter tone… Would you trust the same country that defends this health “care” system, the imperial units system, and that elected this current president to tell you how to split the world?

    You can see it as pedantic. I see it as respecting the 20+ countries that have to live with this name appropiation. We can of course disagree, but I invite you to bring actual arguments.

    • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      2 hours ago

      Do you have anything actually meaningful to bring to the discussion other than your self-righteousness?

      I did in the first part of my comment. I didn’t provide any links, because you didn’t. If that’s what you want though, fine.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent

      The seven-continent model is taught in most English-speaking countries, including Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and also in Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Suriname, parts of Europe and Africa.

      So together that represents 4.1 billion of the 8.3 billion people on the planet

      The six-continent combined-Eurasia model is mostly used in Russia and some parts of Eastern Europe.

      If we add just Russia to that list, even ignoring the rest of Eastern Europe, we come to 4.2 billion, or over half of the global population now.

      The six-continent combined-America model is taught in Greece and many Romance-speaking countries—including Latin America.

      I’m assuming you’re in Latin America, and that’s why you’re taking this personally. My commentary was simply about you being pedantic about something that doesn’t really matter. The tone of your post seemed to imply that your opinion here was the only correct one… something that clearly isn’t accurate.

      I didn’t realize that half the world combined the Americas, much like it seems you didn’t know that as well given your original post.

      Either way, this discussion is off topic from the original post about Healthcare in the US and ultimately pointless here. I can only assume you came here looking for an argument given the tone of your original post and responses so far, so you can have fun arguing with yourself over pointless delineations that serve no purpose. Have a good day.