[guest post by Dana]

So, two sisters at a baseball game not only decided it was their business to spy on the woman in front of them and read her text messages, they also took it upon themselves to disrupt a marriage of 29 years:

Two sisters attending a baseball game claim that they exposed a man’s cheating wife after catching her running the bases with another man on her cellphone.

Photos taken over the woman’s shoulder during Wednesday night’s Atlanta Braves game showed the unidentified woman appearing to sext someone in between cuddling with her man.

Delana and Brynn Hinson posted photos of her texts on Twitter, Brynn writing: “These hoes ain’t loyal so we expose em.”

The texts included declarations of love and some were sexual in nature.

Upon leaving the stadium, the sisters handed the unaware husband a note:

“Your wife is cheating on you. Look at the messages under Nancy! It’s really a man named Mark Allen,” it read.

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At least two photos taken over the woman’s shoulder shows racy messages sent to a ‘Nancy.’ They later appear to refer to the person on the other end as ‘Mark Allen.’

One of the sisters further provided her phone number on the note, saying she took photos of her phone and can share them if the texts are deleted.

“We handed it to him as they were walking away.. She was in front of him.. He quit walking and gave us a thumbs up,” Delana, who lists herself as a criminal justice major online, said on Twitter.

As a result of being informed of his wife’s texting, the husband apparently contacted them for evidence of her infidelity. After providing him with photos, the husband told the sisters that he appreciated that they had told him what was taking place.

And most ironically, this from one of the sisters:

After I sent him the pictures, we didn’t talk… I don’t think he’s confront her yet.

I want to ask him, but it’s not my place.

The sisters have been lauded for their interference intervention involvement, as well as criticized for putting their noses where they didn’t belong.

–Dana

[guest post by Dana]

As most readers know, that innovative private taxi company upstart, Uber, has been taking a lot of hits lately from the left which tends to frown upon competition, no matter how much it benefits Americans. Now another innovative idea has arrived, on-demand doctor apps that bring the “Uber approach” to medicine:

House calls were once commonplace in the U.S. Today, 9 out of 10 general practitioners say they do not typically make house calls, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians.

But new phone apps may signal a comeback for house calls.

Pager is currently only available in New York City but it will expand to San Francisco in coming weeks. A rival company on the West Coast, Heal, already operates in San Francisco, Orange County and L.A

Gaspard de Dreuzy, one of Pager’s three co-founders, says the services’ typical customers are working mothers ages 30 to 45.

“It’s really an urban population that is busy and values its time,” he adds.

So much so that they are willing to pay a premium. Like other services, Pager is not currently covered by insurance. Customers pay a $50 fee for their first visit and $200 for subsequent visits from one of the company’s 40 health practitioners, including doctors, nurses and physician assistants.

That fee is about 10 times more than the typical $15 to $25 doctor co-pay for patients with insurance. But there are situations where a Pager visit might be cheaper than conventional care. For instance, $200 is significantly cheaper than the median cost of an emergency room visit: $505, according to federal figures. The ER is often the only medical option for people without insurance.

“We’re trying to move forward to a model where the Pager service will be as affordable as any other care option for people who are insured or not,” de Dreuzy says.

Some medical professionals are wary of the idea and cite potential drawbacks:

Dr. Robert Wergin of Milford, Nebraska says on-call services could be useful for one-time medical needs. But treating chronic conditions like diabetes, arthritis or Alzheimer’s requires careful, consistent attention over many years. A doctor responding to a phone app may not be familiar with a patient’s family history, medications, allergies and other critical details.

“If these apps develop and they further fragment care it’s not going to help the health care delivery system. We’ll get more of what we already have: higher costs and lower quality,” says Wergin, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Other experts worry about doctors making appropriate prescribing decisions when patients are paying $100 or more for their services.

“The visit becomes much more transactional,” says Dr. Jonah Feldman, a specialist in health care delivery at Winthrop University Hospital. “And it will be much harder for that doctor to come out of that visit without giving some kind of treatment, and that exposes patients to the risks of overtreatment.”

But there is also good news in that traditional medicine and on-demand doctor business can co-habitate:

The sector’s oldest company, Medicast, founded in 2013, recently abandoned its direct-to-consumer model in favor of collaborating with large hospital networks. The company recently helped Providence Health & Services — a medical system in the Pacific Northwest — launch its own house call app for the Seattle area.

Medicast CEO and co-Founder, Sam Zebarjadi says the company is working with a dozen other hospital systems on similar offerings. Previously the company operated its own doctor networks in Miami, Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego. But Zebarjadi says he found that consumers have “a really big issue around trust, which is one of the reasons we decided to start partnering with hospitals and health systems.”

These collaborations may also further another key goal: getting insurance coverage. Like Pager, Medicast is currently a cash service. The company offers to file the bill for a house call with a patient’s insurance provider, to see if they are willing to cover it. But in coming months Zebarjadi expects some insurance providers to begin covering Medicast visits.

–Dana