#sorry harvey i'm imagining that martingale is now just

[not-poignant]

Alex 🤝 FFS Ef: trying to convince their healthcare providers to not provide a sliding scale fee

The healthcare providers like 'omg how do I deal with these guys, seriously.'

Look is it my dream for all of my healthcare providers to charge me less because they take one look at me and know I could do with a break? Yes. Yes it is. Do I get to repeatedly live that out in fanfiction? Yes. Yes I do.

Fictional worlds get to be (slightly) more merciful than the real world, when I'm writing them, lmao.

(Also honestly I have had healthcare providers do this. Not always, but enough that like... I know how that mercy feels. I once burst into tears because of it. We have *some* free healthcare and then some *very expensive* healthcare. This is a place where I get my cancer treatment free but have to pay $650 outright to see my psychiatrist for the initial appointment, and then $350 for every subsequent 15 minutes. Without insurance, that's just...painful - but like without it, I think I'd be dead maybe so).

Anyway, yeah, living my fantasy life through these characters and I'm sure a few other folks who have dealt with needing to pay for healthcare are doing the same fsaldkjfdas