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Benjamin Scott
@benjaminscott.bsky.social
writer, editor, type 1 diabetic, queer, worried. working on a book about the insulin crisis. reach out if you have a story to tell: savardb(at)gmail
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the short answer: maybe! they will have a billing department who will almost certainly attempt to start you on a payment plan. however, if you make it VERY clear that you simply can't pay the full amount, then they're incentivized to settle, because if they send it to collections, they make pennies

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writing my masters thesis on American healthcare and a good tip: any nonprofit hospital (most in the US are) has to provide at least some payment relief to patients who make under 4x the poverty limit, which works out to about $58,000 per year. definitely worth asking the billing department!

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my newest staff pick at the bookstore. Alasdair Gray hive, rise up! review here: gibsonsbookstore.com/ben

photo of me, a blonde white dude holding up the book "Poor Things" by Alasdair Gray, featuring Emma Stone on the cover, who is starring in the upcoming film adaptation.
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Congrats! I'm turning in my MFA thesis on Monday!

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dogs: they're good!!

Golden retriever sitting on a rock and smiling for the camera
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girl, praying for you

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just knocked on the bathroom door at the bookstore and the person in there HISSED?!?

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It's so astounding Varda's career included an all-time great run of fiction features in the 60s/70s/80s then also twenty years of otherworldly docs after the millennium. What a gift to us all

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found it! secret's safe with me

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now I'm curious: who edited you for DE?

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Benjamin Scott
@benjaminscott.bsky.social
writer, editor, type 1 diabetic, queer, worried. working on a book about the insulin crisis. reach out if you have a story to tell: savardb(at)gmail
89 followers206 following52 posts