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Unfortunate that you cannot get additional damages against them. That sort of behaviour really needs to be heavily punished -- say, forcing them to cover every single CPAP prescribed for the next year for free, with the executives having to personally pay if the company can't afford to.

Byzantine processes when dealing with medical issues should be punished with Byzantine punishments.

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Byzantine punishments were more along the lines of castration and facial amputation.

Who's to say we can't get a little retro?

Little late for the new year's stuff, but let's party like it's 499!

Reminds me of the funniest Crusader Kings bug of all time—a performance issue where the game laboriously calculated over and over again whether or not every character in the Byzantine Empire wanted to blind every other character in the Byzantine Empire.

I loved that bug. To the point that I actually spent a (probably unnecessary) number of hours QC'ing it to try to figure out what was causing it. I didn't manage to figure out that it was the blinding check that was a problem, but I did discover that if you basically murdered all the people in the Byzantine empire, or you elimited the cultures that allowed blinding people, your game perf would go way up.

So I made a little personal mod that immediately castrated (if there was something to castrate) and blinded all characters of the Byzantine empire on game start, and it seemed to solve the problem.

In most places you can at least get back the court fees (which are typically a few hundred bucks).

Unfortunately sometimes you can't get back the court fees, and in situations like that, rather than spending $3000 on some new medical gear and battling insurance I would be very tempted to go to eBay, buy it 2nd hand from someone for $150, and just use that. Better time/effort/money/result tradeoff IMO.

eBay is pretty good at enforcing their policy banning sales of medical equipment requiring a prescription. They yank any listing for a CPAP very quickly.

Took me literally 30 seconds to find one:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/404778680293

They even have a category for "Medical equipment > ventilators". If they do have such a policy, they enforce it very poorly.

I guess it varies by country. In the US they pull CPAP listings very quickly.

Policy: https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-ite...

A lot of stuff is over the counter now so why aren't cpaps and other durable (overpriced) medical equipment?

I don't want to get back just my court fees. If I could have it, heads would roll, but in lieu of that, I will take severe personal penalties to all those involved. Their tunes will change really frakking quick if the consequence is being put out on the street (or worse) for frakking around with people's medical coverage.

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