So .. I think there might be a dispute between health insurance companies and these AI doctors .
The insurance companies aren't going to pay for this.
They barely will pay for telemedicine as it is.
They won't pay for anything they aren't legally required to pay for.
They won't pay for any service unless a court review would say it was medically necessary, and even then, they trying to not pay if they think the person is too poor to take them to court over it.
As much as I hate the greedy bastards. They have also protected us from a lot of pseudoscience health care.
Okay well that definitely helps explain some of it.
I still think inflation has been much higher than most report for the last 2-3 years. Even after discounting the covid spikes.
Autism is caused by a lot of things that impact genes.
But the biggest is the fathers age.
Maybe young men should start storing their sperm at age 20 for when they decide if/when to have kids.
As much as the mano sphere likes to say women are expired at 30. The truth is, in regards to fertility, we have perfect eggs our entire life.
But male sperm declines fast. And not only that. Sperm count has decreased by like 50% or something in 50 years. Probably pollution.
But I'm not here to say men expire at 25. Because men have more value than their sex cells , just like women.
I am here to say that this knowledge could be used to reduce the risk of genetic errors and miscarriages.
As much of a proponent I am for neurodivergent people, a large chunk of people with autism are not high functioning and have moderate to severe cognitive problems.
Let's try our best to bring healthy children into this world.
That's not supported. Those errors are not significant until the woman is nearing 40 and after.
At which point, most women are not having pregnancies.
Also there is a specific error associated with eggs. It has to do with chromosome numbers. Is specific to disorders like downs syndrome and miscarriage. Called "aneuploidy".
Whereas sperm dna declines faster with age and is more prone to damage/changes from environmental factors like diet, exposure to chemicals, and the like.
I suppose if someone was planning or at least considering the possibility of having biological children after age 35 (mother and/or father) then it would be realistic to save back sperm and egg from an earlier age to reduce multiple types of risk.
That's why it's crazy the GOP is like "Tylenol causes autism" and says that generally we don't know what causes autism.
Yes we do.
We have for a long time.
There is an insane amount of research on this. And still ongoing.
Now that's not to say it's 100% fraternal. It's not.
Babies are born from a pairing of DNA.
The relationship with mothers and autism is a lot more complex and the effect strength varies on a combination of many factors.
It's a bit simpler for fathers.
Now before it sounds like I'm blaming sperm for all the human health problems I want to point out that nature designed sperm to be susceptible to fast DNA changes.
Mutations are the way evolution occurs.
Without one of the sex cells having the ability to change dna relatively "quickly", the evolution changes of the organism may be too slow to adapt to new environments and may go extinct
Everything is how it should be.
But that doesn't mean we can't use modern medicine and science to help bring in healthier children.
In the olden times when we were evolving into homo sapiens, life span was much shorter. Men weren't typically fathering children in their 50s and 60s.
I should have said we have perfect DNA eggs during our pregnancy lifespan. I'm not sure how to phrase it. The age range of when average women have pregnancies. 20-35.
Also the aneuploid egg thing is a very specific type of degrading. It more often results in miscarriages. Though sometimes children are born with a missing chromosome from this type of errors.
Well neither sex is "expired" at 30. Because people have much higher value than their breeding potential.
But in terms of passing on the best of yourself to your offspring, . Yeah there is a loss of quality over time.
That quality loss might be higher in males (,because of sperm properties) but ultimately yes, it would be better to save eggs and sperm from an age before 30.
I wouldn't choose a partner based on how old they are though. There are much more important factors like if they would be a good parent.
So something weird happened to me twice recently at a grocery store.
Firstly. It's a local mid level grocery store in a medium sized city (we have 3 Walmarts, for scale).
I don't go there often because it's more expensive than other grocery stores. But it's also the closest one to me. And huge. So they do have everything. But it's not like a fancy gourmet grocery store that offers wine samples or anything.
Anywho.
I went there and bought like 4 things.
It was easy to remember how much each item was since I only bought 4 things.
When I went to do self checkout , 3 of those items ran up 50 cents to 1 dollar cheaper than the price tag.
I don't use a saver card or anything.
The 4th item happened to be a deli item. It was the price it had on it. Cause those literally have a sticker on them.
I thought. Weird how 3 items ran up the wrong price.
I go back 2 weeks later. Same exact thing happens.
Different items. Everything except the two deli items I bought were pricing at 50 cents or 1$ cheaper than listed.
I paid extra attention this time because of the last experience.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm paranoid. Seeing manipulation where there is none.
But this can't just be a coincidence.
I don't go there often.
I use the self checkout.
Is it using facial recognition to see I'm a "new" customer. And charging me less so I feel like my bill is lower than expected so I will return ,?
Am I taking crazy pills ?
Someone tell me I'm wrong and that theory is absurd.
My debit card. But see, the price rang up wrong before I paid.
That's why I suspected face recognition. I noted the price was wrong as the items were initially rang up and that there was no indication on the receipt of a discount, coupon, or sale.
I considered that prices had been changed and the price tags not updated yet. But all 3 items the first time. And then all the other different items the second time?
So the price was wrong on literally everything I bought except the deli items.
And it was consistently off. Everything was 50 cents or 1 dollar cheaper.
Technically 49 cents and 99 cents.
For instance I grabbed some cheap pot pies. 1.49. They rang up 1.00.
I bought a pack of popcorn 4.99. It rang up 4.00.
I think to fully test this I could buy the exact same items. Go through self checkout.
Do it again and go through the cashier and pay in cash.
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