"The case started with 5 women the state’s #abortion ban stopped from getting medical care for their complicated pregnancies. The case has since grown to include 20 women and two doctors.
In August, a judge issued an injunction allowing Texans with complicated pregnancies to get an abortion if their doctor made a 'good faith judgment' that it was necessary.
The #Texas Supreme Court overturned that ruling today." #legal
@GottaLaff
What's ironic was that the #GOP killed #MedicareForAll in the 1990s arguing that they didn't want to let the government getting between a patient and their doctor.
I mean, it was a lie back then, but the irony is still there.
Medicare Advantage plans are not only ripping off America's seniors, they are bankrupting physicians and hospitals with their fraudulent scheme of "delay, deny and not pay."
The jig is up: "16% of health systems are planning to stop accepting one or more Medicare Advantage plans in the next two years. Another 45% said they are considering the same but have not made a final decision."
That seems to be pissing off Medicare Advantage CEOs. Sachin Jain, MD, CEO of SCAN Group — one of the nation's largest nonprofit Medicare Advantage companies said, "You're a nonprofit system saying you're no longer going to accept the insurance that low-income people actually have. We'll see how that works out for you."
No, you pathological piece of shit, we'll see how that works out for YOU. These health systems are already not getting paid by your fraudulent system of collecting insurance premiums but denying payment for care. They have nothing to lose. You're a sociopathic predator and you deserve bankruptcy and imprisonment.
14/ My brain fog was so bad I forgot I needed a sleep doc again for like a year. It was pathetic. I had no one looking after me. Was living alone then.
ALSO for me I get VERY OVERSTIMMED w/o Ambien, Trazodone does ZIP, n my sleep doc wants two months of sleep data b4 Ambien LOL
Cardiologist-congestive heart failure, endocarditis, tachycardia. No more coffee bc it gives me mania & tachycardia. Have palpitations even w/o coffee so getting checked for A Fib next month
An #Ohio woman who left a toddler at home to go on a 10 day vacation has been sentenced to life in prison after the toddler died. There was no excuse for what the woman did. But this was a tragedy waiting to happen. She had depression and mental health issues. #MedicareForAll will mean people can get help without charge and without the stigma. And Ohio was a forced pregnancy state at the time, which means that unwanted children are born & subject to abuse like this. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/19/ohio-toddler-murder-vacation-kristel-candelario/
Even if one believes that life begins at conception, endangering the lives of pregnant mothers is not the way to end abortion. More medical research is necessary so that medical professionals can prevent triploidy (where the fetus has 69 chromosomes instead of 46) or Down's Syndrome. We need free college so that anybody who wants to enter the medical field and protect human life can do so. And we need #MedicareForAll so that people can afford help. https://ncnewsline.com/2024/03/09/both-of-these-women-needed-to-end-their-pregnancies-only-one-got-to-do-it-on-her-terms/
Related: Any politician or insurance salesman that says "you can pick your own insurance company" in our current system, and that's why we shouldn't have #MedicareForAll like every other civilized country, is a lying turd, a baldfaced liar, a charlatan, and a threat to America.
The US cannot claim to be a civilized country until the health insurance industry is utterly destroyed and replaced with a national system. Liars and all.
We should federalize #medicaid We can close the coverage gap in the ten holdout red states so that millions of working poor can be insured.
We could create a "Diamond" tier #ACA plan with no deductibles or co-pays that includes dental/vision/hearing benefits and offer it to anyone up to 138% of the federal poverty level. It can be offered on a sliding scale to everyone else through the exchanges.
Who could have predicted this?😒 It’s time to nationalize these companies when their profiteering costs lives.
“Drugmakers including Pfizer, Sanofi and Takeda Pharmaceutical plan to raise prices in the United States on more than 500 unique drugs in early January, according to data…” #MedicareForAll
Profit is antithetical to positive healthcare outcomes. Period. End of story.
Researchers examined Medicare claims for 662,095 patients at 51 different hospitals owned by private equity firms and compared the outcomes to those of more than 4 million hospitalizations at 259 hospitals that were not owned by private equity firms:
At private equity firm hospitals:
25.4% increase in hospital-acquired conditions
27% increase in falls
38% increase in central line infections despite performing 16% fewer percutaneous central lines
100% increase in surgical site infections despite 8% fewer surgeries
And all despite treating younger and therefore presumably healthier patients
thanks. am seeing an uptick of laid-off people posting desperate pleas for money and it made me wonder: have they done their due diligence getting their unemployment benefits and finding out what services they have available?
given the demographics —most coming from high income industries in tech— and the toxic techbro culture, i don't think most young tech workers even know their unemployment rights.
Holy moly if we had #MedicareForAll there would be a hundred thousand financialization specialists out of work.
Vulture capitalists would lose billions from their consolidation frenzies.
Insurance and care monopolies would be screwed.
I mention this just to list the powerful moneied interests that would 1) fight and then 2) modify to atrociousness any and 3) fight it in court any attempt by the people to do their own bidding.
This is great. It really is. Now for step 2 let’s have #MedicareForAll or some type of universal #SinglePayer FULL coverage so that #MedicalDebt no longer occurs.
Just got my new COVID vaccination. Thank you, science. Screw you, Ron DeSantis.
And WTF, Aetna: You are not covering the booster (or the RSV vaccine)??? Don't tell me you care about our health. Shame on you.
🗣️ GO READ AUDRE LORDE's CANCER DIARIES, A RAY OF LIGHT
read it way before this #cancer scare am still in the middle of and let me tell you'nother sumthing:
🗣️ NOW I GET WHY SHE SAID SURVIVING & THRIVING IS POLITICAL WARFARE
if capitalists want to deny us the right to health care, the right to food, the right to shelter, THE RIGHT TO OUR LIFE, then they just want us dead. and that's not just #eugenics and #ClassWar, it's #fascism