No, they use children as an excuse to strip the rights of #Bodily_autonomy away from women, as just another stepping stone to give more power to the state and less to the people.
#UniversalHealthcare is necessary for Americans' wellbeing & survival. Profiteering off poorer health outcomes for the insured is...
If you're enrolled in an Aetna MDCR Advantage plan:
WS isn't happy with Aetna’s parent, CVS Health. CEO admitted: paying more claims than usual. CVS execs have promised to do whatever it takes to get profit margins back -likely: Aetna will: refuse to cover some treatments & meds,⬆️your premiums next year, & might dump you.
⚕️ Sigh. One step forward, two steps back. Good overview in this short blog:
"The typical non-subsidized health plan for this family would consume over 40 percent of their pre-tax income. Most people would have their mortgage application rejected by a bank if their mortgage payment made up this share of their income. "
Happy Dental Care Day Canada!! (at least if you're over 70 without private insurance)
I hope that in time this will become part of universal single-payer healthcare (along Drug Coverage) and eliminate private insurance for health needs, but it's a start at least. And it happened because a centre-left party, the NDP, has an agreement to work with the minority government.
Priced out of America
Kelli María Korducki Apr 17, 2024
Why more and more Americans are deciding that the only way to get ahead is to leave. Americans are discovering that their income can stretch much further in other countries, allowing them to save, pay down debts, and get ahead.
"...Retirement wasn't even on our radar when we were still in the US," Stonestreet told me. "We just assumed we'd work till we dropped. But life is short. Tomorrow's not guaranteed."
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.
😷💉#Covid, viruses... Universal healthcare, worker sick pay, ventilation/filtered air in workplaces, schools..., masks in crowded spaces... esp. HC facilities...
"People who say "we can't live in a bubble" don't understand how much less disease there would be if hybrid attendance options & universal, where possible, & people could actually stay home when sick.
Spreading disease OBVIOUSLY self-defeats the maximization of open living."
-Blake Murcdoch, Health policy scholar
Because it blew me off, misdiagnosed for years. Because I got treated like a nuisance. Because I could rarely get an appointment. Because it almost killed me.
Our insurance provider, Blue Cross, terminated its contract with a large health care provider here in Arizona. That means that we can no longer go to the hospital that is less than 2 miles from our house. We now have to travel more than 7 miles to arrive at an emergency room our insurance will accept.
Now I have to figure out which doctors we can still see.
@LaNaehForaday
Yes. When I purposely selected my neighborhood for its proximity to a hospital, and now the choice to use it is financially unfeasible, I will complain.
People who don't want universal healthcare point to how limited our choices would be. I was trying to point out that the US' current system of health insurance limits our choices more than universal healthcare would.
@FAIR "...if we continue on the path of incremental "progress" begun by the Affordable Care Act, [U.S.] Americans can expect everyone to have health insurance that covers our medical needs without the threat of bankruptcy in about 500 years."
There was an elderly inmate in Hawaii who had HIV. He couldn't walk as fast as a drunk turtle.
He used to shoplift while in close proximity to police so he would intentionally get caught. Once he was in custody he made it clear that he needed medication. Then he went to court and pleaded guilty. He would spend a short while in jail then get released with a 90 day supply of meds for HIV.
When he was almost out of meds, he would repeat the process. The old man was using the justice system to stay alive because he couldn't pay for his meds.
It would have been cheaper for the state to just give him free meds without the justice system and courts, but that would be "socialism" and we can't have that.
Hawaii had a Republican governor at the time.
California should be ashamed that they let a man die for an insurance company to make money.
I've been treated by more than one #universalhealthcare system. Good UH does well with straightforward diagnoses, but it always struggles with the complex stuff because those in charge deprioritize edge case care. UH simply isn't often equipped to pursue care for complex cases.
Bad UH is... horrifying. Combining liability shields with zero accountability and a system designed to protect staff above all else literally kills patients. I'm alive because the mistakes of a bad UH system did not QUITE kill me, but damn if it was not close.
For-profit healthcare is broken, absolutely. People should not have to beg for life saving care. Me, I'd prefer non-profit, independent care over both.
American adults! You all now have access to a FREE, 24/7 ON DEMAND TELEHEALTH system for #COVID19 and influenza so you can get prescribed #Paxlovid or anti-flu medications, any time, day or night, that you test positive.
Anyone in the US who is 18 or older can use the telehealth service to talk to a prescriber if they test positive for flu or COVID.
AND! As a special service for those who are poor, old, or a veteran, they will also ship you free COVID and flu tests if you want. Sign up in the same system.
Florida fascist Republican death-cult governor Ron DeathSantis approves plan to import cheaper pharmaceutical drugs from country with price-regulated, woke, pinko-commie universal healthcare, but refuses woke, pinko-commie federal healthcare subsidies (Medicaid) to cover low-income Floridians.
US big pharma responds with warning: If your fascist, healthcare-denying US state imports the identical drugs we sell for less to different country with price-regulated, woke, pinko-commie universal healthcare, these drugs will “pose a serious danger to public health.”
Oy, just found out my doctor of the past 15 years will no longer be in-network next year. So, I guess this is it. Gotta find a new doc. This is the insanity of the US healthcare system. You're tethered to jobs to have decent healthcare; but, then a doctor could up and leave a network for whatever reason. It shouldn't be like this. Relationships with healthcare providers shouldn't be fly-by-night and a function of whether or not they accept your private insurance. #universalhealthcare
Record 420,000 patients in England had ‘more than 12 hour wait’ in A&E last year (www.theguardian.com)