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When Republicans and the WSJ call out your #greed
The pharmacy-benefit managers, or PBMs, have devised formularies of preferred medicines that encouraged use of higher-priced drugs over lower-priced alternatives, the Republican-led House Committee on Oversight and Accountability found. They promised to control costs, but have instead steered patients toward higher-priced medicines and affiliated pharmacies. #healthcare #HealthcareReform #HCR4US #OnePayerStates
https://www.wsj.com/health/pharma/drug-middlemen-push-patients-to-pricier-medicines-house-probe-finds-80c20fda -
Even the #WSJ admits it: Mail order delivery of prescriptions was supposed to lower consumer prices, but drugs delivered by mail are costing multiples more than those picked up at a store counter.
The US doesn't have #healthcare, we have a health industry.
#Greed #PBM #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #HealthcareReform #HCR4US #OnePayerStateshttps://www.wsj.com/health/pharma/higher-drug-costs-mail-order-prescription-bf37886f
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Williams was hospitalized for a blood infection for three months more than ten years ago during an employment gap when he didn't have health insurance. When the bill went to collections, the debt was $50,000. “They don’t give you a choice in the hospital. ‘If you leave, you’ll die,’ they told me. I didn’t feel like dying,” he said. “I don’t think anyone should have to go into financial ruin to live.”
#HealthcareIsAHumanRight #Healthcare #HCR4US #SinglePayer
https://apnews.com/article/medical-debt-forgiveness-majorities-favor-poll-cc46b73d93dbf883ce9f9f2e07bbfcaf -
Parents with private health coverage in the US now face on average more than $3,000 in medical bills related to a pregnancy and childbirth that aren’t covered by insurance.
Yes, $3,000 to have a baby. And the debt collectors are not kind when they call.
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/babies-come-with-medical-debt/
#Healthcare #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #MothersDay
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A reminder that the US doesn't have #Healthcare, we have a corporate health industry.
From CNBC: UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty told lawmakers that data from 1/3 of Americans could have been compromised in the cyberattack on Change Healthcare, and that the company paid a $22 million ransom to hackers.
Witty became the highest-paid CEO among the major health insurers last year, with $23.5 million in compensation.
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Please boost so anyone in the US with #MedicareAdvantage or any #UnitedHealthcare plans, including #Optum and #NaviHealth can read this article on the algorithms they use to deny your care and what it takes to fight back. #HCR4US #HealthcareIsAHumanRight
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast/attack-of-the-medicare-machines/
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For the last decade, workers at two hospitals in Rhode Island have been trying to care for thousands of patients while answering to an out-of-state, private-equity firm owner with a history of failing to pay the bills. Now, they’re figuring out whether being purchased by a private foundation will make matters better, or worse. Hospitals owned by private-equity firms are struggling nationwide as the companies prioritize profits over patients. #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #HCR4US #Greed #Healthcare
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Business, not health, is the core of US Health Insurance:
Some of the largest publicly traded health insurers - United Healthcare, Elevance, Centene -- raked in the largest investment gains in at least a decade last year, according to a Modern Healthcare analysis of financial filings. These windfalls helped boost finances for insurers contending with headwinds such as higher-than-expected Medicare Advantage spending.
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@StillIRise1963 @birdpoof @Pineywoozle
All of this is exactly why I became a healthcare advocate and activist. My 89-year-old mother-in-law lives with us. I’m at a medical facility with her at least once every three weeks. It has been quite an education. I will spend the rest of my living days trying to reform this horrific, for-profit healthcare system that we live under. #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #HCR4US #OnePayerStates #HealthcareReform
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"Serious mental illness and addiction have a profound effect on families and communities, but their complexity and their concentration among lower-income people make them issues that the private market has little incentive to solve."
Which is why profit should have no place in #healthcare.
#HealthcareIsAHumanRight #HCR4US #HealthcareReform
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/29/mental-health-care-funding-addiction-illness
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More than 55% of rural US hospitals no longer offer maternity care. Insurance reimbursements to hospitals for births are such that hospitals must deliver 3 babies a day to break even on the cost of maintaining obstetrics. #Profit does not belong in #healthcare. #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #HCR4US #OnePayerStates
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/23/maternity-care-rural-hospitals-states-map-cuts
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Only 2 state insurance commissioners release healthcare denial data. In other states it is held as private information or not collected. It is crucial for someone buying insurance to know whether their choice pays 97% of the time or 50% of the time. Your choice of insurer may be a life and death decision or may portend bankruptcy.
Ask your state legislators and governors to release claims denial data.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-often-do-health-insurers-deny-patients-claims?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
#Healthcare #HealthInsurance #HealthcareReform
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In 2010, 46.5 million Americans had no health insurance. Today that number is close to 26 million. 8 percent of the population is still uninsured and many of the people who have health insurance still find it difficult to cover their share of their medical bills.
#HealthcareIsAHumanRight #Healthcare #AffordableHealthcare #HCR4US #OnePayerStates
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"For years, vital decisions about who got medical care coverage took place in back offices at health insurance companies. Now, some of those life-altering decisions are being made by artificial intelligence programs."
Medical decisions should be between you and your doctor. For-profit insurance should have no place in #healthcare
#HCR4US #OnePayerStates #HealthcareIsAHumanRight