Mistress Ghoulina

The Peaceful Pygmy Sunfish, Family Elassomatidae

Looking to set up a small North American-themed tank with some colorful and interesting fish? The pygmy sunfish may be just what you are looking for. They are opposites to the centrarchid sunfish in many ways… being tiny, timid, and slightly more demanding in terms of water quality, but are striking fish that can be kept in smaller display tanks.

Who else in the USA would be interested in a spreadsheet organized by state & hospital that lists each hospital’s no-insurance, out-of-pocket costs for common procedures?

Because we could make that. We could literally crowdsource this info and put it together as a common resource.

Hospitals have tools online that list out those costs, but they are terrible. Absolutely fucking terrible and time-consuming to compare with other hospitals, which is absolutely on purpose. 

But! if people filled this out together, everybody doing a little bit (like when you yourself are looking something up), we could make a communal resource that helps people in the USA compare costs for procedures between hospitals.

Here’s an example I made comparing the same procedure at 2 different hospitals in Oregon:

in case that’s hard to see, here’s just the costs:

that’s terrible! 

imagine not knowing you had a choice that could save you $300!

we can make something better for each other, because our corrupt, for-profit capitalist healthcare system ain’t gonna do it for us!