I know someone who works in UHC’s appeals department. They do in fact overturn the majority of denials which are appealed. Might just be selection bias, though, with only those who have the least ambiguous situations bothering to appeal.
Anyone else get a minor heart attack reading those first four words for a post at the very top of your feed?
And on top of that, they’re predictable hundreds of years in advance. We’ve known exactly when and where this eclipse was going to happen since before her grandparents were born. But somehow it’s a bad omen.
Here’s a better article that isn’t as uncritically sensationalist.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/de-extinction-company-announces-that-the-dire-wolf-is-back/
tl;dr is that it’s basically just a gray wolf with 14 edited genes, most of which are from natural gray wolf populations rather than dire wolf genomes. The result is a gray wolf that’s visually similar to a dire wolf, not a dire wolf.