It's never been more expensive to insure a car, but coverage barely covers the full personal and societal harm of car crashes, something we all pay for whether we drive or not — and that traffic violence victims subsidize with their life and limb.
if there is one thing Obama should be doing is going out to every Republican state that refused the Medicaid expansion and tell people exactly that and ask them how is their life better for it.
but no, it's easier to act like a fucking uncle Ruckus chastising so-called purists for seeing Biden throw away a re-election.
“Insurance of various different kinds—housing #insurance, but also automobile insurance, and things like that—that’s been a significant source of #inflation over the last few years”
The Great Unwinding: The Failing Battle for Health and Healthcare in These All Too Disunited States
By Liz Theoharis, originally published by Tom Dispatch, March 11, 2024
"Such Medicaid cuts and hospital closures are but two manifestations of a far larger attack on American...healthcare in what’s fast being transformed into a death-dealing nation. They are but harbingers of an even larger “unwinding” of our health as a nation. Before the pandemic and the most recent cuts, 87 million Americans were already uninsured or underinsured. We’re talking about people sharing heart-attack medicine because they can’t afford their own prescriptions, burying their children for lack of healthcare, and relying on emergency rooms rather than preventative care, while going bankrupt in the process.
...In 2022, more than one of every four adults (28% of us) reported delaying or going without...simply because they lacked the ability to pay..."
“In a drastic attempt to protect their beachfront homes, residents in Salisbury, Massachusetts, invested $500,000 in a sand dune to defend against encroaching tides. After being completed last week, the barrier made from 14,000 tons of sand lasted just 72 hours before it was completely washed away”
#Insurance is key in all this - Just came across this article (sharing even though due to paywall i can only read beginning). Jeremy Powell arguing that one reason US #inflation is staying high is that the economy is increasingly uninsurable #ClimateDiary
“In the longer term, companies are withdrawing from writing insurance in some coastal areas”, Powell said.
Leave one insurance grift and sign up for another insurance grift ...
@widehotep9257 wrote:
"800,000 USCCA members X $30/month = $24,000,000 PER MONTH in premiums. That's $288,000,000 PER YEAR in gross revenue! And they refused to pay $200k to defend Giles. Insurance companies ARE NOT your friends."
@lrvick if it’s some sort of IoT device related to your health monitoring, it should be provided by your care team independent of surveillance capitalism.
“Why are there such detailed records of slave ship #insurrections like those on board The Unity in 1770?
The reason why these revolts were documented was for #insurance purposes. So Lloyd’s of London or [another insurance company] would insure slave traders and their ships and their so-called cargo. One of the things they would insure them against was something called the insurrection of cargo—which is crazy if you think about it because how can cargo insurrect?”
"Texans pay some of the highest homeowners insurance premiums in the country. Increased risk of extreme weather events, at least partially driven by climate change, have driven up those costs. " #insurance#climate#Texas#ExtremeWeather
"“When you’re on a limited income, something has to give,” Hester said. “You have to eat and be able to get gas in the car. So that’s what I gave.”
It’s common for families, particularly those that are low-income, in areas destroyed by the Panhandle fires to not have homeowners insurance, local officials and community leaders said. Many simply can’t afford it and, because they own their homes outright, nothing requires them to carry it, they said." #Texas#wildfires#insurance#disasters
3/ Something else they did. The denied my feeding tube supplies and kit last month, which I have been using since April 2012, because during the medical review, they saw a doctor wrote a prescription for an oral drug & didn't put "crush and administer via g-tube" language in the script.
They figured if I could take a drug by mouth, I didn't need a feeding tube.
This is them just being pissy and obtuse. Even their insurance appeal reviewer did a 'smdh.' #MedMastodon#Health#Insurance
#Michigan Lawmaker to Introduce Bill Requiring State #Health Plans to Cover Cutting-Edge #Cancer Treatments
After ProPublica reported on a Michigan insurer that wouldn’t cover a cancer patient’s last-chance treatment, a state lawmaker said he would introduce a measure compelling health plans to cover a new generation of advanced cancer therapies.
Weisselberg, 76, surrendered to the Manhattan prosecutor’s office earlier Mon & entered state court in #handcuffs, wearing a mask, before pleading #guilty to 5 counts of #perjury.
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ProPublica’s reporters want to talk to #MentalHealth providers, health #insurance insiders and #patients as we examine the U.S. mental health care system.
Insurers’ #LNG Support at Odds With Their Climate Ambition, Report Says
"The report highlights an irony in the #insurance industry: While some underwriters are pulling back from traditional coverage areas as #ClimateChange exacerbates wildfires, storms and flooding, they are also continuing to support new fossil-fuel projects expected to operate for decades."
" Environmentalist movement Extinction Rebellion is leading a week-long campaign in the UK targeting the global #insurance industry.
Without insurance cover, drilling for oil and gas would struggle to continue.
“However, what’s really worrying is that they are also insuring new projects that are referred to as #CarbonBombs like the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline,” says Tooze."