#singlepayernow — Public Fediverse posts
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More Medicaid considerations, focusing on the illustration of Idaho and the arrangements of Indian Health Service to cover 100% of costs via Medicaid.
#Medicaid #Idaho #singlePayerNowhttps://open.substack.com/pub/marktrahant/p/seventy-five-million-lies?r=ct3l&utm_medium=ios
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You can't see a Dr if you aren't rich or have expensive insurance . Upfront payment required. Cleveland clinic. American healthcare is a scam .. non profits are making millions in profits and here is the outcome. #taxtherich #HealthEquity #singlepayernow
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Universal Healthcare Now!
(We're not getting even the meagre benefits of things going on in the inadequate way of the past. We may as well start demanding what we really want and need.)
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UnitedHealth CEO's killing unleashes social media rage against insurers
https://www.axios.com/2024/12/05/unitedhealth-brian-thompson-killing-health-insurers-social-media
"When you shoot one man in the street it's murder. When you kill thousands of people in hospitals by taking away their ability to get treatment you're an entrepreneur,"Murder and Social Murder: The Case of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/12/murder-and-social-murder-the-case-of-unitedhealth-ceo-brian-thompson.htmlUnitedHealth uses faulty AI to deny elderly patients medically necessary coverage, lawsuit claims
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/unitedhealth-lawsuit-ai-deny-claims-medicare-advantage-health-insurance-denials/How UnitedHealth harnesses its physician empire to squeeze profits out of patients
https://pnhp.org/news/how-unitedhealth-harnesses-its-physician-empire-to-squeeze-profits-out-of-patients/Title of Book About Insurance Companies Matches Bullet Casings at Crime Scene
https://www.thedailybeast.com/title-of-book-about-insurance-companies-matches-brian-thompson-bullet-casings-at-midtown-hilton/The Coup, 5 Million Ways To Kill A C.E.O.
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The beginning of the final thread that @Tinu posted here, giving an update on her medical status and her #battles with her insurance company and her medical treatments:
https://mastodon.social/@Tinu/113112518839888233
May the predatory insurance system see some retributive justice for what they did to her.
#WarDAMNTinu #ForTinu #FuckCancer #LongCOVIDSUCKS #SinglePayerNOW
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This is ridiculous! The US has the worst healthcare system of all developed countries - more expensive and worse outcomes!
Why California Health Care Costs More in Monterey Than LA
Prices for the same hospital services vary wildly, with no relation to quality, researchers have found.
From hospital to hospital, prices for the same service vary wildly, with no relation to quality, researchers have found. In Monterey County, California, local employers and unions have long decried the prices charged by the local hospitals.
#healthcare #healthcarecosts #hospitalcosts #singlepayernow
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-09-04/hospital-price-discrepancies-drive-health-care-premiums-higher?cmpid=BBD090424_prognosis -
ways to resist medical gaslighting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH3iSKanN7s1. have someone with you at medical appointments
2. write things down while you're with the dr.
3. diary at home: track symptoms
4. ask the medical professional to sit down; ask if you can get dressed again for the conversation -
> I run a website that hosts popularity contests where if you lose, you die. Would you be doing alright?
God the CEO sketches are so good. This one in particular is amazing.
Dropout: https://www.dropout.tv/videos/gofundme-ceo-we-could-use-a-few-fun-ones
YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIsXEkR5OVs
#BrennanLeeMulligan #DropoutTV #CollegeHumor #CEO #SketchComedy #GoFundMe #SinglePayerNow #MedicareForAll
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The Council for National Policy's Project 2025 'Mandate for Leadership' chapter on HHS
argues that because the CDC has been doing public health badly (which it has! though not in the ways they say) it should stop doing it at all.(They're really pissed their church was closed on Xmas in 2020)
For more about the CNP and their theocratic Xtian Nationalist agenda, see Bad Faith https://www.badfaithdocumentary.com/
#BadFaith #Fascism #CovidIsNotOver #SinglePayerNow #VaxToTheMax
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The Council for National Policy's Project 2025 'Mandate for Leadership' section on health care has all the awful things you'd expect from them--restrictions on abortion and gender affirming care, deregulation of the health insurance industry and further privatizing of medicare, and more! They want work requirements for medicaid, more use of AI in healthcare, and of course No more mask mandates, no more recommendations from the CDC. It's a nightmare.
But we know that masking works to reduce spread of Covid-19 and other diseases.
https://kolektiva.social/@anarchademic/112487577386186629We also know that a rapidly mutating virus for which we lack good vaccine protection is *all the more reason* for universal masking.
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So, Eric Topol thinks medical use of AI might reduce the rate of diagniostic errors, which apparently kill or permanently disable about 800,000 americans each year.
But another thing that might reduce the rate of diagnostic errors would be physicians spending more time with each patient (you know, listening to them, thinking about the patient's case history, doing a little research).
This, apparently is not an option, presumably because there is more money in forcing doctors to rush through each patient consultation and spend more time on insurance paperwork, and someone will be making more money from the AI systems.
In a better world (or even a better nation-state than the US), education would be free, including medical school, and we could have more doctors and no one would be trying to extract every last penny out of the medical-industrial complex.
But in a better world we would also not have let the latest pandemic run rampant and cause brain damage that surely only makes it harder for doctors to think.
#CovidIsNotOver
#SinglePayerNow
#UniversalHealthcare
#M4Ahttps://erictopol.substack.com/p/toward-the-eradication-of-medical
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What national tragedy. Our Olympic champion dying from pneumonia because she has no health insurance. #MaryLouRetton #singlepayernow
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"$31,065: That’s the 2023 cost of healthcare for a hypothetical family of four covered by a PPO plan through their employer."
We should be ashamed that we let this happen. #SinglePayerNow
https://us.milliman.com/en/insight/2023-milliman-medical-index
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@fizzlesticks Funny, Health Alliance told me today that my insurance will not cover medication for the condition which leads to me taking a number of other medication and puts my health at risk in a wide variety of ways #singlepayernow
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ICYMI: Video essay on crisis in pediatric health care:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/04/opinion/covid-flu-rsv-children-hospitals.html#universalhealthcare #singlepayernow #healthcare #pediatric #publichealth #medicaid
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Oh well. I loved 2023 for a day, and then realized that it's not a whole new year, it's a whole new deductible
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#RIP Native American surf rock guitarist Dick Dale who toured 'til the end cuz otherwise he'd die. #musicmonday #singlepayernow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbOV-UQI8yQ
